If it was not for advances in medicine, physics, chemistry, mathematics, etc. Europe would still be in the dark ages. We cannot give credit to only Europeans for the advancement of this world, this is known as European supremacist mentality.
Also, last time I checked, killing an average of 30 to 50 women and children a month from aerial drones and bombing campaigns for nearly 8 years counts as genocide.
As for Bowser, what you are saying is simply fear mongering and this is exactly what Nazis did against Jews, Gypsies, and Polish people during World War 2, before they started exterminating them in concentration camps. I would have thought that we as humans have evolved beyond this, but apparently not all of us.