According to Columbus, the people he met react to Spanish with "generosity."
This is evident in the fact that the people Columbus met were known as the Tainos. These people on the arrival of the Spanish in 1492, welcomed the Spanish with generosity by giving them all that they needed, including exchanging greater resources with little materials.
According to Columbus, he declared that "They will give all that they do possess for anything that is given to them, exchanging things even for bits of broken crockery..."
The resistance movement often led by the southeast Asian people has been educated in the west because the westernized native leaders are highly respected and that their institution and the values were also respected that is why they are likely to be educated in the west.