[Vaquero]

I like to think that my European ancestors were different from other peoples from other parts of the world and that difference is why Western Civilization is the Gold Standard round the globe.

http://home.entouch.net/dmd/neanev.htm

[Strategerist]

In many cases there are vast differences between what people "like to think" and reality.

No evidence of neanderthal ancestry for modern humans, though it's clear there's a fringe obsessed with this idea.

[Question_Assumptions]

Western civilization is not racial. People of other ancestry really have no problem picking it up. Don't forget that the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian elements of Western Civilization were not native to Northern and Western Europe and were adopted by the people there fairly recently, in the big scheme of things. And if you haven't noticed, the Europeans haven't been doing a very good job of maintaining Western civilization lately.