Blessed are few, burdensome are many. Shy a tenth of humankind, far as that exists, is European; this stellar segment has put out eight to nine tenths of human achievement. Within this share still the talented are quite small, teeming throughout a few regions, carried by certain subsets of its nations.

Northwest Europe takes half the greatness; Britain, France, Germany, and Italy take almost three fourths. A list akin to The Five Biggest Ideas in Science shows four of the five have the British on top and all five needed not one non-European. That does not mean none could; it does mean there is no need to import or integrate what you can cultivate at home and should never replace.