Not to sound mean, but is western civilization much more advanced than the rest of the world?

Of course. As for what Justice wrote in response, it's not entirely wrong, but it's one-sided. White European peoples have been enslaved, had their lands invaded and their women d. Look up the Mongols, Moors, Ottomans and the Barbary pirates, among others. To condemn one group (or an entire continent) for crimes that other groups have also committed, is at best ignorant and at worst hypocritical and bigoted.