How can we explain the disproportionate amount of mathematics and science contributions by white men? I can think of a two reasons for the discrepancy:
1. White men happened to occupy powerful and privileged positions which enabled academic pursuits.
2. My American education is biased in crediting the achievements of white men.
What does /sci think? No racist bullshit
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During the scientific revolution, Europe had colonized most of the known world leading them to be an unprecedented global superpower.
>But why did these countries got colonized
A mixture of things really. There could be some racist factor, but it would be naive to reduce everything to different intelligences.
>What does /sci think? No racist bullshit
Here's your (you). Now leave.
>A mixture of things really
aka theyre inferiour
The answer is pretty simple, prosperous and rich countries and people have free time to devote to all sorts of scientific/philosophical/mathematical advancement. Education is also a major factor because it is more likely that an educated person will aim for higher education than an uneducated one.
>no racism
all of these things play a roll, but to say that racial differences don't play a role is crazy talk.
Any individual can fall anywhere on the distribution, so prejudice is illogical.
All that being said, race itself does contribute.
What about mesoamerican communitues? India and east Asian countries?
So some Africans invented a steam engine but the evil education industry covered it all up? Do you honestly think that truly privileged people do things to attack their own privilege?
You need to understand three things that, right now, you are choosing to not comprehend out of pseudo-religious self-righteousness:
1) Invention is disruption.
2) Disruption is (or is near) the ultimate evil for most cultures. Chinese chose "harmony" even after encountering Europeans with objectively superior weapons. Nobody says that Chinese people are stupid.
3) Historical Europe never developed the sort of high centralization and totalitarianism that characterized almost all other governments. Freedom and science are mushrooms that nobody planted, but which accidentally grew in the shade provided by the lack of a village-exterminating Chinese-style nightmare state. Europeans probably got a head start on innovation, not from privilege, but from poverty, at the individual level because their disruptions would be tolerated or rewarded, and at the continental level because of the winter.
Henry Ford has been born a million times in China. Every time, he either looked around and kept his mouth shut, or was identified as a threat to "harmony" and eliminated.
The closest historical Europe came to Chinese centralization was Rome. Know what Rome did with plans for inventions that would dramatically save labor and so put slaves out of business?
the ancestors of white people got gud first
doesn't imply anything beyond that
there's no superiority or inferiority
And it's not like they did it completely without help
it was a different time