[ZaDomSpremni]

ALL major advances that benefit mankind have come from the West.

What a bunch of phooey. It was the Arabs who invented modern medicine, the numbers on your keyboard, and higher mathematics, and this was all before the US even existed, in Europe you were still in the dark ages.

[Virginia-American]

. It was the Arabs who invented modern medicine, the numbers on your keyboard, and higher mathematics

I don't know about medicine, but the numerals sere invented by the Hindus, then adopted by the Arabs, and finally introduced into the west by Leonardo of Pisa, aka Fibonacci, around 1200.