Asian IQ and White IQ are apples and oranges. There are no chinese Davincis or Newtons. No chinese Elon Musk. They are hive creatures. Drones. Compliant. Easy to control and manipulate. The more the merrier to our betters.
“There are no chinese Davincis or Newtons.”
I would suggest you listen to “The History of China” podcast
https://thehistoryofchina.wordpress.com/&ved=2ahUKEwii1JXRkOOUAxVcUFUIHZYHHg4QFnoECA8QAQ&usg=AOvVaw2sQ08JtHBtyUK11MC0Gp75
This is an American in China who runs it and it has taught me a lot about Chinese history. I cross check what he says (I am by nature a sceptic), and I’ve not seen any false stories or errors.
Leonardo da Vinci is celebrated as the ultimate Renaissance polymath. China’s direct equivalent is Shen Kuo, a Song Dynasty scientist and statesman who invented the magnetic compass, did stuff in mathematics, astronomy, meteorology, cartography, optics, medicine, economics, diplomacy, and music.
Newton was unique yes, but Qin Jiushao was quite nearly an equivalent
The thing is that Western ideas are based on individualism, so the “great man” trope but Chinese tend to be more confucian society
the compass, gunpowder, papermaking, and printing
“There are no chinese Davincis or Newtons. No chinese Elon Musk.”
Everyone should ask themselves who accomplished the things below. I’m open to additions and corrections.
Air Conditioning
Airplane
Algebra ?
Anesthesia
Antibiotics
Automobile
Calculus
Calendar
Circumnavigation of the globe
Clock/timekeeping
Coal Power
Communications satellites
Computer/calculator
Declaration of Independence/Constitution
Diesel engine
Discovery of the Western Hemisphere
Electrical power distribution/Alternating Current
Fabric loom/Cotton gin
Fertilizer
Geometry ?
Great art
Great music
Gun powder (Chinese)
Identifying chemical elements
Insulin
Internal combustion gasoline engine
Internet
Latitude and Longitude system
Light bulb
Magna Carta
Microscope
Natural gas power
Nitroglycerine/dynamite
Nuclear power
Ocean voyages
Open heart surgery
Pacemaker
Penicillin
Polio vaccine
Printing press/moveable type
Pythagorean Theorem
Radio
Representative government
Rocket (Chinese-toy rockets. Rockets made useful by the West.)
Smallpox vaccine
Spaceship capsule
Steam engine/locomotive
Submarine
Telegraph
Telephone
Telescope
Television
Toilet
Tractor
Transistor/integrated circuit
Trial by jury
Trigonometry (First put to use in modern technology in the West.)
Turbine
Understanding nuclear power
Understanding orbital systems
Understanding of planetary movements
Wheel? (very old)