关键不同在于中国逃过了闪米特人宗教【译注：本来指基督教、犹太教和伊斯兰教。不过根据上下文，答主在这里应该是特指伊斯兰教】的破坏。东方的宗教【译注：印度教】和中东的宗教【译注：伊斯兰教】很难融合在一起。结果使得东方的宗教更像是闪米特人宗教，而不是相反。在态度方面，伊斯兰教和印度教原教旨主义几乎没有区别。

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【答案八】Shuo Yang, Coding peasant and civil economist
First China is not rich, but it is true that China is much richer than India.Why?

首先，中国并不富裕，但中国比印度富裕得多。为什么?

Because Indians are too proud of their culture and ethnicity. I saw many Indians' Quora profiles are with sentences like "Proud to be Indians". Indian people would like to say "In history, we Indians invented this, that,..." "India was the richest country in history..." etc.

因为印度人对他们的文化和种族感到骄傲。我看到许多印度人在Quora的个人简介上都有诸如“以印度为荣”的句子。印度人喜欢说“历史上，我们印度人发明了这个，那个……”“印度是历史上最富有的国家……”等。

China used to be arrogant in the 19th century and look down upon western civilization. But at that time, Japanese felt inferior to the western civilization. So they began to strip or change their traditions, religions, political institutions, education, blabla and quickly follow the west. This is why they become so successful. Then Chinese people begin to build a self-criticism culture, which lasts for more than 100 years.

在19世纪，中国曾经傲慢自大，看不起西方文明。但当时，日本人觉得自己不如西方文明。因此，他们开始改变他们的传统、宗教、正治制度、教育等等，迅速追随西方。这就是他们如此成功的原因。于是，中国人开始建立自我批评的文化，这种文化持续了100多年。

This is not going to say that western culture is superior for ever, but when you lag behind the west for a long time, there should be problems in your own culture at that very period. Islam world has been in downturn for a long time, and the biggest reason is that it resists western civilization. It doesn't, at least actively, face up to its own problem.

这并不是说西方文化永远都是优越的，不过当你落后了西方很久的时候，你自己的文化应该是有些很严重的问题。伊斯兰世界长期一直处于低迷状态，最大的原因是它抵制西方文明。它至少不积极地面对自己的问题。

So the first step towards development is to build a self-criticism culture.

因此，发展的第一步是建立自我批评的文化。

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