Europeans are not a people.
It apparently needs to be said that Europe is a vast and diverse region of peoples most of whom had nothing to do with the colonizing of the Americas. Including the Transatlantic African slave trade and colonization of other parts of the world the amount of European nations involved in all of this amounts to less than ten.
Greece, Poland, Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovakia, Czechoslovakia(Czech Republic Romania, Hungary, Lithuania. Estonia, Ireland, San Marino, Bulgaria, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Russia had nothing to do with overseas colonization and slavery. Yet they are lumped into the nations that did because reasons.
Western Europe is not Europe. It's a section of Europe. An Europe that also experienced colonialism, slavery, and genocide centuries prior to and including the Age of Colonialism.
Shows like Yellowstone promote bad historical ideas when they permit views such as Monica's to be expressed unchallenged. The part about "Europeans" conception of power is particularly problematic because it ignores the very real violent struggle for land in pre-Columbian Americas. The natives weren't as different from Europeans as Monica wants her class to believe.
Monica needs lessons in history.