remain the only generalizations acceptable to make. Whereas specific questions about specific claims made about non-Western countries are batted away as though they could not possibly contain any merit and are in fact presumptuous even to raise. What is anyone from the West—let alone a white person from the West—to do in such a setup? To date only a few options have been made available. One is to raise the next generation of people in the West with a sense that they are the heirs of an illegitimate, ill-gotten fortune.
