[bsanr2]

I don't know why this is being downvoted; it's a true and salient point. The only nation in which European intercession seems not to have warped native social structure for the worst is Japan, and only because it's hard to get much worse than "allowing for summary execution of lower caste individuals for small slights". In Africa, Asia, and North and South America, it's easy to point out many examples of Western "involvement" leading to horrific human rights abuses based on social class that would not have existed before.