Your painting colonialism with one big brush, welcome to the forum though.
How Britain, France, the Dutch, Italians, etc all operated was different and history romatises it al lfrom the Euro perceptive.
France some what attempted to build a harmonized "Greater France" in which its colonies would be pretty much the same as France in regards to costumes, language, and everything else. Politics and morals aside it was a better idea then the nickel and dime approach the Brits used. It was too costly to run and the French abandoned this policy though aside from its now absorbed Metropolitan islands scattered around the world.
The UK on the other hand systemically chose the most volatile places as close to water and transport and purposely but together groups that did not work together. India and Nigeria are probably the best examples of this. This made it cheap for them to run colonies as all they needed was admin people to pay off the locals they had on staff to get what they needed done.
How Britain, France, the Dutch, Italians, etc all operated was different and history romatises it al lfrom the Euro perceptive.
France some what attempted to build a harmonized "Greater France" in which its colonies would be pretty much the same as France in regards to costumes, language, and everything else. Politics and morals aside it was a better idea then the nickel and dime approach the Brits used. It was too costly to run and the French abandoned this policy though aside from its now absorbed Metropolitan islands scattered around the world.
The UK on the other hand systemically chose the most volatile places as close to water and transport and purposely but together groups that did not work together. India and Nigeria are probably the best examples of this. This made it cheap for them to run colonies as all they needed was admin people to pay off the locals they had on staff to get what they needed done.