alt Hacker NewsIn case that was not meant as sarcasm:
Are the people in the current US administration, or the tech leadership, or the people in power in Israel or Russia looking particular nice to you or interested in the wellbeing of all humans?
Were the European colonialists nice to the people in Africa or South America or the settlers in North America to the natives?
People are super nice - to their own ingroup. The relationship to everyone else is less friendly, especially if power differences are involved.
There are countless precedents where disaster strikes and humans have worked together to help each other; including people they don’t know at all.
„Common wisdom“ dictates that humans are wild animals, and the only thing keeping us from tearing ourselves apart is a thin layer of civilization. This is sometimes called the „veneer theory“.
That theory is wrong.
It’s also very important to powerful people that you believe that the theory is right; because why else would you allow eg. an autocracy to exist?
So, to answer your questions:
> Were the European colonialists nice to the people in Africa or South America or the settlers in North America to the natives?
No, but the natives were nice to the settlers.