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That is the great double standard at work today. There are one set of universalist principles for whites and another set of particularist principles for everyone else.

The so-called 'white culture' IS the universal culture. It has the best many cultures had to offer: Greek, Judaic, Arab, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Anglo-Saxon, French, German, Russian and whatever was worth taking from other minor ones. The fact that nothing or not enough of whatever some inferior cultures might have produced it usually because their contribution was just that - inferior.

The multicultural/diversity drive is that of forcing the civilized world to accept the products of inferior cultures as if they were as valuable as the those who found themselves a place within the 'universal' one. The only way 'barbarians' can participate is by first asimilating. There is also the option of them (the barbarians) trying to destroy that which is superior so that only the inferior products are left (see the Talibans bombarding the Buddha statues).

You're right in saying that European "culture" is universal in nature. Ours is a culture based upon universal principles that apply to everyone. Our "rights" are simply not for white people, for brown people, for Christians or Jews. They apply to everyone equally. And this is true in a political sense, since the Natural Rights tradition is based upon the idea of universal human nature that is the same everywhere, in every culture.

Of course, this tradition has been under attack for well over a hundred years. The latest assault has taken the form of deconstructing the tradition to show that it is, in fact, and oppressive system of control.

The problem, so far as political philosophy is concerned, is to reconcile the natural rights teaching with the demands of modern natural science. Some sort of teleological basis for normative values is what is lacking.