Race and Intelligence 3
Channel: Anekantavad
Date: 2012-04-26

The Japanese adapted far better to the arrival of the Europeans in the 19thC than the Chinese.

Why?

My answer? Their history. Their experiences. Their entire worldview, which was the ultimately the product of their environment. The Chinese, in 3,000 years of history, had simply never come up against a rival that seriously threatened their supremacy. The Japanese certainly had.

One of the most astounding periods in human history: The Meiji Restoration. The period in which the Japanese single-handedly demolished the myth of inherent European invincibility:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_Restoration