Why are Asian countries so much more developed than other ethnics countries?

[Bölþorn.Anabolic]

Literally feels like a different century coexisting at the same time period.

 

[Shrek2OnDvD]

East Asia was never massively developed for 95% of its history. Most of it looked like this:

East Asia has developed because they fund education for their citizens, infrastructure, industry, and using manufacturing to sell their products on the global market

Also culture plays a part in it