Thoughts about history

It's interesting, I feel like what WWII was for the West, wars for independence are to the rest of the world, or at least to the Middle East. Right now there is a music video that talks about having a loved one far away because of war and the music video shows the singer and her lover who's in the underground and her working for the rich colonialists undercover at a fancy hotel. At first I thought it was about WWII because the clothes are obviously from the 40s/50s, but then I realized that no, those aren't Germans, those are colonialists. It's interesting how the Algerians who were fighting the French had a very similar experience in some ways to the French that had underground resistance against the Germans. Maybe the Germans were really only taking colonialism to it's ultimate level, as well as the ethnocentrism of the West. Maybe the French and British didn't persecute people living in their countries or take over their European neighbors, but they did persecute those people they didn't think of as civilized and France did colonize its next door neighbor. Of course, then Germany systematically killed people...