[Cronos]

I don't think he did. Suppose we roll back time say 2700 years ago, around 700 BC -- at that time the places of High civilisation were in what is now Iraq, Egypt, India, Persia and China. They would have looked down on Europeans (including Greeks) as barbarians.

Sorry I err, this is not quite hte racial thing as Persians and Indians owuld belong to the same indo-European family, but the more developed branch.

Just as Europeans could be taught civilisation, so can Africans.

[propertius]

Absolutely. But they have to be taught it, don't they? And so far, not many want to learn.

The other question is whether we in the West have the moral rectitude anymore to be the teachers... That is a very debateable point.