You want to blame someone for the decline of Western Civilization and the replacement of whites with nonwhites--for the declining opportunities available to you and your children. How did we get here? For tens of thousands of years, humanity consisted of hunter-gatherer tribes
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who constantly conquered and raped and pillaged each other. Violence was ubiquitous. The development of agriculture allowed larger settlements to form, and civilization began, first in the Middle East. Organization and weapons improved, allowing the development of empires.
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Smaller tribal disputes gave way to larger wars with armies. Broader cooperation was needed to compete. NW Europe in the year 200 was only modestly civilized compared to Rome and Greece, but the spread of Christianity and the Catholic Church resulted in the break-up of tribal
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afilliations and reduced cousin marriage. IQ and cooperation was selected for during the middle ages, and the Renaissance was the eventual result.
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The printing press was invented, and pretty soon the Protestant reformation came along with the idea that people could have a personal relationship with God. Who needs the Church bureaucracy when you could read the Bible yourself?
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The power of the Church weakens, feudalism begins to fade, and parliaments are established. Ideas like equal rights under the law are established during the Enlightenment. Pretty soon many whites look around and say "hey, those slaves are people too, why don't they have rights?"
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So ideas about equality and cooperation were extended further and further, from slavery to voting to the Civil Rights Act. Whites, being fair-minded people who deeply believe in equality, listened to complaints from nonwhites of oppression and tried to make things better.
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The point here is that there's a trend from the very beginnings of civilization toward expanding circles of equality--from tribe to nation/empire to the inclusion of other racial groups, and white people have been selected more for this than any other people on the planet.
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Why haven't East Asians succumbed to this process, though?
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They're just a little behind (they don't have the pressures from centuries of Christianity and feudalism), but it appears that the Japanese and Koreans are also susceptible. I'm not as sure about the Chinese.
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