Unbreakable Bangkok | Is your Thai Girlfriend a Burden yet?

Rudyard Kipling wrote The White Man's Burden in the mid 19th Century suggesting the west should do everything in it's power to civilise the savage.
But Thailand was never colonised. Would government, healthcare and education be better if it had been?
What about your girlfriend? Would she be more self motivated, have a little initiative and understand the world at large better . . .