Hello guys I saw this question on Quora and I decided to bring it here to get your views. However, this is what one Mr Paul Delinga has to say about it.

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China’s biggest single asset is the 1.4B population of Chinese. Given the right tools and environment, they are smart and hard-working. Average IQ for China is 105, while for the US it is 97.

On its own, this is not significant, but there are 1.4B Chinese and 320M Americans. This is a big advantage in the aggregate, and explains why in any competition between the US and China, there is NO WAY that the US can win in the end.

This is not to say that Africans are not smart and not hard-working; they are smart and hard-working given the right conditions. However they underwent several centuries of brutal treatment and exploitation by the colonial powers, and when they became independent, they had difficult times under independence.

Now they are getting their act together. Rwanda is one example of a country which underwent a horrible incident less than 30 years ago, but is now making a great recovery.

The other issue is that for most African countries, they made their money on natural resource exports instead of educating their own people, which is VERY unlike China.

This means that if African countries are going to compete with China, they have to TAKE EDUCATION AS SERIOUSLY AS THE CHINESE DO. This requires not just a government shift, but a cultural shift.

Because no African nation has China’s population numbers, and the society does not have the cultural values, in particular the high value placed on education, learning and very INTENSE COMPETITION AMONG CHINESE WITH EACH OTHER (almost no non-Chinese know about this, but it is VERY REAL), no African country can surpass China.

So the right question to ask then is “How can we compete with China, but on a scale which is appropriate to our own smaller size and population?”

Another smart question is to ask: “What has the government of Rwanda been able to do, and how can we apply that to our own society to become more prosperous and grow?” Rwanda is an African country, so it is not as much of a stretch compared to China, which only has conditions China can meet, and not any single African country.

That is a MUCH smarter and more attainable target.

Have you ever witnessed someone's life fully change in one instant? What happened?

What do you think my fellow NLanders ?

Meanwhile the attached picture is that of Kigali the capital city of Rwanda

Please mod let it get to the promise land

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donbachi:
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I believe you my brother, the guy who gave that answer is probably a Chines man jogging from his picture

None... We are our own worst enemies and the obstacles in our wheel of progress. Ethnicity and religious sentiments will not allow us progress