Yes, actually.
Much of white history has us profiting from or arguing over who gets to go to India to get spices. This in turn affected Indian history by empowering the spice-selling Tamil kings.
Chilis were spread by the Spanish in the 16th century, long enough that even far away southeast asia has it's own varietals. It's too long ago. Anyway my little racists, tasteless white people food is a midwestern thing and probably has to do with TAS2R38. Personally I can take about 200k scoville, anything hotter is too disruptive to the bowels to be enjoyable.
