/lit/ - Literature

>>9965114

No one here is gonna say it but what has the Asian world produced since Confucianism? Real works of brilliance musically and philosophically, that is.

Not very much. I think whites are good at creation and making something of their higher tendency towards individualism and introspection, Asians just seem kind of good at coding and maths.

I know I'm trotting out tired stereotypes from a 19th century understanding of sociology but hear me out because I can't explain the gap in Asian/white innovation for the life of me and the OP is right, I've been to Asian countries and there's a noticeable lack of... spice? Ambition to be great? It seems to me they would rather all be uniformly good than individually great, but now I'm just pontificating.