Why aren’t Asians as historically successful as Whites?

by FabulousAnswer

I’m speaking for the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans. They’ve been strong for a long time, but they couldn’t come close to inventing any of the modern important technologies that Western European White people are known for. Also they didn’t manage to colonize as many places. Why is this? Was the culture holding them back?

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