Brain-wise, I think all nations have the possibility to have some top achievers at any given field. It comes easier when the population is larger. The human bei

Brain-wise, I think all nations have the possibility to have some top achievers at any given field. It comes easier when the population is larger. The human beings' organizations come with so many system differences such as ways to cooperate, education system. I recommend to think from a system's perspective. If copy is a way to catch up and serve as the basis for evolving one‘s own true strengths (well, true strength here makes the difference), it's definitely a good thing. If copy only brings almost brain-dead repetition, even others can not stop it, it will implode in the end. Sorry to reply with such an abstract content. There are just too many things in my mind to say. So I try to provide some general ideas instead of be very specific. BTW, I do not like taking culture as a dimension of answer, since it's too general and culture is the symptom of an organization. When we talk about culture, we just has to accept the symptom of one organization as is. Hence, it brings us not much information. But it is extremely difficult to have some nice insights for culture we don't have enough context with.