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Re:How did Europe become the richest part of the world? by rayiner on Sunday March 20, 2022 @12:14PM (#30743915)
You might be on to something with “stealing.” A remarkable thing about Western European culture, to me, is that it’s a fusion of a middle eastern religion with a Roman (mediterranean) civil society. The Bible, even the New Testament, is all about middle eastern people. What other culture subscribes to a religion which is centered on some other ethnic group, and their own is mentioned only peripherally?
Re:How did Europe become the richest part of the world? by eesmith on Sunday March 20, 2022 @03:50PM (#30745984)
> Buddhism is the dominant religion in Bhutan, Myanmar, Cambodia, Mainland China, Hong Kong,[5] Japan,[6] Tibet, Laos, Macau,[7] Mongolia, Singapore,[8] Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Kalmykia and Vietnam.[9] Large Buddhist populations live in North Korea, Nepal, India and South Korea. China is the country with the largest population of Buddhists, approximately 244 million or 18.2% of its total population. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_by_country

How many ethnic groups do you reckon that to be?

> Islam is the largest religion in Indonesia, with 86.7% of the Indonesian population identifying themselves as Muslim in a 2018 survey.[1][2] Indonesia is the most populous Muslim-majority country, with approximately 231 million adherents.[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Indonesia

> A majority of the Javanese people identify themselves as Sunni Muslims - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javanese_people

> Today, most Sundanese are Sunni Muslims. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundanese_people

> The majority of Madurese practice Sunni Islam. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madurese_people

How often is Indonesia mentioned in the Koran?

Re:How did Europe become the richest part of the world? by tptacek on Sunday March 20, 2022 @12:23PM (#30744008)
The ethnicity of biblical people is mentioned only peripherally in European Christian practice. Actual representation of the ethnicity of people in the Levant is a trivia question, an amusing aside in Western Christianity; Jesus is blonde.

I'm just saying, don't run too far down that line of thought.