@simao I disagree. What is “pleasing” and “acceptable” is personal preference.
The arrangement of notes indigenous to other parts of the world may very well be more pleasing to some than that which is predominant in Western-World-based arrangements of notes.
Of course, for a lot of reasons, Western-World-based views of music have dominated the globe for centuries. That is not necessarily a good thing, but it is a fact nonetheless.
Especially today, with current technology readily available to such a huge swath of the planet, one can easily access a huge chunk of the cumulative output of Planet Earth’s music. From every neck of the woods.
If one chooses to ignore non-Western music, that is their choice. In my opinion, their loss. But non-Western music is right there under everyone’s nose at virtually every second of every day.
We can talk about white supremacy, but I see no constructive outcome from saying, “music theory is white supremacy.”
Even if such an idea was proven to be somehow “truth,” what would we do then? Cease all current teachings of music theory until some U.N.-esque elected body convened to rewrite “musical theory” henceforth? What would that entail? How ultimately constructive would such a thing be?