Hi everyone,
Earlier there was a multiple page discussion that raised some points on genetic superiority. As a caucasion american female, I sometimes wonder what the dynmic is in terms of race, if any exists at all.
On one hand, I can see how some races might have advantages over others in certain areas. It's undeniable that Asians have higher IQ's on average, and we also know that African Americans need worry less about skin cancer-- so there are some easily pointed out differences between our races.
The question becomes then, about mental superiroity. I think it's fair to say that the caucasion world propogated capitalism, and even globalism. I read somewhere that England has invaded all but like 5 countries on this entire planet throughout it's history. Below is a graphic which lists the top w.e number of countries in terms of national wealth. I think it's clear these are all caucasion countries with the exception of Japan.
Japan is really a special case though because of the level and quality of investment that persisted through the 1980s after WW2. Investment in capital equipment, which averaged more than 11% of GNP during the prewar period, rose to about 20% of GNP during the 1950s and to more than 30% in the late 1960s and 1970s. During the economic boom of the late 1980s, the rate still hovered around 20%. Japanese businesses imported the latest technologies to develop the industrial base. As a latecomer to modernization, Japan was able to avoid some of the trial and error earlier needed by other nations to develop industrial processes. In the 1970s and 1980s, Japan improved its industrial base through technology licensing, patent purchases, and imitation and improvement of foreign inventions. In the 1980s, industry stepped up its research and development, and many firms became famous for their innovations and creativity. (source)
So Japan can basicly be claimed to be a product of it's early embrace of capitalism after WW2.
On the other hand, is it caucasions who propogated capitalism because they are superior? Or is it because they happened to find themselves in the fertile crecent where food is plentiful, and individuals don't have to allocate the majority of their time surviving thus allowing intellectual pursuits of arts, and new discoveries.
We can compare this to the peeps in papua new guinea who are almost stuck in time. Due to living in a dense jungle, they cannot grow high yield crops such as wheat or barley, and instead must allocate almost all their time to getting this food. 
I'd argue that it's not about our race as much as it is about our luck. The Fertile Crescent was home to the eight Neolithic founder crops important in early agriculture (i.e. wild progenitors to emmer wheat, einkorn, barley, flax, chick pea, pea, lentil, bitter vetch), and four of the five most important species of domesticated animals—cows, goats, sheep, and pigs—and the fifth species, the horse, lived nearby. (source)
These crops freed up time, and allowed for innovation in all areas of our lives including the development of an economic system which is capable of fascilitating industrial scale production, and which eventually resulted in globalization.
