Well, if you ask me, the answer is "it depends". But I'd say that one likely cause is the successful weaponization of guilt. Since the "white race" completely dominated the planet, special interest groups and socialists who rely on their votes, weaponize guilt and make it into a currency that can be passed through the generations.
By doing this, other groups have been able to exploit a perceived "debt" accumulated over the centuries by the "white race".
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@charliebrownau libertarian, of course I do not agree with this and it is all nonsense, but that would be my answer to your question.
If you take, again as a libertarian, race out of the equation and look at property rights and individual preference, all this implodes and rationality comes back.