Several "Third World" cultures were doing pretty well and would be still be faring fine if the "First World" hadn't depredated them over the course of the last

Several "Third World" cultures were doing pretty well and would be still be faring fine if the "First World" hadn't depredated them over the course of the last couple centuries. It's pretty arrogant - colonial - to assume that societies must resemble our own to be credibly successful.