How come during the cold war the only superpowers were white countries?

During the cold war, the superpowers on earth were soviet union and united states, the thing is though, both these countries had a white-majority population. So how come only white people can create super-power nations how come other races cant achieve as much as white do?|||Because the American and British government did an excellent job during WWII by placing puppet regimes in the middle east, therefore eliminating them from ever becoming super powers..|||Well, it relies more upon the location, not the makeup of the population. These things include, natural resources, the ability to be accessed to trading, ability not to be invaded militarly easily (that is, having mountains, rivers, oceans, tundra, desert, etc. these things block the way to be invaded). Also some other important factors include population, having bloc/allies, having enemies gone(most were because of WW1), and a large standing military and having a large amount of people willing to volunteer for that military(many were willing to do so after the russian revolution)





The notion that white people can only build surperpower is wrong. Be ready for China :D


I used to have this same notion as a child weird lol!|||Yeah, you have to read your Nazi literature more carefully. The USSR was full of Slavs and Asians. Hitler would not have considered them white. Today China and Japan are rising world powers. Quit being such a racist!





Moreover, the US is one of the most racially diverse countries on earth! Yes the majority was "white" during the Cold War, but we have millions from every race and ethnic group who contribute to the success of this country! Consider World War II. Ever hear of the Tuskegee Airmen? The Navajo Code Talkers? The Japanese 442nd? The many Jewish scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project? All these people helped kick Hitler's lilly white ***.|||Do you really need to ask that question? The United States is now the only successful country ever to be run by someone other than a white man. And we don't have to mention whats going on now. That is a great question though. I am going to bookmark this page because I want to see what the other races have to say. An explanation would be nice.|||Enter the new century China and India. These countries by the way and the Middle East were super powers before Europe or the USA ever was. There were great civilizations in Asia and Africa before Europe ever became relevant.





There were great civilizations in the American continent before the Europeans came and destroyed them.





In any case the first respondent is correct.





Thumbs down? Am I going to have to name them? o.k. some of them here it goes:





The Egiptians


The Babilonians


The Turks


The Huns


The Chinese


The Japanese


The Persians


The Mayans


The Aztecs


The Teotihuacans


The Incas





In November 2008, the National Intelligence Council (NIC), an affiliate of the Central Intelligence Agency, issued the latest in a series of futuristic publications intended to guide the incoming Obama administration. Peering into its analytic crystal ball in a report entitled Global Trends 2025, it predicted that America's global preeminence would gradually disappear over the next 15 years .





That, of course, was then; this -- some 11 months into the future -- is now and how things have changed.





Many of the broad, down-the-road predictions made in Global Trends 2025 have, in fact, already come to pass. Brazil, Russia, India, and China are already playing far more assertive roles in global economic affairs.





Six Signs That the American Empire Is Coming to an Early End





1. At the global economic summit in Pittsburgh on September 24th and 25th, the leaders of the major industrial powers, the G-7 (G-8 if you include Russia) agreed to turn over responsibility for oversight of the world economy to a larger, more inclusive Group of 20 (G-20), adding in China, India, Brazil, Turkey, and other developing nations.





2. According to news reports, America's economic rivals are conducting secret (and not-so-secret) meetings to explore a diminished role for the U.S. dollar in international trade.China, Russia, Japan, Brazil, and the Persian Gulf oil countries -- are considering the use of the Euro, or a "basket" of currencies, as a new medium of exchange.





3. On the diplomatic front, Washington has been rebuffed by both Russia and China in its drive to line up support for increased international pressure on Iran to cease its nuclear enrichment program.





4. Exactly the same inference can be drawn from a high-level meeting in Beijing on October 15th between Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and Iran's first vice president, Mohammed Reza Rahimi. "The Sino-Iran relationship has witnessed rapid development as the two countries' leaders have had frequent exchanges, and cooperation in trade and energy has widened and deepened," Wen said at the Great Hall of the People.





5. From Washington's point of view, efforts to secure international support for the allied war effort in Afghanistan have also met with a strikingly disappointing response. In what can only be considered a trivial and begrudging vote of support for the U.S.-led war effort, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced on October 14th that Britain would add more troops to the British contingent in that country -- but only 500 more.





6. Finally, in a move of striking symbolic significance, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) passed over Chicago (as well as Madrid and Tokyo) to pick Rio de Janeiro to be the host of the 2016 summer Olympics, the first time a South American nation was selected for the honor. Until the Olympic vote took place, Chicago was considered a strong contender.|||The Soviet was a Slavic population. Hitler considered them to be just another inferior people (which is partially why he thought that invading the Soviet Union would be a relatively simple task)|||China, USA, Soviet Union, are the big three in the super power list and have been so since the founding of the UN. Last time I checked, China was not considered a white nation.|||Well see, during the Cold War there was this itty bitty, completely unknown country with only a handful of people called China. Ever hear of them?|||That's irrelevant. If you watch national geographic we all originated from one place and expanded.





We are all 99.9% genetically the same.|||Colored countries are not interested in world domination|||I thought it was between America and Russia.