Is there a country on Earth where Caucasians are "thriving"?

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Not true in most parts of NYC.

If there's a fireworks show, you'll find representatives of ALL races there. Perhaps even Amazonians.

Possibly Fiji.

The whites there are a generally far more privileged minority in terms of wealth, education and advantage (either acquired in other countries, or by inheritance, brought with them as immigrant residents). Most that I know of have settled there for commercial reasons - cheap labour, cheap operating costs, while still being able to access international markets. Others are professionals eg engineers involved in long term development projects at high wages that the native population are largely excluded from.

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Someone mentioned New Zealand. Whites are not a minority group in NZ, they are a very dominant majority, and power sharing is far being from completed ideal here.

Trinidad and Tobago is similar to Fiji.

The white people don't tend to "mix" with the Indian/Black majority. They tend to live in enclaves, and to be generally well-off. They do have the Trini accent, though.

I think the same may be true of Cambodia. The New Zealanders who I know of who live there are retirees who chose it because of their economic advantage, they can live like kings in Cambodia in a way not possible in their own country, enjoying a level of advantage that was destroyed for Cambodians by the crazed tyranny of the tragic years of internal oppression (and the particular genocide of educated Cambodians by Pol Pot), the carpet bombing years of intervention by the US, the way that survivors had to flee as refugees (a number came to New Zealand and have thrived here, very hard working, self-sufficient, polite people who are extremely family oriented. They integrated here more successfully than many other groups). Whites who settle in the third world generally seem to enjoy a level of privilege that is intrinsically related to their motives for going to live there.

The NZ-settled Cambodian family that I know best fled from the insanity of Pol Pot over the border to Thailand, where they spent 7 years in a refugee camp before being resettled by the UN to New Zealand. They arrived in the 1980s with no financial assets left, with no knowledge of English language or culture. They have acquired all of these things by their own determination in the years since, and assimilated into the wider culture as bilingual people who have very successfully integrated as bicultural citizens.

New Zealand has also been a new home for a great many white South Africans who came here when their institutionalised privilege ended in South Africa. Some arrived with the (mistaken) idea that their racism would successfully transplant here and be tolerated without challenge. Others fled because they hated the racism in South Africa and saw New Zealand as a country that was not as contaminated by it.

White people are the majority on four of six inhabited continents.

To be honest I don't know how to answer the OP question because one can define "thriving" any number of ways. I'm not being an aspie a-hat here for a philosophical point, I'm curious are we talking wealth, population, raw power or a mix? I say this because if we look at say Mexico, the majority population is a mulatto, but the white aristocrats from the left-over Spanish empire still control a large portion of power through politics and economy-- same for a lot of South American countries and some African countries.

I'm not clear either, what the OP actually meant by "it sucks to be white", and a further confusion is the thread title of "is there any country on Earth where Caucasians are thriving?" How are these supposed to be parsed together?

OP were you meaning to imply that Caucasians are relatively disadvantaged compared to other groups in a global sense? Or what?