Especially when we are presented with Snorts and the Tartan bloke - it's a no brainer................ I guess there's always Cuz, but sheesh, it would end up being a three way with Nasty clinging to him 24/7.
To be fair, it happened to Europe as well, just a lot longer ago - I'm pretty sure the Romans showed no respect for the laws, culture and languages of the countries they invaded either.
Well, this is not exact. The colonization of North America was in many ways different from the Roman conquests. The former began with a colonization of the land and went on like that for some time. When the immigrants and colonists didn't find any resistence from the local inhabitants, at first they didn't fight too much, but when they found that the native population could become an obstacle to the political and economic expansion, what they did was to exterminate them. The main reason for this was a different attitude the Europeans had developed towards the newly discovered lands, like the Americas, Australia, NZ etc. but also towards India and Africa. The new attitude, which started with the great discoveries from the XVI cent. onwards was colonialism, which is the conviction that the people of the lands you are invading are culturally and humanly inferior, so you are justified in stealing their land, their riches, their lives.
In the ancient world the modern idea of colonization, with all its consequences, was absent. The Romans were conquerors, it's true and their conquest began in the Italian peninsula, until they got it all, Etruscans and Magna Graecia in the South included, then expanded to the North of Europe, to the East and to the South, North Africa and Egypt, but they were too clever to cancel those cultures, or languages. They just imposed Latin as the official language and their law system, but they let those people free to profess their religion, to keep many of their customs and traditions, to speak their language along with Latin. In fact they incorporated many cultural, linguistic, social and religious aspects of those cultures. A good part of the Roman law system and architecture came from the Etruscans, just as their religion, much of their higher culture came from Greece, later the Roman religion mingled with Eastern and Celtic cults etc. Many of their later emperors were Africans, Germans or from the Balkans. They knew that respecting those conquered cultures to a certain degree was a winning formula for mantaining their power.
All the European Medieval history (as well as the European languages) is the consequence of this mingling of Latin, Greek, Celtic and German cultures.
Which is not what sadly has happened in North America, where those ancient and great cultures were not only physically destroyed and despised, often by people who were very ignorant and uneducated but still today are not respected and honoured as they should be. Same as in Australia and NZ.