Actually, yes, it happens everywhere. most of the time some people believe in their own beliefs and get too hard headed and shallow to even process that not everyone has the same beliefs/practices that doesn't mean they're right nor wrong just different. like Atheism & Christianity; its a huge topic people discuss that usually always turns heated.
People can see a difference in their area
Explanation:
As late as the beginning of the nineteenth century, despite the many years of direct contact with European traders and the influx of European goods, most African societies still produced their own iron and its products, or obtained them from neighbouring communities through local trade. The quality of iron products was such that, despite competition from European imports, local iron production survived into the early twentieth century in some parts of the continent. This was the case at Yatenga in modern-day Burkina Faso, where in 1904 there were as many as 1,500 smelting furnaces in production. The production process covered prospecting, mining, smelting and forging. Different types of ore were available all over the continent and were extracted by shallow or alluvial mining. A variety of skills were required for building furnaces, producing charcoal, smelting and forging iron into goods. Iron production was generally not an enclave activity but a process that fulfilled the totality of socio-economic needs. It also fitted the gender division of labour within communities.
Answer:
They were harmful to the territory that the discovered because unlike the indigenous and aboriginal troops who used ONLY what the needed. The European explorers took whatever they wanted, and cleared many thriving forests to build cabins and such.
The argument was that since white people arrived in the USA first, they were superior.