> To add to that point, most colonisation has been about resource capture. I think you're over-extrapolating. One obvious difference is that colonizers have b

> To add to that point, most colonisation has been about resource capture. I think you're over-extrapolating. One obvious difference is that colonizers have been exposed to other humans of all kinds, even before colonization. There was nothing about (e.g.) Native American society that you couldn't find in Eurasia + Africa that's even remotely on the same scale as the differences between us and a theoretical alien civilization.