How is that world? I don't see it. I mostly follow critical race theory on the concept that race by skin colour, which did not exist a 700 years ago, and was invented by an elite group of White Europeans to gain and maintain power and to give excuse to their actions. I do not see this as very American (mainly as most American education systems outright banning the usage of this theory, and American governments recent denial of my nations' rights to define its own identity). I view race as a social concept that is fluid and has been altered repeatedly to the benefit and determent of certain groups. Irish as White did not exist in Europe over half a century ago and Jewish people with White skin are far less likely to be viewed as White in Europe today than they are in America or Canada. I view race as a social concept that is very powerful and effects every day life, even for those able to ignore their own race, the race system as it currently stands prevents the full human experience even for White people and as a power system that should be deconstructed. While critical race theory originates in America and uses a lot of American lingo, it aligns with post-colonial social theory which has it's origins in multiple African nations and liberation psychology which followed from post-colonial social theory. My viewpoint may be overly academic, which also brings in a lot of Americanisms as sadly they're seen as the top source on this issue due to European institutions and media disliking discussing issues of race very much though improving on the issue (the recent calling out of it by multiple academics and writers from colonized nations has brought this area much light, the calling out of Belgian education policies by a writer from Congo did wonders for discussion) and also because America's racial history is far more known in the UK than the racial history in Congo which is still shattered by colonial occupation or even history of Australia's history of slavery and classifying indigenous Australians as Fauna within living memory. I do not see that the critical race theory I use is either narrow or particularly aligns with the mainstream American viewpoint, but uses the American racial systems as a speaking point more for clarity on a global scale than anything.
LessMissAbs - Your comment made me laugh. Do you really think it was solely migration that brought about the prosperity? Not the usage of forced free labour for centuries, not the taking of resources from Africa, the Americas, Asia by force, not the flooding of drugs into nations to get the resources that they wanted, not the mass slaughter and genocides freeing up those national resources, not the forced migrations of others off their lands for their resources? If none of it had economic benefits, why would it have been done? It would be even worse if it was just done for fun. Look at the history of chattel slavery - it came about because the European gentry thought it was improper to work the land themselves so brought in others to do it for them, Europe's own indentured servants weren't enough man power and promised the then indentured servants and prisoners of war with appropriate skills from African nations (who unlike the people of the American nations, the skilled African workers were immune through plenty of previous contact) would be returned after serving their sentences. The European gentry lied through their teeth to get more man power for their economic benefit and kept them enslaved and then brought in race as a system to excuse and expand the system even further. Even today, with all this talk about aid, European and American nations get far more resources and wealth from poorer countries www.therules.org/ than we ever give to them. By billions. The idea it's just natural resources ignores that the system has been set up to remove the natural resources from one are to the wealthier areas.
And representation has nothing to do with natural resources but rather social systems of power. When Khan, Tonto, and even African deities are portrayed by White people and people excuse as "the best person for the job" and people go ballistic at the idea of a Black woman in King Arthur's court or little orphan Annie being played by a Black girl, the system is obviously stacked. When companies would rather spend ridiculous amounts of money to badly yellowface White actors rather than hire actual Asian ones (Cloud Atlas being the latest), the system has a problem. We're missing on a whole range of stories, perspective and potential because the system is screwed up and ignored as natural when really it's man made, man sustained, and should be taken a part. Representation and media are powerful forces which shape people's perspectives and identities and the exclusion hurts people, damages all of our realities. The doll test has been saying for decades what others have said all along, we've had repeated studies showing current media damages the self-esteem of everyone but white boys, the current system is damaging. Even in the first look at the latest marvel movie, Guardians of the Galaxy, an actor said his main motivation in taking the part is because his young son wanted rid of his dark skin colour because he doesn't see any super heroes who look like him. It's hard to see oneself if it isn't portrayed, it's hard to find people attractive if they're not seen or only in cast in unattractive roles.