The impact of colonialism

On the colonizers
All of these colonies have brought European powers an economic advantage from cheap raw materials and manpower, and as markets for the Industrial Revolution. However, colonizing nations have faced resistance from native peoples as they attempted to establish permanent, settled colonies instead of just trade outposts, resulting in wars and uprisings. Europe usually has prevailed because of its technological superiority. There are also signs of friction between colonizing nations as room for expansion dwindles.

On the colonies
Europeans currently dominate the governments of all their colonies, which can be a source of friction between them and native peoples, and wars have resulted several times. Colonial settlers often take land away from indigenous peoples. While the British have felt a paternal urge to "civilize" these nations and to introduce British culture, this policy has not always been successful or well thought out, except in colonies where there has been much British settlement, such as Canada, Australia, and South Africa, and even then there is a great divide in most cases between British and native. In contrast, France has striven to assimilate its colonies culturally as well as economically, considering assimilated natives as Frenchmen. It is certainly true that the colonies now have access to manufactured goods from Europe in exchange for the raw goods they produce, but they do not yet have fully-developed economies. And conflict between colonizing nations may place indigenous peoples in danger. However, it is true that some former colonies, such as Canada, now prosper on their own.