According to a 2014 YouGov poll , 50 percent of people in Britain believe that colonialism was beneficial to the colonies . Related Interview with Usta Patnaik Inglorious Empire by Shashi Thahroor
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51