Imperialism reproduced European institutions by educating local settler elites to lead them.

Evidence

Imperialism inscribed cultural cloning of European values, virtues, and visions. But it likewise sought to institutionalize replication of the imperialist’s legal and political arrangements or structures. And it did so in good part, as Philomena Essed has shown in the case of physicians, by encouraging local elites, themselves settlers or their offspring, to assume the lead in such institutionalization by means of education and idea adoption. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1124