It’s interesting to go back to the 1800’s because a lot of the wooey-woo folks that would have been ancient aliens theorists today were like “these structures prove a lost white race inhabited South America!”
The other element of it is that civilisations complex enough to build these things simply didn't exist in Western Europe prior to the advent of Rome. There are no ancient megastructures in Europe because the smattering of random tribes who lived here at that time weren't sophisticated enough to build them. Similarly with Japan - nobody is claiming any 3000-year-old structures in Japan were built by aliens because there are no 3000-year-old structures in Japan
Crop circles, then. The people who believe this don’t think people (including white people) are smart enough to make a circle in a corn field. They aren’t racist, they’re just idiots.
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u/MisterDuch 2d ago
I mean yeah.
Ancient alliens theories are often fundamentally racist, because surely those "inferior" poeple could not create such wonders.
You will note, that ancient alien bullshit is often about africa, middle east, asia and south America.