Clearing the Eye said:
If we look through history, time and time again white people (usually some form of Anglo Saxon) show up on the scene, rape and pillage the vastly worse off native population of black people, then install their own technology and culture. The English did it, the Germans did it, the French did it, the Spanish did it, etc., etc. People with a massive technological advantage, all whom happen to be white, demolish and replace nations. Why? How?
Why? Imperialism.
How? Better technology and luck.
It's widely believed the first of our species developed in Africa, before later moving through what is now Asia and eventually up to Europe. While the oldest human being we've ever found was discovered in Australia (50,000 ish years-old, btw) Africa is thought to be the pool from which the majority of humans developed.
Not "thought to be"...
is. Mitochondrial DNA data universally point towards an African origin for humanity.
They spent a long, long time there, then moved North and into China, establishing the longest running empire yet. White people as we've come to know, didn't arrive on the scene until both the two other major ethnic "types" if you will, had already been growing, learning, evolving and advancing for quite some time.
Europe was colonized in multiple waves, as was Asia, Asia Minor, and every other continent besides the Americas - which were colonized via an ice bridge basically once (relatively speaking).
So, no, "white" people were well established around the same time as Asians. We may have lost territory due to the Ice Age that had to later be recolonized, but that's not an impedance - it means a land pretty much devoid of natural predators and rich in resources.
But somehow, white man managed to acquire a massive technological lead, obtaining things like mechanical engineering, health care and medicine, advanced sanitation and water systems, weapons of war--you get the idea.
Open. A. Fucking. History. Book.
The letters you're using to read this are Roman, the numbers you use to count are Arabic, the Mesopotamians had running water and sewer systems if I remember correctly, the Chinese had gunpowder while the Celts were still using chainmail...
Fuck it, just... you're just wrong. Yeah, we have all of those things, it didn't mean we invented them.
So, somehow European humans managed to outpace and out-tech their older relatives, take over much of the world during centuries of exploration and conquest and end up today as easily the best off nations.
Yeah, a lot of it was just being brutal.
In the case of North America, it was getting lucky. When the English colonies were established the Native American populations had been devastated by disease (as much as 75-90% of their numbers were wiped out), which made waging war on them about 10x easier than it otherwise would have been.
So, there's that. Also, a lot of what you're talking about has only existed for a few hundred years. Go forward a few thousand years, and for all anyone knows Mozambique will be a world leader.
How? Look at the top countries by way of health care, economy, human rights, education and levels of conflict. The top half of the list is comfortably white--Norway, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, etc. They've all had their ups and their downs, going through wars and depressions like anywhere else, but still the happiest, healthiest and most advanced peoples are white.
They only became that way after brutally enacting imperialistic and apathetic regimes.
Plus, Japan.
Asia isn't far behind, held back mostly by extreme levels of poverty that offset their smaller, better off minorities.
I'd say they were held back by technology, since both computers and the internet were invented in the last 100 years by a Western Nation and wasn't something China/Vietnam/Korea/etc. easily had access to until they were already well ingrained.
Most Asian countries have made an astonishing amount of progress, and aside from Dubai, are pretty much the only countries left building impressive national engineering feats. When was the last time you saw a new skyscraper go up in an American city (aside from the 9/11 Memorial)?
Fuck all never, that's when, and Middle Eastern/Asian countries are putting new ones up by the truckload.
I never realized it was this much of a difference. How did it turn out this way? Am I imagining things?
No, you're experiencing cultural relativism.
The victors write the history books. You're white. You read history books written by white people, so bits are left out to make white people superior. It happens ALL the time.
I mean, we trace our cultural routes back to Romans, but do you think Romans/Greeks were white? Hell no, they weren't.
You are on the crest of the wave. You're riding at the high-point of "white" culture and dominance. Go back something like 2000 years and being white is shit. Go back 4000 years and it's even shittier. 8000 years? Still shit. 40,000 years and you don't even exist.
There's absolutely nothing preventing the wave from rolling onto the shore and another ethnic group taking the place of prominence. Nothing.
NOTHING.
White people are not superior, you're merely born in the middle of when we're on top.
