I mean he's not really wrong, regardless of his malice. You have to factor in that 1) Even though America also gets the poorest and least educated immigrants, it also tends to drain countries of their brighter people too. 2) Asians are the majority race on the planet. So by sheer volume, there will be a lot of intelligent people, but by percentage? Well there's hundreds of millions of rural asians. Let's also not forget that in places like China, rote memorization is the typical form of education, and while it has its uses, it's not exactly intelligence. It's just putting text books into peoples memory for recall. Critical thinking is far more important when it comes to a true measure of intelligence, because a critical thinker with no learning at all, can be more capable than a rote memorization learner.
For the most part, in comparison to the 19th and 20th century advances, asian countries have been pretty stagnant for the last 1000+ years. They may have had early and long empires, but not much changed technologically or in the general way people lived their lives. The fact is, while asian countries may have contributed some more primitive technologies that were built upon (drastically to the point that there's basically no credit due...I mean for example, would it be fair to give asians credit for all the weapons created because they discovered gun powder? There's soo many principles at work, that it wouldn't be. And discovery is great and all, but it's not exactly invention considering how very simplistic the ingredients are), the principle driving force for advancement in all asian countries, has been the west.
If the west had kept its technologies over the last few centuries as closely guarded secrets and successfully kept them from being stolen, the western world would look like the city of atlantis to asian countries today. It's only as a result of that open sharing (and of course IP theft) that asian countries today are what they are. Most western countries are built on the backs of their ancestors. Asian countries today are built on the backs of the west and the wests ancestors.
And let's also not forget that when it comes to western education, well asians have also been given preferential treatment when it comes to admissions and free education in good schools. Let's also not forget that outright buying fake education credentials is a huge booming business in asia. I recall the statistics being more than half of the people coming over from asia on visa's with higher educations, actually have entirely fake diploma's. While in the western world, fake diploma's are practically non existent among the native populace.
You also have to wonder if the same lowering of standards given to blacks at all levels of education, were also extended to asians. So here you might have an asian guy with a fake diploma, coming to America, getting into American colleges, and dragging by in reality, but falsely excelling on paper. Then goes off to get hired to a great job where they just manage to eek by, because most jobs don't really require actual higher learning, it's just a barrier to entry, thus their true lack of intelligence isn't noticed. But I've seen stories where people have used fake diploma's and got into fields of work knowing they were over their heads, kept their heads down, and managed to get away with it. So you can say X person has X degree and got X job sounds good on paper, but in reality it could be a totally different story. A lot of reality is hidden behind face value statistics.
Considering China's tactics, you have to wonder if the Chinese government itself is aiding in getting people higher educations in the west in order to get them into high level positions in western companies. That means the government itself could be giving them cheat cards to boost their grades, where they will be introduced to connections that get them into cushy positions, while actually not being exceptional at all. After all, we do know that the Chinese government watches its citizens closely when they're getting education abroad. It's just logical that they would be gaming our education system to get accredited degree's into the hands of people who could be called upon to do the bidding of the government. It's logical the number on that would have to be more than 0.
You have to ask yourself, if asians are the top of the intelligence food chain, why is China, with its 1.4 billion people, still primarily one that focuses on IP theft and reverse engineering? So the numbers are all simply fluffed more than you realize, and obviously there is great incentive to do so. If you can make people think you're the best, do you actually need to be the best? And with places like China effectively wanting to subjugate the world to their will....do they even need to be the best if they can just make the best of the rest of the countries of the world do their bidding for them? Dumb kings and smart slaves can make that dumb king appear much smarter than they actually are.
To answer your long rambling post, the Northern Europeans did nothing of note for thousands of years until the post-Roman Medieval era. During that time the Mediterraneans, Northern Africans, Middle Eastern, and Far Eastern civilizations fluorished. There was a few hundred years of stagnation of the great empires in the Middle East and Far East, but you're held back with a recency bias. And now the West is beginning to decline and other areas are rising. Instead of being angry about it, the West needs to change our views and disavow ideologies that are holding us back.
If the west had kept its technologies over the last few centuries as closely guarded secrets and successfully kept them from being stolen, the western world would look like the city of atlantis to asian countries today. It's only as a result of that open sharing (and of course IP theft) that asian countries today are what they are.
Do you realize that only 2 civilizations independently discovered the wheel? If the East sequestered itself, the West would not have risen.
You have a flawed understanding of both history and anthropology which is why your analysis is incorrect.
The problem is you have to get very primitive. Do you think that given enough time, the wheel would have not been invented everywhere independently? Sure, the same could be said about any technology. But if it wasn't for the west, asia wouldn't even have computers today. If asia was completely isolated on another world, how long might it have taken asia to develop that far....if ever? If it took them another 2,000 years to develop that, would that really make it of any significance? Because a 2,000 year head start on that kind of technology, would make for pretty tremendous differences. It'd be like an alien civilization vs people of the 1950's.
There is however, not much difference between a civilization with a wheel and a civilization without a wheel. As great as the wheel was, it is functionally insignificant on its own. The wheel is also easily copied....all you have to do is see one. If a cave man see's a skyscraper, he can't copy that. If a guy from the 1800's see's a micro processor, he can't copy that. Heck, even the technology that China uses to reverse engineer technology, is technology they have not invented. Much of their advancements came when the US moved manufacturing there, which was a huge mistake, because it gave them direct access to fabrication of technology that they wouldn't have otherwise been able to copy without access to those fabrication processes.
Yeah someone invented the wheel, someone invented algebra, but who utilized it best and built soo far beyond it that the underlying ancient principles behind it, no longer make up the bulk of the credit for modern invention? You can say nothing would exist without the wheel.....but the wheel also wouldn't be much without the benefit of all that came after it. The western world accomplished more in the last 200 years than the asian world accomplished in the last 2,000 years.
But I'm interested, what ideologies are holding us back? I hope you don't mean inclusion. Because that's certainly not what's holding us back, it's what's crushing us by allowing us to be usurped, siphoned from, and crippled. That doesn't mean that countries of the world can't benefit from working together, but when the citizens of countries are usurped within their own borders, that is primarily a one sided deal. If there's any point where the playing field became uneven, it's at least when Bill Clinton gave asia the favored trade partner status that robbed the US of advantages it developed by giving those advantages away. And the US has been suffering the consequences of that for the last 30 years. But the blame is not entirely on Bill Clinton. He was just doing exactly what the Chinese wanted him to do.
It's not even true. Are you acting like Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan don't even exist?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/duncanmadden/2019/01/11/ranked-the-25-smartest-countries-in-the-world/?sh=35f8a064163f
I mean he's not really wrong, regardless of his malice. You have to factor in that 1) Even though America also gets the poorest and least educated immigrants, it also tends to drain countries of their brighter people too. 2) Asians are the majority race on the planet. So by sheer volume, there will be a lot of intelligent people, but by percentage? Well there's hundreds of millions of rural asians. Let's also not forget that in places like China, rote memorization is the typical form of education, and while it has its uses, it's not exactly intelligence. It's just putting text books into peoples memory for recall. Critical thinking is far more important when it comes to a true measure of intelligence, because a critical thinker with no learning at all, can be more capable than a rote memorization learner.
For the most part, in comparison to the 19th and 20th century advances, asian countries have been pretty stagnant for the last 1000+ years. They may have had early and long empires, but not much changed technologically or in the general way people lived their lives. The fact is, while asian countries may have contributed some more primitive technologies that were built upon (drastically to the point that there's basically no credit due...I mean for example, would it be fair to give asians credit for all the weapons created because they discovered gun powder? There's soo many principles at work, that it wouldn't be. And discovery is great and all, but it's not exactly invention considering how very simplistic the ingredients are), the principle driving force for advancement in all asian countries, has been the west.
If the west had kept its technologies over the last few centuries as closely guarded secrets and successfully kept them from being stolen, the western world would look like the city of atlantis to asian countries today. It's only as a result of that open sharing (and of course IP theft) that asian countries today are what they are. Most western countries are built on the backs of their ancestors. Asian countries today are built on the backs of the west and the wests ancestors.
And let's also not forget that when it comes to western education, well asians have also been given preferential treatment when it comes to admissions and free education in good schools. Let's also not forget that outright buying fake education credentials is a huge booming business in asia. I recall the statistics being more than half of the people coming over from asia on visa's with higher educations, actually have entirely fake diploma's. While in the western world, fake diploma's are practically non existent among the native populace.
You also have to wonder if the same lowering of standards given to blacks at all levels of education, were also extended to asians. So here you might have an asian guy with a fake diploma, coming to America, getting into American colleges, and dragging by in reality, but falsely excelling on paper. Then goes off to get hired to a great job where they just manage to eek by, because most jobs don't really require actual higher learning, it's just a barrier to entry, thus their true lack of intelligence isn't noticed. But I've seen stories where people have used fake diploma's and got into fields of work knowing they were over their heads, kept their heads down, and managed to get away with it. So you can say X person has X degree and got X job sounds good on paper, but in reality it could be a totally different story. A lot of reality is hidden behind face value statistics.
Considering China's tactics, you have to wonder if the Chinese government itself is aiding in getting people higher educations in the west in order to get them into high level positions in western companies. That means the government itself could be giving them cheat cards to boost their grades, where they will be introduced to connections that get them into cushy positions, while actually not being exceptional at all. After all, we do know that the Chinese government watches its citizens closely when they're getting education abroad. It's just logical that they would be gaming our education system to get accredited degree's into the hands of people who could be called upon to do the bidding of the government. It's logical the number on that would have to be more than 0.
You have to ask yourself, if asians are the top of the intelligence food chain, why is China, with its 1.4 billion people, still primarily one that focuses on IP theft and reverse engineering? So the numbers are all simply fluffed more than you realize, and obviously there is great incentive to do so. If you can make people think you're the best, do you actually need to be the best? And with places like China effectively wanting to subjugate the world to their will....do they even need to be the best if they can just make the best of the rest of the countries of the world do their bidding for them? Dumb kings and smart slaves can make that dumb king appear much smarter than they actually are.
To answer your long rambling post, the Northern Europeans did nothing of note for thousands of years until the post-Roman Medieval era. During that time the Mediterraneans, Northern Africans, Middle Eastern, and Far Eastern civilizations fluorished. There was a few hundred years of stagnation of the great empires in the Middle East and Far East, but you're held back with a recency bias. And now the West is beginning to decline and other areas are rising. Instead of being angry about it, the West needs to change our views and disavow ideologies that are holding us back.
Do you realize that only 2 civilizations independently discovered the wheel? If the East sequestered itself, the West would not have risen.
You have a flawed understanding of both history and anthropology which is why your analysis is incorrect.
The problem is you have to get very primitive. Do you think that given enough time, the wheel would have not been invented everywhere independently? Sure, the same could be said about any technology. But if it wasn't for the west, asia wouldn't even have computers today. If asia was completely isolated on another world, how long might it have taken asia to develop that far....if ever? If it took them another 2,000 years to develop that, would that really make it of any significance? Because a 2,000 year head start on that kind of technology, would make for pretty tremendous differences. It'd be like an alien civilization vs people of the 1950's.
There is however, not much difference between a civilization with a wheel and a civilization without a wheel. As great as the wheel was, it is functionally insignificant on its own. The wheel is also easily copied....all you have to do is see one. If a cave man see's a skyscraper, he can't copy that. If a guy from the 1800's see's a micro processor, he can't copy that. Heck, even the technology that China uses to reverse engineer technology, is technology they have not invented. Much of their advancements came when the US moved manufacturing there, which was a huge mistake, because it gave them direct access to fabrication of technology that they wouldn't have otherwise been able to copy without access to those fabrication processes.
Yeah someone invented the wheel, someone invented algebra, but who utilized it best and built soo far beyond it that the underlying ancient principles behind it, no longer make up the bulk of the credit for modern invention? You can say nothing would exist without the wheel.....but the wheel also wouldn't be much without the benefit of all that came after it. The western world accomplished more in the last 200 years than the asian world accomplished in the last 2,000 years.
But I'm interested, what ideologies are holding us back? I hope you don't mean inclusion. Because that's certainly not what's holding us back, it's what's crushing us by allowing us to be usurped, siphoned from, and crippled. That doesn't mean that countries of the world can't benefit from working together, but when the citizens of countries are usurped within their own borders, that is primarily a one sided deal. If there's any point where the playing field became uneven, it's at least when Bill Clinton gave asia the favored trade partner status that robbed the US of advantages it developed by giving those advantages away. And the US has been suffering the consequences of that for the last 30 years. But the blame is not entirely on Bill Clinton. He was just doing exactly what the Chinese wanted him to do.