Technology has become the West’s main prop to its claims of inherent superiority over the non-West, and the reason why the non-West should adopt Western culture. If advanced technology is particular to Western culture, then it is only by Westernizing that the non-West can obtain it. This argument collapses if Western technology can be adopted in isolation from the broader culture, or if other cultures can generate significant technology independently.
Peter A. Lorge, The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb
asia, eurocentrism, europe, historiography, history, technology