UNESCO keeps a list of World Heritage Sites. The list provides us with a way to determine which populations have contributed more to Civilization while side stepping the accusation of Euro-centric bias. (If the UN is not a sorce for World Opinion™, nothing is.)
Who Has Contributed More?
|Observe that the distribution of natural sites is more evenly distributed among the regions than the cultural ones are. This provides us with a rough baseline for comparing populations and their cultural contributions. People don’t create natural sites. Nature does. The people who live there can not claim credit for having created them. Cultural sites, on the other hand, are man made. People can claim credit.
The regional ranking of world cultural sites is as follows:
Euro-America > Asia-Pacific > Caribo-America > Arabia > Africa.
The West beats the East. The Old World beats the New. Everyone beats Africa.
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