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We need no achievements. You threw away that particular mantle yourself and we have just laid claim to it, no different to how once you throw something away as trash other people are free to take it for themselves. Plus the person who founds a company/idea etc. is not necessarily the same as the person who makes it a success, see Steve Jobs, Elon Musk etc., they didn't discover any of the ideas they made their success on the back of, but they were the ones who propelled the ideas into greatness, and that is something we do far better than the Chinese, see how you have tons of Chinese at lower levels of pristigious firms, but the more you go towards the top the fewer of them and the more of us you find.
It's impossible to win with you, first when we say we'll keep our own culture thank you very much you people get angry and say we should assimilate with the west, replacing our Chandragupta Maurya with Lucius Junius Brutus, our Rumi with Chaucer and our Vishnu Sharma with Aesop.
Then when we accept it and become more westernised than even you are you turn around and then start complaining about us appropriating your culture and values and taking it for ourselves, even though that's exactly what you were saying you wanted us to do in the first place! What is it exactly that we should be doing? Should we be becoming more Western or less?
China is a superpower, I think they know how to do implementation better than India. There's not a single Indian company on the level of the big players in China or Taiwan, producing new creations. That's why you're not listing them. I looked around, apparently Indians have founded or cofounded companies worth $430 billion in the US. Huang founded Nvidia with two whites, it's worth 1.2 trillion. And then there's TSMC, possibly the most relevant company in the world, founded, staffed and run by Chinese.
https://www.globalindiantimes.com/globalindiantimes/indians-usa-founders-companies
Where is the Indian Steve Jobs, Bill Gates or Elon Musk? The richest Indian built and runs a petroleum refining conglomerate which is good but not a grand civilizational achievement.
When did we say that? Did the British aggressively try to Anglicize India? With about 1000 bureaucrats in the Indian Civil Service? They built some railways, suppressed sati, manipulated trade and that's about it. India was ruled overwhelmingly by Indian officials and nobles.
You are absolutely not more Western than me, as I have shown above. You don't understand Western culture beyond knowing an impressive number of names, you think there's no continuity from the foundation of our culture to the present day. You can't dismiss 80-90% of our history and say you're more Western than a native.
If you're going to have so much pride, you should back it up with great achievements, tangible proof of how your nation upholds the mantle of Western civilization.
I don't really have a dog in this fight, but Steve Jobs was ethnically half Syrian. Half white too, and I suppose you can do more complicated calculus if you want to argue how 'white' the Caucasian population of Syria is.
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