Japanese and the Indians

Admiral Pareii (hope the spelling is right) was the first American to visit Japan in the year 1867. His armada, consist of steamers was coughing smoke which then the Japanese though the smoke was exhale from the dragons.

However, within thirty years, the Japanese built their own steam ships. They built armada of equal strength to the west. In the year 1903 they fought a war with Russia, which is known as battle of Trushima. The battle was fought in the sea of Trushima. Japanese won the war because, their canons had longer firing power. Japan was credited as the first Asian country to win a war against a European country.

To add to the Japanese success, Wright brothers found the first airplane at the beginning of the century but by the second world war, they made zero fighters which crossed pacific ocean and attacked Pearl Harbour. They also made aircraft carrier and several other engineering goods to match the west.

We Indians, did not learn the engineering skills of the west but rather their religion and language. Both did not elevate any way our standard of living but rather we become the slaves of the west. Indians aped their way of living.

While Japanese are super rich, we are still talking of poverty and still exist problems with education and unable to compete with others in almost anything good. What is wrong with us?

I believe we are not emphasizing on self respect. If we expect some body to respect us we have to be better in something someway. We must have skills to add value to anything, which can only be done, if we are entrepreneurs. As long as our community works for others we will be making others rich. We can only become rich if we make others to work for us.