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T Samner, I've read some of your threads, which (correct me if I'm wrong) seem to state that caucasians are of naturally higher intellect or development than other races, such as asians, blacks, etc.
If that's the case, how do you explain something like the Japanese, who highlyl excel in science, technology, and manufacturing? How can they, on their little isolated island, do things such as build the best cars in the world, bring the American car manufacturers to their knees, etc.
If you look at their culture, educational level, achievements (becoming a world superpower on a little island with almost no natural resources), etc. don't you agree they are very advanced, probably more than America on most levels? How can that be?
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The Japanese have created some good products but
they are also aware that they have contributed rather little to math, science and engineering. There are only a handful of Asian Nobel Prize winners in science and I don’t think that there is even one that did his work in an Asian country and with no White colleagues. The Japanese leapt forward by adopting Western science and technology and they also engaged in wholesale copying.
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Modern Japan
Samurai of the Satsuma clan, during the Boshin War period, circa 1867. Photograph by Felice Beato.On March 31, 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry and the "Black Ships" of the United States Navy forced the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa. The Boshin War of 1867-1868 led to the resignation of the shogunate, and the Meiji Restoration established a government centered around the emperor. One of the main figures that helped bring change was Fukuzawa Yukichi who wrote the article "Leaving Asia", encouraging Japanese people to be open to change and modernize through Westernization.
Japan adopted numerous Western institutions, including a modern government, legal system and military. Japan introduced a parliamentary system modeled after the British parliament, with Itō Hirobumi as first Prime Minister in 1882.
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I also do not believe that the Japanese build the best cars in the world. Nobody has yet to equal BMW’s 3-series and the reviews I’ve read on the new Lexus LS are pretty tepid. A few examples:
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/FullTests/articleId=117189
http://www.latimes.com/classified/automotive/highway1/la-hy-neil30aug30,0,5726164,full.story
http://fifthgear.five.tv/jsp/5gmain.jsp?lnk=201&make=Lexus&mk=&model=1092&x=11&y=6
Also, as far as I can tell companies like Bosch, Siemens and Continental Teves are the only suppliers of ABS, ESC, piezo injection technology etc. to the auto manufacturers and if those German companies stopped supplying the Japanese manufacturers with that technology, their cars would be back in the automotive stone age. And don’t forget that at the pinnacle of international motorsport, Formula One, the top three teams again this year were all European.