Bidhan wrote: "Another slave of whilte is loote" thanks for keeping a judgmental opinion about me... i appreciate that. i also appreciate the attachments that you have put...yes no one is denying that china could well take over the world with their economic prosperity. while there are economists who believe that china will be next power station in 20-30 years, there are analysts who keep the views that probably it would be difficult for them to overcome the political seclusion which can/may hinder their prospect of becoming the "supermo". another thing that you failed to comprehend is its not about how many asians work and publish papers for IEEE. surely there are more non-american or shall i say non-white students in gradauate level. BUT the fact is they go to universities in US and EU...do you know how many whites go to study in china or in india? ============= Captain Haddock, i am sorry if i sounded offending and naive in my last post...i tried to look upon "sidster's questions in particular" with my understanding and i don't claim that i assumed wearing a hat of intelligence while writing my views..i am a learner and i don't mind if someone says "you don't know" coz that opens another area for me to explore and learn and i love it..:) my ideas were based upon my own experience and observation. i have not read a whole lot pertaining to human civilizations as you seem to have and let me tell you that although we may have digressed from the topic a bit, i loved reading your informative posts...so please be my guest :). i was not concluding anything subtly in my last posts. as a matter of fact i started appending from where you left... i don't agree either with what you claimed the premises of sidster's queries as "whites have a genetic predisposition to superior intelligence". i have clearly said that no one is superior or inferior in terms of genes they possess. i have just tried to project perspectives on whose bases whites (not as a race or civilization alone. don't take me otherwise when i say "whites"..it implies to westerners and citizens of developed nations with the likes of US and EU) are better off at status quo. there are no racial prejudices involved in my reply... You wrote: "Faraday being caucasian had nothing to do with his discovery/invention of modern electric technology. Anyone who grew up with the opportunities Faraday got is as likely to have done the same." --that in my opinion is a weak assumption. if that was true, all successful and famous persons in nepal would be from kathmandu only because ktm have more and better opportunities than other cities. "Why a country or civilization (or even a race for that matter) is better of and more powerful than the other has more to do with their use of technology, weaponry and geographic happenstance, to borrow the idea from Jared Diamond" --true that. that is exactly my point in the last post. invention and novel ideas alone do not make a country/civilization/race superior. they need to find their applications and exploit the idea--exactly what US and EU have been doing. the bottom line is that almost all other countries apart from US and EU where whites don't reside as a majority have one or more internal problems, which are screwing them up big time from being competitive enough for being a supermo. if india was better off than US, then chances were brown people would dominate. but thanks to their own problems of population, slavery, slum and poverty. i don't deny that this dominance of whites may change or shift over time but at the moment they are pretty much dominant. LooTe