In this world, there's a few things that humans have been super good at, and among those have been figuring out new and interesting ways to wage war, and figuring out how to conquer those who were weaker. If someone other than the Europeans of the exploration age had figured those out sooner, then world history would have turned out differently. Article's author needs to get over herself. If it weren't for colonialism and migration for better living circumstances, her ass would have been born in whatever country her ancestors came from.