Original sentence: Defenders of colonialism point to such former colonies as the United States of America, Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Singapore as examples of post-colonial success.Since colonialism involves the rule or taking of territory of one people by another and without their consent, many people believe that the worst effects of colonialism is the fact that a country (in history, European), takes land rightfully belonging to indigenous peoples without any consent, and generally mistreating them afterwards.These nations do not, however, represent the normal course of colonialism in that they are either settler societies, or Trading post|tradepost cities
Edited sentence: Defenders of colonialism point to such former colonies as the United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore as examples of post-colonial success.Since colonialism involves the rule or taking of territory of one people by another and without their consent, many people believe that the worst effects of colonialism is the fact that a country (in history, European), takes land rightfully belonging to natives (usually Native American or African) without any consent, and generally mistreating the natives afterwards.These nations do not, however, represent the normal course of colonialism in that they are either settler societies, or tradepost cities