Some are more advanced. Some developed differently from others. We need to be careful not to make the assumptions they are all equal. They are not. Civilization requires civility. Not all cultures are or were. Why this truth offends is hard for me to grasp. We need to have a model to help a culture transform thru telling ourselves the truth.
We know about Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Luther, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Issac Newton, Constantine, Augustine of Hippo, Copernicus, Cicero, Michelangelo, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, and many others. They have left a mark on the culture that lasts.
The question that no one will dare ask is where are the names, art, books, discoveries and institutions established in pre European USA among the native Americans? What about much of Africa. Aboriginal peoples all over the world. There is a mythology that inflates the cultural sophistication of these people and a pretending to make them equal when no equivalency exists. Consider the culture of the Muslim. There is virtually no advance since the 1500s.
If we are going to make cultural changes, we need a direction, an end point, a goal. What will a superior culture really look like? We can't make the changes without knowing change is needed.
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