I dunno if racists realize this, but Europe really sucked for most of history. People lived in filth, they were always fighting each other, and the whitest of the whites(the Vikings, etc) weren't exactly civilized beings...
Also the seem to forget how geography can affect culture. The reason China, the Middle East, and Europe were so advanced was because they're all "horizontal", to traveling is easier, since then you don't have to deal with dramatic changes in climate. Africa and the America's aren't horizontal, so there's less place to travel. They can't trade stuff as much and aren't exposed to others much.
That's not exactly true. People in Europe were actually very hygienic until after the Black Death. They were fighting one another, but so were the Muslims, Amerindians, etc. And the Vikings weren't just brutes. They were poets, merchants, and politicians. Vikings had democracy, equal rights for women, and a vast network of trade routes. Europe's people were not always better off than people in the rest of the world, but to say Europe was a shithole is a gross oversimplification.