That's the harsh reality. Despite your biggest wishes, the modern civilization didn't follow African design. It was never borne there, as you can see that we aren't living in mud-huts and curing AIDS with shamanic rituals. It didn't follow Asian design, either, for the most part - instead, it's asians that submitted to our ways and copied the success. They've caught on the fancy machines, the advanced rifles, the technology. Visit modern Asia and see how it desperately wants to be white.
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Indeed. Who needs things like Arabic numerals (Middle east / West Asia), paper (Egypt (i.e. papyrus) ), the compass, gunpowder (China), or calendars (MezoAmerica)? The world's progress is clearly all thanks to us whiteys.
"It didn't follow Asian design, either, for the most part - instead, it's asians that submitted to our ways and copied the success. They've caught on the fancy machines, the advanced rifles, the technology."
THE HELL?!! Asians (especially the Chinese) had complex civilizations, actual paper, paper money, beautiful intricate textiles, performed great architectural feats like The Great Wall and had such things as gunpowder & fireworks displays while you whitey were living in mud huts in Ol' Europa! The Asian nations were very innovative.
In India, there's the long-lost Harappan culture which had large, complex cities, complete with plumbing & sewers...and may predate Mesopotamia! Human Civilization may have actually started in India!
(If the original European tribes had never been displaced by Indo-European invaders that become the ancestors of scum like Torture-Device.)
(If the Chinese had not halted their expeditions and discovered America)
(If Charles Martel had lost at Tours and Islam had managed to take over Europe)
(If the Ottomans had survived World War 1 and became a world power)
... and so on. Europe was one of the few places with the resources to become a world power, but it wasn't the only one, and their success has nothing to do with ethnicity.
If you like silk, wear pajamas, drink tea, and like to watch fireworks from the veranda of your bungalow, you can thank the Bengalis for inventing all of it and the Chinese for developing most of it.
"Aryans", properly speaking, are speakers of Indo- Iranian languages. Guess where they live, and what most of them look like?...
You know, the only reason that Europeans dominated the world for some time was because Europe started recovering from its decline at the same time that other places began to decline. Had the Chinese gone east instead of west, they would have discovered America about 100 years before Columbus, which probably would've prevented their stagnation. Had the Native Americans been resistant to Old World diseases, they most likely would have kept their civilizations intact and modernized when Europe did. All this is is luck; the very fact that there are some very successful non-white societies out there proves that aptly-named Nazi's assertion that whites are gentically superior is BULLCRAP.
Ours is indeed an unprecedented level of societal and technological copyright infringement. Does that make me any less proud to be a part of the culture that reaped the benefits of foreign efforts? No, it does not. Today we continue to refine and improve upon 'borrowed' ideas and I like to think we do as much as we can to share the results.
I respect the great works of the world's many nations, but that does not mean I exalt them above my own country. Just as loving my country doesn't mean I spit on the rest of the world.
I forgot to mention this earlier, but I need to elaborate ob what I had previouly said.
Those Asian nations (which Torture-Device thinks somehow "stole" the accomplishments of white Europeans) were the only parts of the world outside of Europe to never be a colony of a European nation. Don'tcha think that maybe never being oppressed has something to do with how well they currently have it?
Also, at what point does a society count as having made its own innovations? Had this conversation occurred 500 years ago, I could easily imagine the Arabic equivalent of Torture-Device saying something like "Our civilization doesn't follow European design either, for the most part - instead, it's the Europeans that submitted to our ways and copied our success. They've caught onto the place-value numerals, the scientific method, the technology." A Chinese version of Torture-Device from that same time would probably add that Gutenberg stole the idea of the printing press from the Chinese.
Really, considering that science is a collaborative process, the very idea that "the furriners stoled our advances!" is absurd. I'm sure our lovely OP believes that Einstein stole the theory of relativity from Schwarzschild or something. The fact that there have been great people of all races, and the fact that there is no scientific evidence of race whatsoever means that the OP is completely delusional. This cannot be stressed enough.
I'm gonna take a wild guess this guy has never heard of the Egyptian Empire (some of them were black), the Nubian Empire, the Axum Empire, the Somali Empire, the Swahili city-state kingdoms, the Mali/Songhai Empire, the Oyo Empire, the Hausa State, the Igbo State, the Kanem-Bornu Empire, the Ashanti Empire, the Benin Kingdom, Great Zimbabwe, the Nok Civilization, the Urewe Civilization, Tichitt Walata, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Africa
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912179,00.html?iid=chix-sphere
Lol
Visit modern Asia and see how it desperately wants to be white.
There are two conflicting stereotypes about Asians. 1) That we are sooo desperate to be white which proves how racist we are and
2) That we are cultural supremacists which AGAIN proves how racist we are.
IMO this only proves that Western stereotypes about Asians are totally retarded.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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