The history of ideas (the subtitle of Melvyn Bragg's Radio 4 programme, "In Our Time") is "hideously white"

I think it is fair to say that the history of ideas, certainly in so far as western civilisation is concerned, are, as the former BBC Chairman, Greg Dyke, might have put it, "hideously white". This makes me wonder what it must be like being a member of one of Britain's ethnic minorities and unable, for obvious reasons, to identify with these ideas, or generally with European history and culture, to the extent that native Europeans are able to.

Could some of the well-known social problems with black people, perhaps, to some extent, be a consequence of the difficultly they must have in identifying with and relating to European (white) society, not just as it exists at the moment, but even more, as it has existed and developed over the past 2500 years? And could it be that these social problems are generally not so evident in Chinese and Asian people living here because they have their own "high cultures" and histories to relate to and identify with?

Political correctness aside, these strike me as very important questions which someone, nowhere better than at the BBC, should raise and seek answers to.