Tunisian president clearly has low regard for dark-skinned Africans

Tunisia President Kais Saied. He denounced undocumented sub-Saharan African immigration to his country on Tuesday. [AP photo]

There are layers of snobbery in the way countries relate to each other. Manifested in a global hierarchy of power practice, this implies the existence of geopolitical Darwinism in which big powers believe they are the fittest and have the right to dominate others.

The United States, for instance, leads the conceptual West in looking down on other countries. In turn, big players in Western Europe look down on other Europeans who similarly look down on those not of European extraction. Collectively, countries in the conceptual West believe they are the global 'garden' and that other countries constitute a big jungle to be tamed.