With all due respect, my friend, this is delusional talk. I believe from past discussions that you are familiar with KSA, at least more than people who only know headlines in Western media and general propaganda.
We Arabs are ethnically Caucasian people ourselves racially. Even racist European/American "race experts" from 300-100 years ago, when racism was a normal and slavery a normal in Europe/West (in other words what today would be considered as openly racist views), considered this to be the case. Something that genetics/DNA also confirm given that Europeans are an extension of Middle Eastern peoples racially.
en.wikipedia.org
There are plenty of completely pale Saudi Arabians. So skin color has nothing to do with this. The average Arab/Saudi Arabian is olive skinned/brown and even the pale among us have features that differentiate us from Northern Europeans obviously, just as there are obvious similarities with many Southern Europeans "next door".
The idea that KSA does not buy from fellow "brown people", is nonsense. Have you seen the recent close and increasing cooperation with Turkey?
Have you seen that KSA is flooded with non-White expats, many well-educated and in high positions?
The reason why Western products are regarded higher, as is the case almost everywhere in the world, has ZERO to do with skin color, in particular in a country like KSA where you have locals of every race (Caucasian/Middle Eastern/olive skin/Afro-Arab/Indonesian/Turkic Central Asian/even Chinese Hui/every Muslim ethnic group you can think of due to 1400 years of Hajj and Umrah etc., is due to until very recently Europe/West having a MONOPOLY on technology on EVERY front.
We do not have the complexes that other (many) Muslim and non-Muslim communities have (Chinese included who used to pay 1000's of dollars to European origin people just to attend parties/night clubs - well-known) because we were never colonized by Westerners/Europeans. In fact we ruled very large parts of Southern Europe from Iberia (Portugal and Spain) to Greece in the East for 800 years depending on the region, Our influence to this day being felt all across Southern Europe (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Malta, Greece, Cyprus etc.) in the form of architecture, almost 30 World UNESCO Heritage Sites, cuisine, architecture, music, DNA of locals, art, agriculture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Agricultural_Revolution , language (20-30% of all Spanish and Portuguese is of Arabic origin) and you name it.
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With KSA rapidly developing scientifically, in terms of industries etc. we will look less at the West as something to emulate.
In fact KSA/GCC is far ahead compared to much of Europe and even the US in terms of many aspects, digitalization, less bureaucracy, personal wealth etc.
Race in KSA played very little role, a Afro-Arab person belonging to a well-known Saudi Arabian/Arab tribe had (historically) a higher status than the Arab city dweller who could not document his ancestry. I am surprised that an individual that has apparently visited KSA multiple times is unaware of the above that I have written.
Which is why race was never an element in KSA/much of the Arab world in terms of politics or even influence. Unlike as in other ME countries, without mentioning any here by name.
I will give you an example.
10 years ago when King Abdullah died the Crown Prince became this guy.
en.wikipedia.org
You know the origin of his mother? A former Black Ethiopian slave.
Seriously, I should not even be posting this post to begin with.
Qatar is closer to KSA than even Turkey. We are the same people and Qatar is an extension of KSA. The royal family of Qatar is originally from Najd and still retain villas and family homes in their ancestral villages across Najd. KSA and Qatar are very close nowadays and a direct high-speed railway was just announced last month when Tamim and MbS met. Linking Riyadh with Doha directly. We are on the same page on every regional (that I can think of) conflict and issue nowadays. There was the split 7-8 years ago but it was relatively quickly solved between KSA and Qatar. Things are still a bit sour between Qatar and UAE, Bahrain etc. But there were never any problems with locals, just like today there is no problem between Saudi Arabians and Emirati peoples.
Arab regime politics and problems (like between every country of the world - allies or no allies) has nothing to do with how we Arabs feel towards each other. There were never any problems and never will be. Same with Northern Yemenis and Saudi Arabians. Houthis are here completely irrelevant. This should all be obvious even for non-Arabs here. Most Pakistanis and Afghans (normal) don't have much problems with each other either. Some Pakistanis and Indians have good ties even, seen it in the West and GCC myself and know of such people personally. World is much more complicated than political headlines.
