Places like Asia seems to have made so many progress in the past 40 years. The muslim world however seems to be plagued by wars, corruption , poverty , despite having having many resources. It doesn’t produce science/culture and does not look like it’s improving.
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The European countries colonised most of the world excluding China / Japan etc. which is why those countries are so much more capable of keeping up with the west. Countries that were colonised by Europeans who became the dominant race (USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand – they suppressed Native Americans, Aboriginals etc.) flourished because the people from those countries experiences a lot of freedom and therefore were able to focus on other interests. Other countries (mostly located in the middle east, Africa and South America) lived through years of oppression from the people who ruled them meaning that when they got free from colonial rule they were left with huge societal problems and trauma that caused distrust in institutions that hold power. Most of those countries are still dealing with those humanistic societal problems because the people don’t trust their governments (because their generational subconscious experience still remembers being oppressed by colonial governments) so they’re just too busy dealing with those problems to spend resources on things like science or culture.
However in reality there is actually a lot of classical art / crafts, and a lot of music and other types of local culture produced in a lot of those countries, it just doesn’t really reach a wide audience because its not well funded, and in order for something to become popular outside a country it needs to gain a large audience and make a lot of money within the local country first, which it can’t do if most of the people in those countries are more interested in survival than entertainment, which is the opposite of what happens the west.
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