Remember that when people talk about the superiority of western civilization.
Remember that when people talk about the superiority of western civilization.
30 years later he was in the basement of a slaughterhouse when his countrymen firebombed him and the rest of the city into slag, after all.
And I distinctly recall a rather large and conspicuously non-Western nation being involved in that particular war. Possibly more than that, depending on how you count.
I think you are crediting too much to the west.
It is also a contention that has pretty racist adherents; Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment book comes to mind. This isn't a coincidence, as suggesting that non-western peoples have contribute nothing of value to this "we" is pure western chauvinism, which is racism's non-identical twin brother.