If what people hold dear is controlling the way people live hundreds or thousands of miles away, then you're right. But that is a deliberately obtuse definitio

If what people hold dear is controlling the way people live hundreds or thousands of miles away, then you're right. But that is a deliberately obtuse definition designed to justify any behavior. If you let people continue their traditions, don't deliberately bankrupt them, and allow them make their own local laws, that's enough for most.