>>713382697>I wouldn't fault colonizationI would.
Cultures arise from the needs of the people.
Every culture in existence formed out of the desires of its population.
The Middle East arose as independent microstates because that is how they function. Eastern Europe needs a strongman leader or they start killing each other. Look at how quickly Yugoslavia fell apart after Tito died. Asians build strict social hierarchies. Africans rely on corporal punishment for crimes.
To have some dumbfuck from another land come in and start smashing termite mounds because he thinks they should build spiderwebs only serves to undo hundreds of thousands of years of biologically subconscious, and tens of thousands of years of culturally conscious, effort.