Why are majority Caucasian countries doing so well in almost all positive aspects of society compared to the rest of the world(barring the oil empire when it comes to wealth)?
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Some of it is chance. The period when Europeans started colonizing other lands took place after the advent of gunpowder was driving rapid development of military technologies in Europe. This fact meant that European powers had a significant military advantage when they encountered people from the other lands even if those countries were already well-developed. In the case of the Americas, European diseases also devastated native populations and disrupted their societies, rendering them easy pickings for Europeans. At most times, China easily had the strength and unity to withstand colonization, but the time when European colonizers were first in sustained contact with China was coincidentally a period of instability in China due to internal problems within the Ming dynasty. In essence, the normally-strong Chinese were having a bad couple years, and this fact put them at enough of a disadvantage that they could not assert their interests at a time when they most needed to do exactly that. Incidentally, the humiliation China felt during this time is also the reason modern China is so determined to regain what it sees as its proper position at the center of world affairs.
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