Ok, HP let me take a ride on your racist "white man no longer on top" hypothesis! It is not difficult to sell racism
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It is indeed a weird correlation and begs the question: the lighter the skin tone... the more they end up on top! The darkest sub-Saharans… where are they, where were they? Well, clearly, they were left behind... while the lighter skins speeded up into the future conquering worlds, creating empires. Especially mellow-white knucklehead Europeans spread out mentally and physically big time, creating a New World overseas and dominating the rest in no time.
Whites starting the industrial revolution, creating modern nation states, ending slavery (a world-wide bad habit until then) starting democracies, free speech, free markets, emancipation of women and all that Jazz. Better in everything, war and genocides included as a downside. Jews, olive-white skinned, fled north where their talents were further developed and challenged. They survived many expulsions and pogroms in White Eurostan which made them have to participate in a brutal white euro-competition, further developing all kinds of survival skills without which the state of Israel would never have come into existance and - so far - persevere.
WW1 and WW2 were basically white men fighting other white men. A white-man’s civil war. The German Nazis, with their Ubermenschliches potential and technical prowess, were like an auto-immune disorder in the white-euro family. The Russian fighting machine and Bolshevik commies that made a serious dent in world history: also those damn whites again. Japanese, lighter skinned Asians, the only serious contenders during WW2. Asians in general love lighter skin tones signalling beauty, wealth, and triggering respect.
In short, there is a reason that a light-white skin color is associated with success: it is because the White-Club is the toughest league to live in and survive. It brings out the best and the worst. It is Champions League, UFC, World Chess Championship, HD IQ farming, F1 racing, the Holocaust, colonialism, subduing and exploiting many other peoples around the world... all in one. These facts beg for an explanation and is not a matter of opinion.
I myself have African roots, so it won't hurt to admit that whites are just a brand of relocated black Africans who lost their melanin over time in more northern regions. The first African migrants that migrated north and able to survive in a much colder climate became the now extinct Neanderthal. They developed extreme survival skills. In the colder "white north", they were however overrun by another wave of successful African migrants: Homo Sapiens.
Here's a theory why whites dominate:
These two African migrant powerhouses, neanderthal and Homo Sapiens, did mix their DNA, which resulted in an extremely potent hybride brown-light African: the indo-european western
Homo Sapiens Neanderthaliensis Expanditus. These tribes from east to west started to compete and fight, resulting in enormous successive empires coming and going, spanning half the globe. From Genghis Kahn to Persian Empire, Roman Empire to the New World child of Western Europe, the USA. Western light brown-white Euros now conquered pretty much the rest of the world; if not by force, then with clever money and trade.
The reason these "whitening" melanin-losing migrating African tribes colonized the rest of the world is not just of white racism, arrogance real or perceived, but because people who migrate don't stay @home where everything stays the same and not much new is learned. Instead, travelers moving into new territories are continuously exposed to new challenges. It requires more fighting and survival capabilities, the constant need to invent solutions to new problems. Also, once you push the wheels of change and they start rolling, the need to adapt and invent new solutions increases exponentially.
People who stay on the move will always win. Those who stay behind and at home go extinct. Or as another white winner Albert Einstein once remarked: "Life is like riding a bicycle: to keep your balance you have to keep moving."