Delberto Umbiortole wrote:
> the ability to recognize and assimulate the best from around the world
> is admirable attribute that leads to world dominance.
> 
> china became inferior because it refused to adopt positive outside
> influences.
> 

I would need more space than what is on my screen presently to write the 
technologies and sciences that originated in Europe, and were 
assimilated by peoples of Asia and the middle east.