Advantages of Imperialism: Many European and American writers have pointed out several advantages and merits of Imperialism and colonialism. It is civilizing. It spreads Western culture and techniques. It has made Europe and America the most prosperous parts of the globe. But these advantages are of the same kind as Aristotle claimed for the slavery of the ancient times.
Evils of Imperialism:
The evils and ills which Imperialism has caused are far greater and more grievous than its merits. It is a source of global misery of mankind. It is a cause of world wars. It is a negation of all the higher and nobler ideals and values of human existence. It has caused abject poverty, misery, backwardness and degradation of the peoples and countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America terrible.
It has been the cause of some of the greatest and most inhuman acts and tragedies in human history, such as wars, national enslavement, the slave trade, and above all, the destruction and extermination of such backward peoples as the Red Indians of America, the Bushmen of Australia, the Negroes of South Africa and now threatens several other peoples such as the Algerians, the Palestinian Arabs, and other Muslim and non-Muslim peoples of the world with the same dire fate.