How White Men Conquered the World
It’s not by hypocrisy that the playing field isn’t level. It’s by necessity.
- Xenocrates
The greatest conquerors of the old (and new) world are white. Why is that?
Have you ever wondered how is it that white folks essentially control the vast majority of the power in the world? I’ve heard many theories on the subject, from Afrocentric philosophers to white supremacists – all of which have gaping holes in their logic. The answer is deceptively simple. This time, it’s nurture that has compelled nature in the most profound way possible.
Stating the Obvious
I usually need to do a one paragraph preamble to ward off stoic trolls, because unfortunately, most people don’t understand the purpose of language and so instead of getting caught in yet another debate about semantics versus material, let me state the obvious. I don’t believe in race superiority. I believe in genetic advantage. Race and genetics are mutually exclusive, since unlike the latter, the former doesn’t exist. If you don’t understand this, then read no further.
Thanks.
Genetic Advantage?
When I speak of Genetic Advantage, I’m referring to a specific expression of the human genotype (i.e., a phenotype) that has the greatest advantage in the current environmental configuration. No individual phenotype is intrinsically advantageous (meaning no race is inherently superior), since that is determined entirely by variable environmental conditions.
That’s why Hitler was wrong about Aryan Supremacy (from a scientific point of view).
If the environment changes, then the current dominant phenotype will be immediately put in a precarious position, as the advantage would slowly shift to another – which is exactly what has been happening over the last 200 years. In another 100 years, the current dominant human phenotype will be relegated to second place, because the environment is changing.
Necessary Deprecation
Before we continue, I thought it necessary to establish the necessary deprecation of two words: “Race” and “Caucasian”. Why? Because the word “race” has no intrinsic scientific value. It describes a set of features that were functions of group migration across the environment. Many, many more races are possible. Our environment is just too limited to expose them all. Additionally, people of mixed descent are not socially recognized by the word.
There are eight classes of Caucasians as described by the Meyers-Blitz Lexikon (1932), which are (from left to right, top down) Nordic, Dinaric, Mediterranean, Alpine, East Baltic, Turks, Bedouins and Afghans.
Secondly, the word “Caucasian” arose out of the theory that all white people emerged from a region between Europe and Iran called Caucasus, and it describes a very wide range of ethnic groups. Caucasians include most fair skinned “races”, which automatically includes anyone who has the skull structure, if not the corresponding skin color. Thus, Aryans, Indians and Arabs are all considered Caucasian – only to establish Aryans as white and the rest as not.
This type of controversial classification only has social value. Words that only have social value tend to become abused to fit phobic agendas (such as racism) and thus are inherently loaded. Similarly, describing Negroes as “People of African descent” is inherently fallacious, as proven by The Genographic project, confirming the theory that all of mankind is of African descent.
So how did white men conquer the world, exactly? Through several functions of cause and effect which occurred in a specific sequence that would create that effect, starting out with:
Genetic Mutation
Blue Eyes are one of the most distinctive genetic mutations in humans.
The phenotype commonly referred to as Caucasians has many more conspicuous, traceable mutations (such as white skin and blue eyes) in the last 20 – 50 thousand years than all the others. Where as other phenotypic group expressions (commonly referred to as “races”) differ primarily in orthopedic, (and more specifically, cranial) qualities, there are enough variations in Europeans to functionally deprecate any further use of the words “race” and “Caucasian“.
White people are uniquely different from virtually all other phenotypic groups in that the genetic mutations that created them are vastly more distinct. They constitute a larger number of diverse physical characteristics that are not as subtle as the variations that exist in other groups. Thus, the prevalence of white people across the world speaks to what many scientists believe to be natural selection due to the perception of an apparent innovative survivability by female mates within the group of this distinct phenotype, giving generational prominence.
This is why blue and green eyes, fair skin, blond, brown and red straight hair became the standard qualities that describe people of this group. Virtually all of these qualities are genetic mutations that were simply given preference over most others when they first occurred, thus giving them a greater degree of ubiquity in the group than the other existing permutations.
Environmentally fueled Cognition
Now while the genetic filtration process occurred in Africa due to migration, those who had migrated north found more favorable ground in which to propagate their groups as Africa had changed. The once northern temperate zones passed closer to the equator due to continental shift, making the continent less hospitable to fertile produce, agriculture and livestock.
Those who migrated north found cooler, more temperate zones where their cognition could develop at a normal pace as the nutritional support was far better. If all migratory groups had the same nutritional opportunities, no single group would have a stronger cognitive pulse. Those who remained in Africa could not have nurtured as favorably as the northern folk, and so the vicious cycle of nature compelling nurture, produced in Europe what it didn’t in Africa:
Civilization
It is fair to say that civilization evolved out of the lands north of Africa first. In fact, from what we know, civilization erupted in the middle east long before it got anywhere else in the dark continent. The further north humans got, the more advanced their civilizations became. It’s the same humans in each group. However, any group migrating out of Africa got a jump start.
This is why after 60,000 years of evolution, the northern folks were able to revisit Africa in their now finely refined, fair skinned, brown haired, blue eyed, cotton clad, gun toting, sea faring, gold digging, monarchy backed personas, only to see their fellow humans in almost the same position they left them 60,000 years earlier living in relatively primitive civilizations.
Absolute Conquest
When the fair skinned humans noticed the obvious intellectual, social and economic disparity between the societies they came from and the societies (for lack of a better word) in which they found their African brothers, they assumed, unscientifically, that they were superior. Naturally, this created a superiority complex among the Europeans rediscovering Africa.
Little did our fair skinned brothers realize (they would not have discovered DNA and genetics for another 500 years) that the reason for the disparity is not intrinsic to their culture (or nature), but rather was merely a reflection of a very slight advantage their long forgotten fore fathers had, that they weren’t even aware of. The rest is history: Slavery, Racism, Apartheid.
For black folks reading this, the fair skinned men from the northern lands weren’t the first to enslave darker skinned humans. That was just the most recent case. In fact, Africans have been enslaved at least five times in world history. At the very least, the Arabs, Greeks, Persians, Romans and various European nations such as Portugal and Holland all chipped in.
As a result, the darker men in Africa constantly had their culture being rebooted every 500 – 2,000 years by their smarter, more cognitively evolved, fairer skinned northern land dwelling brothers. Some 700 years later, Africa is still trying to play catch up to the rest of the world, as it desperately tries to recover from the repeated culture rape of the last 5,000 years or so.
Now that Africa was sore, the status quo had been established.
The Status Quo
This is perhaps the most important step in world domination for our fair skinned northern brothers. The white man had not only demonstrated his raw cognitive, military and social superiority to the Africans, but an offshoot of his y-chromosome that migrated to the far east was also no stranger to the Europeans’ firm leather boots. The Asians were next on the list.
Having established a Status Quo throughout Europe, battling among themselves for about 1000 years, using everything from fire to religion and then milking the dark continent of its ore and its physically superior, but cognitively inferior denizens, making an impact on the far east wasn’t too hard. Besides, their kung-fu was no match for a few ships armed with cannons.
After Africa and Asia fell under the boot of their fairer skinned brothers, they decided that the rest of the world needed conquering. So they mounted ships and repeated everything they did in Africa over the last 4,000 years to the y-chromosome cousins of the Asians in Northern, Central and Southern America. As they’ve done this before, it was second nature by now.
Concordantly, this is why:
We speak European languages
With each act of conquest, the white man proceeded to impart to all of his conquered subjects his ways, his science, his art, his philosophy, his language, his governance structure, the appreciation of his women as the de facto standard of beauty, his technology, his education, thereby matriculating the rest of the world over the next 400 years into his standards.
Aside from genetics, one of the distinctive differences between ethnic groups, is language. If you’re not white and you’re reading this, then you are a living example of the superiority of Europe. To demonstrate this effectively, I invite you to consider the following anecdote: A friend asked me recently: “How many languages do you speak?” I then responded as follows:
- Ich spreche Deutsches (German)
- Nihongo ga wakarimasu (Japanese)
- Je parle Français (French)
- Hablo español, y… (Spanish)
- I speak English
They thought that was really impressive – but I was somewhat ashamed. Why? Because I don’t know a single word of Swahili. I know the languages of some of the cultures that made their mark upon the world, but I didn’t know any of the languages of my origin. Though to be fair, Africa is teeming with indigenous tongues. The average educated African speaks about three or four languages. Never the less, the ubiquity of European languages speaks volumes.
It says that:
The world is defined by European standards
Images like this often send the wrong message to young black women about beauty.
I’ve had Asian friends complain about the invasion of China by the west, when China uses a system of government white men invented. It’s the same way how black folks complain that racism inhibited black people, even though they don’t have to worry about yellow fever, and are earning six figure salaries in white run companies. The hypocrisy is hilarious, to say the least, since China owes its wealth to America and Africans living in the west are not as poor.
It’s the same reason why most western black people would never return to Africa, why Latinos are trying to escape Mexico, why you’re Asian and you don’t know a single word in Chinese, or why your government is no longer run by a Monarchy or a religious elite. White people have reformed our thinking and given us the ability to think about things in a wholly different way.
It is not surprising that our education systems, our governments, our politics, our clothing, the technology we use, the sports we play, many of our cultural idiosyncrasies and much of the music we love is largely based on European standards. Europeans and their descendants have defined much of what you now come to take for granted, because it was “always there“.
That’s why complaining about the hypocrisy and inequality between races is an intrinsically redundant argument. It is not by hypocrisy that the playing field isn’t level. It’s by necessity. I know this sounds Machiavellian from the outset, but all peoples needed to evolve out of their barbarianism sooner or later. Whites just got there first and are now spreading that around.
If white men had not intervened when they did, many peoples would still be living in primitive societies plagued by dangerous diseases and barbaric cultural practices. I know you might be thinking that white folks could have done the same thing without the hideous crimes against humanity. Those were certainly regrettable, but all ethnic groups are guilty of the same crime.
The unification of China saw the slaughter and exile of many ethnic Chinese groups that brought the Han Chinese to prominence. The same thing is happening in Africa even today, most recently with the genocide in Darfur and Rwanda. Even prehistoric neanderthals had similar periods of ethnic cleansing. So white people are no more vile than the rest of humanity.
That’s just human nature at work.
However, the humanity that grew out of European influence would not have occurred without the preceding brutality. Human nature is such that the greatest good only occurs after the greatest evil. It would have happened with us too. However, since the environment gave whites the obvious cognitive advantage, they went through those phases before all others.
That’s would consequently explain:
Why other groups have some inferiority complex
Consultants from DFID (right) meet with the Jamaican government (left).
I mentioned once on this blog before that I’ve never seen a black run government hire black consultants to do any kind of work related to social development. The United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the Canadian Inter Development Agency are some of the primary sources of social development consultancy in the third world.
There’s a very good reason for that.
European cultures have already gone through hundreds of years of teething pains when it came to social development. Thus, once they solved those problems, they passed it down through generations of documentation, building on their previous knowledge, developing the the first world societies they now live in. Other cultures were still primitives at the same time.
Even so, I’ve seen enough cases where black men in black run governments would much rather give a multi-million dollar consulting contract to white men from a foreign land than to their own black natives. I’ve seen the very same thing in Asia as well. So I know it’s not unique to black people. In fact, the same thing happens in many developing nations across the world.
What really fascinated me though, is that during my high school years, even though we had a very mixed student population, the black kids seemed to develop a certain deeper respect for those of our teachers who were white that wasn’t exactly duplicated for those who were black. I thought it was odd at first, until I saw the black teachers doing the same thing – even for those white teachers whom they supervised. How bizarre is that? I thought that was odd.
It wasn’t until years later during my late teens that I read about a psychological condition called an “inferiority complex” and a corresponding “superiority complex“. Adolf Hitler and his Nazi kin are probably the best demonstration of the latter.
It would appear as though the massively unique number of mutations that generated white men not only served to their advantage among their own kin, but also among the rest of the world. It’s as if their collective inferiority complex caused them to subconsciously hand the keys of the world to the white man. It was Africans who sold blacks into slavery. The same thing happened in Asia. Everyone who has ever blamed white people for the world’s problems seems to forget those small historical details. They didn’t take it away. It was given to them.
That’s what has in turn created:
The Brain Drain on the third world
In many third world nations, being educated at a local university is not quite as prestigious as graduating from one in North America or Europe – even though the course content is exactly the same in most cases. The thing is that when people migrate north to study, they rarely return home to implement their knowledge. It’s white folks working as volunteers who do that.
Oh, the irony.
So while the smartest people who are born in backwater towns are the best hope of that town moving into the modern age, they are often forced to find work in the northern lands because they are either threatened by crime or economic stagnation. This is why universities in first world nations are offering full scholarships to the brightest living in the third world.
This not only robs the third world of its smartest people, but it creates a one way road into first world economies, making them even stronger and more powerful. I honestly can’t blame them. Bright people tend to have very little patience with troglodytes. I can especially relate because of cases where brilliant third world personalities are snuffed out by crime because their foreign ideas threatened the businesses in their home state that refused to innovate.
That would never happen to a white man coming into the community to do the same thing though. The biggest companies in the world are owned by people of European descent. So even where a third world local fails to implement his innovative ideas in his country due the collective ignorance of his countrymen, white men will be able to do just that without any resistance at all. The inferiority complex of the natives is what gives the white men that power.
It is no small wonder then that:
There is White Privilege
I watch the BBC a lot – largely because of their highly educational documentaries – particularly the Horizon series. One of the things I’ve gleaned from the BBC is how white men can literally go to any part of the world and they will be given the right of way. Even the local authorities in some countries seem to defer to the “appearance” of authority inherent in visiting white men.
Racial profiling is practically nonexistent on white people. I have never heard of any other group of humans that has enslaved Caucasians – aside from when it was done by other Caucasians (the Barbary Slave Trade). This means that unlike Negroes, Asians and other phenotypic expressions, there is virtually no time in recorded history where a substantial portion of the white race was disenfranchised because of the colour of their skin. Not even World War II’s atrocities matched that of the Atlantic African slave trade.
Never the less, I can only imagine that for the most part, it must feel good to be white given the rest of the world’s inherent delusion that the biological qualities of the Europeans are anything more than just biological. So although third world governments are free of colonial rule, they still defer to their colonial masters, completely misreading their assertive nature.
Accountability
But let us avoid denial: Who was brave enough to sail across the seemingly flat surface of the Earth to discover the New World? Who do you see hanging with the Gorillas in the mist? Who is exploring the deepest darkest corners of the Oceans and daring to explore the cold dark expanse of space? White men. You rarely ever see any other ethnic group doing these things.
Love or hate them, we owe a great deal of our cognitive evolution to white men. But let us not get distracted. Any group of humans that migrated out of Africa to the north west would have evolved into fair skinned, blue eyed, brown haired explorers extraordinaire. The environment is what facilitated the genetic mutations. Technically, any phenotypic expression of the human genotype can produce any other. They weren’t white while they were primitive tribes in Africa.
Either way, none of that matters anymore.
Conclusively
The impending ubiquity of technology has effectively shrunken the world. While great divides still exist economically between white societies and all others, the rest of the world has finally caught up with the cognitive levels of white men – and white men are to be thanked for that. It is they who after all have educated the rest of the world on their social advancements.
No longer does the USA hold a monopoly on economies of scale nor is it the manufacturing center of the world. China now has that honor. The greatest minds in the world may still be mostly white, but now those great minds include Africans, Asians, Hispanics and every other variation of humanity in between. This is how whites have ultimately redeemed themselves.
Make no mistake though – white people still rule the world. The only thing changing this, is that there is a limitation to cognitive evolution. The more educated a group becomes, the more interested it will be in the pursuit of knowledge and the less interested it will be in the pursuit of procreation. White populations around the world, from America to Europe, are dwindling.
This is the change that will ultimately unseat the dominant phenotype – maybe not in our lifetimes, but certainly eventually. White populations are not expanding as quickly as that of other groups – most notably people of Asian, Latin and Negro descent. If the rate of cognitive evolution remains the same and the negative population growth of Europeans is unmitigated, we may very well see a successful shift in the dominant phenotype from Europeans to Asians.
Even so, this is not a cause for concern. There will always be white people around. That their populations are shrinking is only a function of being the first to civilize. That will be the fate of all distinct human groups. For as I said before, no phenotype is inherently superior by design. The perception is a fallacy based on the deceptive evolutionary impact of the environment.
Genetic advantage is a fleeting thing.
■ E-mail: accordingtoxen[at]gmail[dot]com
Leave a Reply
View in your language
Add me to your circle on:
World Visitors
You are the best example of the black individual who cannot see beyond the Eurocentric worldview and thus is not able to disentangle himself from the web of Europe’s suffocating racism toward Africa
Haha.
By the same rule of logic, I could easily argue that you are the best example of the black individual who cannot see beyond the Afrocentric worldview and is thus unable to extricate themselves from the web of Africa’s suffocating racism towards Europe. Yes, Africans have demonstrated racism towards Europe. Being black doesn’t indemnify you of racism.
You, like most black people, believe that racism is implied in every fact that doesn’t put black people on a pedestal. You would gladly embrace the idea that black people rule the world despite all evidence to the contrary. That’s ok. I don’t pander to delusional flights of fancy. You can live inside your soapbox. I prefer to stand on mine.
Cheers.
So the premise of your article is white race (Europeans) conquered the world because of the superior cognitive ability of the white race. Therefore ethnic groups (race) are different in cognitive ability a matter of brain size or genes.
The implicit message of your article is that the supposed inferior cogntion of Africans prevents Blacks from creating decent and civilized societies anywhere on Earth, creating only primitives civilisations. Although white are not genetically superior to blacks, they are however superior to blacks/Africans intellectually.
Thanks for making feel inferior.
No. The premise of the article is that environmental factors created favourable conditions that facilitated white dominance. It could have happened to any race. Whites were just in the right place at the right time.
Also, please bear in mind that comfort and truth are rarely found in the same place. I don’t feel regret that this post made you feel inferior. I only regret that harsh realities are imperceptible to simpler minds.
Thanks for such a thoroughly engaging discussion/explanation.
Brilliant.
For early humans, Earth’s most challenging climates were its coldest. White folks and civilization evolved out of necessity. The most valuable challenge for all humans has been to share the progress. Ethnocentrism is its greatest hinderance.
In that vein, diversity itself should be valued as well as looking to white civilization for trickle-down benefits. Each race, nation, tribe, family and individual develops their own unique set of advantages that should be shared and used for collective benefit. So while white varieties may be found cognitively, socially and physically superior in many ways, others may be respected for their own advantages. African varieties have musical, social and kinesthetic cognitive advantages. East Asians and Semitic Jews outperform socially-comparable whites on measures of mathematical faculties. And so on.
Whites, with generally longer upper bodies, a greater amount of slow-twitch upper body muscle tissue and relatively light skeletons make the world’s best swimmers and strong men. West Africans make the best sprinters. Glancing at the racial representation of an American football offensive versus defensive line shows a near-binary racial split between whites and blacks. In many more contrasts and with respect to other races, the Olympics show a myriad of other trends that are being explained more and more by anthropology.
Breeding and selecting humans by specialty entails overtones of racism and favoritism but it may be an unavoidable consequence of having brought a competitive and disparate human family together. If this shift can be popularly regarded as a shared advantage then we will all benefit from the continued growth of diversity rather than the linear whitewashing of recent history.
Brilliant, well written, anthropologically, historically accurate, honest and fairminded to a fault…the Louis CK clip pushed it into the sublime..thanks for this
This is anthropologically and historically inaccurate, infact it’s riddled with blatant holes.
1) Most of the major Ancient civilizations that played a essential role in building the West were, around the Mediterranean, and the Middle East, not in Scandinivia, Russia, or “Northern regions”. The first major civilizations were Akkadians, Sumerians, Babylonians, Ancient Egyptians, Romans etc. However “white people” existed during these times, when the Romans first ventured into Eastern Europe, and into England/Northern Europe, most “Whites” lived in third world countries and they were at the same level as that of African tribes in Central Africa. The Romans and Greeks in particularly wrote this when they were expanding their respective empires. The Romans had to civilize the English and wrote about how backwards most of them were.
2) The Arabs, Assyrians had their own respective empires and most had “White slaves” and thought their respective skin colors were the most superior. There are Greek accounts of this, of saying that White blue eyed people were “bad” and the Med/Middle Eastern color was the “best” and “just right”. The Arabs wrote about this when they were carrying out their empire towards Baghdad. When the Moors had conquered Spain/Italy, some percentages of them were BLACK, however the Islamic Kurds, despite having conquered the Visigoths, did not treat them equally when they converted to Islam.
3) Is forgetting the Mongols, the Mongols were non-whites yet they were able to successfully push into Central Asia, the Caucuses, into Eastern Europe successfully all the way to Poland and Germany. The Mongols didn’t think Whites were superior in any way shape or form, they just went in and took over. The Whites were not able to push them back and almost were destroyed as a civilization until Genghis Khan’s grandson was forced to withdraw. At the same time, the Egyptians had successfully managed to repel (Mamluks) Mongol attacks in the Levant and most of the Arabian peninsula. The Arabs had gun powder technology that the Europeans didn’t have at the time and couldn’t come up with on their own. The Mongols actually scouted and looked around England and thought it was a gigantic shit hole.
4) Alexander the Great attempted to take control of Northern India, but failed to but Xen makes no mention of this. Many of these same “whites” attempted to take control of that same place but failed to. The Brits in particular lost a couple of wars in Northern India and Afghanistan and praised the Sikh soldiers for holding them back.
5) The Polynesians in the Islands of the Pacific were able to develop sail boat technology before European contact. The Polynesians successfully reached South America and America and there are bones such as the Kennewick man to prove this. It is verified that the Polynesians may have introduced chickens and numerous other animals to South America and parts of America. Polynesians were successfully able to sail around the world, on the Ocean, to even the Easter Islands. Yet the Polynesians had no terrain or anything even remotely close to that of Western Europe or the Middle East. Polynesians in real life have great genetics for sports and are known to be “big”.
6) The part about Asia is also wrong, China and Japan were never colonized. China was far superior and ahead of Europe before they closed their doors. Chinese sailors and technology was mind numbingly ahead of Europe during the medieval ages. There is a MAP that showed that the Chinese knew about America and about other continents across the world. They had plans to colonize America, infact I wouldn’t be surprised if they could just taken over Western Europe. However, for an unknown reason, the last Chinese emperor closed China’s doors and burnt the plans for their colonization of America. Infact Chinese sailors were so good, they managed to colonize Japan, go all from the way from the pacific to East Africa to the Middle East to Ceylon. Just read about the Chinese treasure fleets and how massive some of their ships were in comparison to the small mediocre vessels of the Europeans. In addition, there are specific “mummies” of “White people” around Western China but they didn’t have as much “success” in taking over that respective society. Lastly, the Chinese were minting metals and were coming up with societies not based around worship of religion and deities, they have records and tomes dating back to almost 6000 BC and more. White people existed and were living in CAVES and as hunter gatherer groups, while Confucianism was taking hold in China and they were constructing metallurgical weapons along with gigantic structures of concrete/metal (there is actual record of THIS). The Japanese were never colonized by Europeans and they repelled Christian missionaries from establishing a presence in their societies.
7) The premise is just too faulty, if colder temperatures and mountainous environments were SOOOO advantageous, why didn’t the people from Kashmir to the Himalayas, to the Altaic Mountains conquer the world first and develop technology first instead of the Whites? Why didn’t the “White race” instead develop independently at the respective locations there? There are many other regions of the world besides Central Asia that have the exact same environments as where Whites developed. Again if Whites were superior genetically then why were the Vikings that sailed to the Americas first were defeated by the Native Americans? The Vikings wrote about how the “Skraelings” with their stone age tools, were able to push the Vikings from creating settlements. Northern European supremacy is IMO stupid and a big joke.
8) I was going to mention Ancient Egyptian given their proximity to the Sun and how they didn’t need colder weather for bigger brains but that would be unlocking the bees nest. Babylonians and Sumerians were not really “Whites” and neither were the Caucasoid Libyans. Semitic people are not Aryans and they weren’t from Central Asia, yet they enslaved Whites, continue to enslave Whites; one needs to look at how the Jews, despite being a small percentage of the world’s population, control a majority of the world’s power and much of that power is from White societies. Semitic people have a completely different line then that of Indo-Europeans. The Nubians and Kushites were “black” respectively but were able to develop kingdoms. There were Nubian kings of Egypt and do take note that Egypt was multicultural with a “Caucasoid” presence. There were also Nubian soldiers in the Roman empire, some of which were in central Europe to Britain. However they didn’t really face racism from the Romans when they attempted to join their ranks.
9) A bad example but if being North meant being more advanced, why did Carthage and various other Empires in North Africa/Middle East were able to successfully defeat/enslave Whites? Carthage and various empires around that area were developed and had sophisticated plumbing systems without the help of so called “Northern Europeans”. In many ways some of these empires were more developed at a technological/societal level then their respective northern white empires and used to beat them. One needs to recall how Hannibal, in one of the famous moves in military history, defeated a Roman contingent leading to Caesar’s rise. Not a great example but Hannibal was known for hiring “African mercenaries” in his military.
10) The last example I will use is that of the Huns and their successful invasions of Europe. This IMHO is the powder keg that’s going to give blow up the entire premise of this blog post. The claim is that Whites were superior when they came into their phenotypes and mutations which everyone is now taking over granted. Now let’s take not, the Chinese centuries before were combating the Huns, a mysterious Asiatic group that were nomads and killed people. The Chinese were successfully able to actually fend off the Huns and they build the Great Wall of China stretching from province to province and COMPLETELY barred Huns and other nomadic groups from ever penetrating into China until the Mongols. When the Huns were faced with this situation and bad weather, they migrated in numbers towards eventually Europe and the eastern portions of the Roman empire. However the Huns were able to SUCCESSFULLY beat the Romans and actually CONQUER portions of white roman territory. The Huns were also the reason why the GOTHS, who resembled “Whites” and Northern Europeans, went towards roman territory which caused huge friction with that of the Romans. This eventually resulted in the Roman invasions of the Germania and their eventual enslavement of Northern Europeans. Yet the Romans could not defeat or repel these Asiatic Huns until one of the Holy European leaders went to Atilla the Hun and convinced him not to go further. The Romans were only able to hold back the Huns around the Alps and barren/cold terrain, terrain which the Huns could not push into.
You’re right, Jake. It wasn’t environmental factors that made white people superior. If you take away the environmental factor then all we’re left with is genetics. So you’re basically implying that they are just genetically superior. I hereby stand corrected.
i don’t see how my post proves that Whites were superior genetically to other groups, what it does prove is that the supposed White rule of modern times is just an accident and coincidence of a time frame. i specifically mentioned how Whites, in case by case examples, had an inability to dominate other groups and were defeated when they were not supposed to given their evolution and mutations. Please elaborate on how what I said proves that Whites are superior, I would like to understand the reasoning behind that.
Human civilizations date back all the way back to the Ice age and perhaps even before; there are underwater structures off the coasts of Japan, India, South America,the Mediterranean, North America, and even yes Antarctica. All these structures indicate that supposed modern societies predated and existed during the Ice Age and even before by testing of these monolithic structures. The Ancient Indians of india have buildings and texts claiming that Human civilizations might be thousands to millions of years old. There is evidence of an Atlantean or Atlantis like civilization with imprints all over the globe that vanished due to climatic and global flooding. For example, there are been shocking and surprising findings of South American tribes with Ancient Egyptian artifacts/materials when this was not supposed to be possible given the technology at their time.There is also evidence pointing out that the Ancient Egyptians had managed to mysteriously acquire products like corn and tobacco which only existed in the America’s and not the old world. The Ancient Egyptians spoke of Atlantis and of mysterious boat people that would come in attack them on several occasions and this was before the Phoenicians came into being. The empire of Carthage’s capital was bizzarely named “New city” without any references to an “old city”, the only explanation was that this could be a reference to an old Atlantis like civilization that the Phoenicians and Carthagians hailed from. There are even accounts of mysterious BEARDED like people and humans coming to the civilizations of the South America’s in the after math of a past major global flood, in civilizations with no people possessing beards or facial hair, somehow bringing new technology and ideas to the people of South America; modern history and science cannot explain these real life accounts or this mysterious incidence taking place. There is no information of what the line of human development would be for people of an advanced past Atlantean like civilization according to the the supposed standard accepted history of the human race.
Take note that all these mysterious events were happening and occurring before the supposed evolution and development of modern day White Europeans and their respective supposed evolved societies. The modern time frame of human development and evolution is wrong and still in need of correction. The information above proves that Scientists and scholars aren’t even aware of the actual line and development of human civilizations or how many existed in history and it’s CONSTANTLY being updated, corrected and revised. Did you know that recently archaeologists found accounts and documents of a early medieval Turkish admiral with a SPECIFIC OLD MAP that showed ALL the major continents of the world (besides perhaps Australia) MAPPED OUT predating Columbus and Erik the Red’s voyage and even the Chinese, to the America’s? How could someone at that time and with the primitive level of that technology have access to that information concerning the ENTIRE WORLD? No one, not even Scientists even really know with certainty, (and this is a fact), how different human groups and how many and how old large scale human societies existed in the past. This is the flaw with arguing for and in the standard eurocentric failed inaccurate model of the world and human history.
My dear Jake,
All of your points are valid. All of your points are also irrelevant. The title of the Post is “How White Men Conquered the World” – not “How white men repeatedly tried to conquer the world and failed multiple times“.
My response to your last epistle was meant to cynically scoff at the complete irrelevance of your wonderfully well researched history lesson that served little point whatsoever. Clearly I failed miserably at the attempt.
Yes, I am very much aware of all of these things. The fact of the matter is that white people rule the world. Right now. As we speak. Pointing out how they were ill equipped and primitive in the past is therefore irrelevant.
Asserting that they were bumbling, enslaved, thieving, dolts throughout world history (much of which is debatable at best) services nothing more than to prop up people who otherwise feel insecure that white people rule the world. Therefore to assert that my post is “anthropologically inaccurate” is vacuous at best.
I’ve seen this type of response before. It is an emotional response that side steps the plain and obvious fact that white people do rule the world. In fact, if you trace the history of replies to this post, you’ll see that the very first responses were actually from a white man (a good friend of mine) who made the same claim.
His response too was emotional, but for a very different reason. His family has a dark history of racism. He however, is not racist. (You can put two and two together). Like I said, he’s a very good friend of mine.
The fundamental flaw with pointing out the history of White People’s past inferiority (imagined or otherwise) is this:
1. Even if white people stole their ideas/technologies from others, it still makes them superior for being the ones that history remembers (Zing!)
2. Even if white people didn’t invent the math and sciences that got them to where they are today, they were smarter still to apply it. (Zing!)
3. Even if white people were somehow savages that were more violent than others, it still makes them superior since they won the fight. (Zing!)
4. Even if white people were enslaved, it clearly didn’t have such an impact that it hung over their entire race for some 140+ years. (Zing!)
5. Even if white people’s dominance were somehow an accident (and given everything I’ve mentioned earlier), bear this in mind:
i. Who’s exploring deep space? White people.
ii. Who harnessed electricity? White people.
iii. Who invented radio? televison? computers? microchips? White people.
iv. Who invented the automobile? White people.
v. What is the race of the vast majority of the world’s most cutting edge scientists? White.
vi. Who’s exploring the deepest, darkest corners of the earth, discovering new species? White people.
vii. Whose languages are the most widely spoken on the planet? White people’s. (The most spoken is Mandarin, but that’s mostly concentrated in China)
viii. Who runs the world’s largest news organisations? White people.
xi. Whose governments loan the most money to the developing world? White People.
x. Who runs the wealthiest governments in the world? White people (soon to be Chinese).
…I could go on, but I think you see my point. I’m not saying that other races and peoples aren’t occasionally as brilliant, but they are few and far between (big up Neil Degrasse Tyson! Whoop! Whoop!)
Telling me about this long sordid history from the sidebar of white history that was completely inconsequential to white rule today (because it IS a reality today) is …well …inconsequential!
Finally there’s no such thing as an accident for all the same reasons there’s no such thing as luck. Human history, like everything else, is a result of two things:
1. Cause
2. Effect
Everything that happens, happened exactly the way it was supposed to happen and could not have happened any other way in this iteration of the universe. The universe always unfolds exactly as it should.
Do you believe in fate, Jake? It doesn’t matter. Fate has already decided whether or not you do. Fate has also decided, that white people, through a confluence of factors environmental and biological, have evolved to become the most intellectually, socially, politically and technologically advanced human phenotype on the planet. The function was not entirely biological (as new evidence is now showing that white people share 4% of their DNA with Neanderthals who had physically bigger brains than modern men (homosapiens).) The function was also environmental.
Through your previous post, you have given historical anecdotes which are little more than anecdotal. The vast majority of your post is attributable to environmental circumstance. If you took that away, white people who probably still rule the world. Ergo, your post (in its entirety) is inconsequential, since despite these historical challenges, they rule the world anyway.
But if you remove those environmental factors, all you are left with is the genetic factors (There are only two factors, you see) and nobody (not even you) would like to admit that white people have some biologically bespoke cognitive superiority over all others. So it’s either a confluence of both factors (nature and nurture) or a dominance of one (and it certainly isn’t nurture).
Pick your poison. (Carefully).
So let us quit this pointless debate, and argue whether nature trumps nurture.
Oh wait, that too is a pointless debate.
Finally, are you a scientist Jake? If you’re not, then where do you get off certifying that scientists don’t know what they’re talking about? Should I take the word of someone who has (obviously pretty good) cursory knowledge of the matter or someone who has dedicated the better part of their adult lives doing the same?
Sir, I had no intention to be this long, but you compelled me to respond.
Again, you are right, but for all the wrong reasons, which has nothing to do with this post.
Let’s turn our attention to a more relevant matter of discussion:
Will white people continue to rule the world? Probably. They’ve been doing it for thousands of years. I think you and I can both agree on that. Their empires will rise and fall due to both savvy and hubris (Greek, Persian, Roman, French, Ottoman, British, American, European, etc.), but they have held on to power for millennia and will probably continue to do so for centuries.
Who’s next? Probably the Chinese. But they lack the cohesive power of white men. Even if they rise, their fall will be swift.
The rest, however, as they say, is history.
Xen
Can I ask you why it takes so long for your blog to process long posts? I wrote a second response and it disappeared and said it was awaiting moderation.
Because I don’t have a secretary and I make sure to read. every. word. Nothing worse than misquoting someone. Notice this post got treated before your longer prior.