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RE: CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY: Which Is The Truer Statement? Everything Is Beautiful In Its Own Way Or Everything Is Not Beautiful In Its Own way?
More often than not these countries were better off as European colonies as they benefited from the virtues of the Christian West.
There's too much in there for a straight answer: better, European, colonies, virtues, Christian.
It greatly differs from country to country. Sometimes functioning cultures, sometimes backward and aggressive ones, influenced by Western humiliation or law and organisation, sometimes armed by the West, then left to their own devices, is a sufficiently vague answer 8-).
Congratulations @ocrdu :) There is no right straight answer here like you say - there are just too many variables ... but it's certainly a fun question to ask ;)