If we're talking about diseases they were worse off, but if we're talking about relationships, the British had a terrible relationship with the natives and treated the natives as obstacles. but the French had trading relationships with the natives and became allies.
<span>In 1492 Italian Spanish navigator Christopher Columbus reached the Americas and claimed the new lands for Castile. </span>
Japanese women mostly escaped the more oppressive features of Confucianism - prohibition of remarriage for widows, seclusion within the home, and foot binding. They could own property, divorce, and remarry. Korean women were tied down to Confucian values - became stricter.