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7/15/2025, 8:55:48 AM
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Culture plain and simple. This is the reason East Asian cultures can achieve successes rivalling the west while the other third world shitholes stagnate in crime and corruption.
To those saying it is because the US funded and built them up, you are forgetting that Japan was able to build itself up to rival the European powers on its own through the Meiji restoration and even go as far as to defeat one of them in war only 40 years later - something no one expected at the time. It then went on to the point in WW2 that it poised a serious challenge to the US, a country with vastly greater manpower and resources, despite the Western powers conspired against it in the League of Nations in the lead up to that war.
Japan was able to achieve this because it had the requisite cultural characteristics to learn and command Western technology that became available to it when it opened it.
People like to say that Africa was prevented from developing because the West stole all it's resources. Japan had no resources so to speak of in the first place.
Culture plain and simple. This is the reason East Asian cultures can achieve successes rivalling the west while the other third world shitholes stagnate in crime and corruption.
To those saying it is because the US funded and built them up, you are forgetting that Japan was able to build itself up to rival the European powers on its own through the Meiji restoration and even go as far as to defeat one of them in war only 40 years later - something no one expected at the time. It then went on to the point in WW2 that it poised a serious challenge to the US, a country with vastly greater manpower and resources, despite the Western powers conspired against it in the League of Nations in the lead up to that war.
Japan was able to achieve this because it had the requisite cultural characteristics to learn and command Western technology that became available to it when it opened it.
People like to say that Africa was prevented from developing because the West stole all it's resources. Japan had no resources so to speak of in the first place.
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