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Ok, and we have pretty much unbroken historical records about the construction of those. That doesn't really leave much room for people to invent theories about aliens doing it. Notice that there also aren't a lot of theories about how great structures in China were built, as we have well preserved history for those, too. On the other hand, we do have people theorizing that Stonehedge was built by aliens, despite being an "ancient structure built by white people". We don't have any historical records for that structure.
That all said, I'm not really buying that theories about aliens building things are racist. It seems to have much more to do with which structures we still have the history for and which ones we do not.
It mostly stems from racist or colonial sentiments. It's a little bit dishonest to insinuate that really it's unbroken historical records that assuage ancient alien theory and not the racist notion that "savage races couldn't have possibly built this".