Western culture is a broad term for traditions from Europe, rooted in Greco-Roman philosophy, Christianity, and Enlightenment ideals. It has influenced Western Europe, the Americas and the regions of Australia. Because of western culture’s elements of capitalism and individualism, western culture has also sought to explore and often exploit other regions of the globe…This has been known as “colonization”, a term that I believe is blatantly overused these days.

According to Wikipedia, Nearly 60% of the world’s population lives in Asia, with more than 2.8 billion in the countries of India and China combined. The percentage shares of China, India and rest of South Asia of the world population have remained at similar levels for the last few thousand years of recorded history. Racially speaking, the people living in these regions are quite homogeneous. Note that western “colonization”, at least racially, has never been prevalent in Asia although the western culture of capitalism, or a form of it, is present.

Contemporary anthropologists and other scientists, while recognizing the reality of biological variation between different human populations, regard the concept of a unified and distinguishable white race as a social construct with no scientific basis. Prior to the modern era, no European peoples regarded themselves as “White” and instead defined their identity in terms of their religion, ancestry, ethnicity, or nationality. Pre-modern descriptions of race focused on physical complexion rather than on the idea of race.

In the U.S., the term Caucasian is used as a synonym for people considered “white” or of European, Middle Eastern, or North African ancestry for census purposes. I would have to say that this definition is certainly a construct. Furthermore, Hispanic or Latino origin is asked separately as an ethnicity, not a race, although people of Hispanic origin can choose any race. A construct? Yup.

Of the 8.2 billion people on the globe there are approximately 1.6 billion black people and 1 to 1.5 billion “white” people. These numbers combined with the Asian population of 2.8 billion result in about 2 or more billion people being of other races or “complexion”. What do these numbers tell us? White supremacy is a myth…It would be more accurate to say that the globe has capitalism supremacy.

People of all races and ethnicities use trade with each other to help their particular societies develop and thrive. Those societies that isolate themselves do so at their own peril. This includes cartels that trade in illicit goods and services because their practices are not transparent.

Transparent trading partners bring peace and prosperity to all people on the globe. Anyone who decries white supremacy is an isolationist and wants to cheat in a transparently fiscal ecosystem. And if you’re cheating you’re probably doing something else like lying and plotting against the others, typical addiction behaviors obviously. A reality we are now seeing play out in many regions.

The next time you hear someone blaming white supremacy for something, try to discern their ultimate motive for doing this. Maybe the blame should be on their own nontransparent practices regardless of their skin color?