Imperialism: And the Way It Took Away Tranquillity Imperialism is nothing but a fancy word for hostile take over. The only ones to truly benefit from imperialism was the Europeans. The constant suffering and turmoil was left to all rest of the world. Is there even one imperial country who actually benefited from their parent country, direct or indirect ruling aside. If we look at the imperial colonies now, their all in political turmoil. The governments of the countries of; Cuba, Indonesia, South Africa, India, China, just to name a few, are in constant struggle with it's citizens now, because it didn't