The U.S.A. is 227 years young, compared to Asia's nearly 7,000 years (Thai people's current 2,560 Buddhist years) of "human growth & social development" influence. The interesting part is that the Buddha himself (Siddhartha Guatama) was a black-skinned, Tamil Indian from Nepal. So, go figure that factor, as a contradictory phenomenon, of a people's cultural maturity level