Yeah. It is not even like Western Europeans are the traditional dominant global force. The past 500 years are more like a historical exception or blip compared to the real centres of global power, southern and eastern Asian. For most of history, Europe was the backwater.
Looking at how rapidly those countries in East and South East Asia have developed and are developing over the past quarter century, while infrastructure here in the West declines, I am not quite so sure who is deserving the moniker of "First World" anymore.
