It can be presumed that the very first sub-humans to shed their coating of hair and begin to “look human” had the fairly dark or dark skin that is typical of apes and monkeys.
As time passed different bodily characteristics and skin colors arose in different parts of the planet because of environmental influences that included the climate and the diet.
Those in equatorial and warm areas where there was lots of sunshine developed skins that ranged from black to brown, while those in cooler climates with less sunshine became fair or white skinned.
These differences were to play fundamental roles in the future of mankind from that time on. Members of each of these groups no doubt considered themselves superior to the others, and when there was contact between them conflicts were inevitable, with the larger and more powerful groups dominating the others.
While historical records are sketchy, it seems that human beings began to collect in larger and larger groups in Asia, Africa and what is referred to as the Near East and Middle East around 10,000 years ago.
Historians say that these groups became more and more “civilized” as the centuries passed, with the first “nation states” appearing between 7,000 and 4,000 BC.
That is very, very late in the overall history of homo sapiens but it seems that the evolution of the human brain was a slow process but once it reached a certain point it speeded up.
In any event by 2,000 BC there were sophisticated brown, black and white nations in all of the above regions of the Earth, with those on the North and South American continents—the Incas and Aztecs—appearing sometime later.
Then civilizations of the browns and blacks began to decline. The exceptions to this were the Incas of Peru and the Aztecs of Mexico. They continued to flourish until they were destroyed by invading white armies from Spain in the first decades of the 1500s.
In contrast to this, white civilizations in the Near East and Middle East continued to grow in sophistication. Rome appeared about 2,600 years ago and Greece about 2,400 years ago.
But it was not until about 1700 A.D. that whites began to dominate the world. This rapid emergence of whites as the power brokers of the world came about because of the Industrial Revolution that began in the early 1700s in England and quickly spread to other European nations.
Industrialization began in England because the necessary ingredients were there—Iron and coal; thinkers and inventors who could communicate freely; lack of internal tariffs and other political interference; a large efficient agricultural industry that left many men available for other kinds of work; convenient access to river ways and oceans with readily available ports, and a number of inventions and innovations that led to the assembly line method of manufacturing.
The rapid advance of the English and other European economies resulted in them building large fleets of commercial and military ships, becoming international traders on a massive scale, and invading and colonizing the less advanced black and brown countries around the world.
Another factor in this rapid white domination of the world was the one-God based Catholic Church, which was determined to Christianize the planet.
From the first European voyages of discovery that took whites to Asia and the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries it became the goal of the Catholic hierarchy to spread the religion as far and as wide as possible.
The Catholic Church and its catholicized government allies, particularly Portugal and Spain, assumed that the native people of the rest of the world had no rights to their lands and that the Church was obeying God’s command to Christianize them by force if necessary. Catholic priests accompanied all of the Spanish and Portuguese armies that invaded the New World and Asia.
Many native populations on the Caribbean islands and other places were simply wiped out because they could not cope with the military power and aggressive cultures of the white European nations.
There were three major exceptions in Asia—China, Korea and Japan. These nations had powerful armies of their own and religions that were more practical, humane and philosophical than Christianity, and were able to avoid being conquered.
Thus it came about that race and color played a key role in the history of the world, with whites eventually emerging as the dominate color and a highly discriminating one-God religion continuing to be a primary justification in their conquests.
But as it has turned out no religion and no philosophy has ever had the power to reprogram the basic mindset of enough human males to result in peaceful, progressive societies. On the contrary, virtually all societies are now more violent than what they were in the past and the prevailing morality is money, not religion.
That said, most religions would never survive on their beliefs and teachings alone. They must have rituals, costumes, other paraphanaila and buildings to impress their followers.
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Boyé Lafayette De Mente has been involved with Asia since the late 1940s as a member of a U.S. intelligence agency, journalist and editor. He is a graduate of Jōchi University in Tokyo, Japan and Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona, USA. In addition to books on the business practices, social behavior and languages of China, Japan, Korea and Mexico he has written extensively about the plague of male dominance and the moral collapse of the U.S. and the Western world in general. Recent books include: CHINA Understanding & Dealing with the Chinese Way of Doing Business; JAPAN Understanding & Dealing with the NEW Japanese Way of Doing Business; AMERICA’S FAMOUS HOPI INDIANS; ARIZONA’S LORDS OF THE LAND [the Navajos] and SPEAK JAPANESE TODAY – A Little Language Goes a Long Way! To see a full list of his 60-plus books go to: http://www.authorsonlinebookshop.com. All of his titles are available from Amazon.com.
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