I'm not seeing how the point that you're making is in anyway related to my original post. I'm talking about life and blood Korean, Chinese, and Japanese migrants(and other middlemen races), and their history of bootstrapping to academic/economic success and how that success is linked to their Cultural values. You are talking about the economy of countries, specifically, how much of their growth is due to the west, which is a different topic all together.
Back on the topic of culture; If you do some research on countries in Southeast Asia, where Chinese immigrants typically entered poor, you will find that they were able to bootstrap themselves and prosper, creating whole industries in the process. In the case of Indonesian, 1995, the Chinese controlled 70 percent of the country’s private domestic capital and have run three-quarters of its 200 largest businesses, and there economic dominance still continues
today. They came into that country dirt poor, and you see this same pattern in Thailand, Jamaica, America, and etc.
You could also see the similar patterns with the Japanese in peru/brazil in the late 1800s/early 1900s. More specifically, in america on the eve of World War II, 75 percent of Seattle's Japanese residents were involved in small business, and Japanese farmers were responsible for the production of the majority of vegetables in Los Angeles County. They were prospering so much that whites had to put laws on the book to prevent them from
eating. The children of these farmer generations of Japanese rose into science and engineering fields.
Tbh, blacks pre-1960s, especially the blacks who lived in the northern states before southern slaves migrated north( generations of free black men who lived in the north even during slavery) had cultural values very similar to these groups, and showed similar success.