Many on /his/ make the claim that former poor countries become industrialized and developed because their races were "high IQ". However, only Western countries actually pulled themselves by their bootstraps. Everyone else "piggy-bagged" of their success"They got knowhow, machine tools, technology transfers. And America and Europe were very selective with whom their shared their technology. Japan got tech transfer in late 19th century from Britain because they wanted a power in Asia to Counter RussiaUSSR got tech transfer in 1930s from American Great Depression Fire Sale, and then after WW2, from captured German industry, Eventually momentum ran out, and there were no more tech transfers, and they got "era of stagnation"South Korea got tech transfer from USA and Japan, especially with steel industry.Taiwan got tech transfer from USA to make chipsChina, got 10x Marshall Plans worth of American investments in microelectronicsThe point is, much of Asia's economic development is a product of selective America's tech transfer, not IQ. Even the USSR, America's former rival, was built on American engineering knowhow. Normally America wouldn't have shared this, but America was in a tough spot and soviets paid them alot of money they earned from withholding grain from Ukraine and exporting it abroad.
>>17970541>However, only Western countries actually pulled themselves by their bootstrapsThey exchanged knowledge, poached workers, did IP theft, enticed academics to move over.>Everyone else "piggy-bagged" of their success"Might as well levy that statement at literally everyone.
>>17970541Good hypothesis. Any books or journal articles on this?
>>17970541>American Great Depression Fire Sale
>>17970541>Everyone else "piggy-bagged" of their success">They got knowhow, machine tools, technology transfers.Yeah retard, this is called convergence theory in economics. Low tech economies have an easier time catching up to more advanced because the tech already exists. Examples already include the Four Asian Tigers (Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea) and the devastated post-WW2 economies of Japan, France, Germany.
>>17970541Europe is not a cradle of civilization. Everyone followed "fake it till you make it" except Sumerians.>Everyone else "piggy-bagged" of their success"Germanics and Slavs has been piggybacking on Mediterranians' and Middle-Easterners' shoulders for millenias until it paid back.
>>17970541I would say the big misconception is that people think east asia was extremely backward. In some regards it was but its success was driven by its scholarly culture and solid institutions. You dont get the myriad year clock or town wide pneumatic oil lamp systems without having institutions that could create, design, and manufacture parts. Even korea had astronomical armillary spheres coupled to clock mechanisms in 1669 and china had them during the song dynasty (being the first to do so). Its probably the reason why they were never colonized to the extent other countries were. America was certainly a big help tech transfer wise but the rise of east asia was almost inevitable do to their culture and value systems and also their preexisting institutions.
>>17970718>for millenias greekjeets haven't been anything more than roman/turkish dancing boys for 2 millennia now
