All weird areas, all inward looking and stoner like, not anything like Western man.
People from different areas are, you know, just different. It's all due to the conditions they adapted to.
“Weird” is just another word for different. And Western man has only been “on top” for a few hundred years. And the only reason we are more materially successful are a few world-changing discoveries by a handful of people that gave us a head start. All modern innovation stemmed from those core inventions.
Asians are at least equally intelligent and hardworking. The timing of the discoveries was simply on our side. Had the Chinese created the steam engine first, they would likely be ruling the world right now. Steam led to vast amounts of coal. Coal led to manufacturing and military. The British started it and ruled most of the world for some time.