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Incredible arrogance...
Your observation remind me of the way the British Empire look at the Indian savages in 1914...
At the exact date when Littlewood and Hardy discovered the greatest genius in mathematic since Gauss, Newton and Archimedes.. Srinivasa Ramanujan who slept on palm and was self taught.....
how did you say :
" these guys got off the palm relatively recently"...
Have you studied China history in college ?
If so you must know that when the european savages were hunting China invented high productive agricultural methods and way more...
Asian national culture is noticeably different from the rest of the world.
For sure America exist since 3 centuries and are desintegrating right now and china for 3 millenia of continuity... Guess why ?
it is called traditional cultural transmission...