This I agree.

However:
How about:

C) We are so inferior therefore we should work hard to improve ourselves.

Wouldn't that thinking be better? Imagine if a person, say a typical, uneducated Mat Rempit finally decided to be humble and start learning from educated people. If he keeps thinking that he is never inferior in intelligence, how can he ever hope to improve himself?

Same thing goes for an ENTIRE RACE.

Deadlocks,

The QUESTION here is do the person BELIEVES that their inferiority is

A) Cultural

Aka, something that they can learn and overcome.

B) Genetic

Aka, they are borned with this and they could NEVER COMPETE successfully with people with SUPERIOR GENE.

Now, there are people DO NOT BELIEVE in meritocracy to begin with.  You are either born into RULING ELITE or MARRIED into RULING ELITE family or you are DOOM for life.

Dreamer

Its the same factor, size and endurance, some of them dominated certain sports events but not Asian. In Heidi Earth quake, many of them can survive even more than week.

hazairi,

The QUESTION is

Is the MIND more important or the BODY??

Culture DRIVE the MOTIVATION aka the MIND.

Gene is ONLY the body.

If a person is NOT MOTIVATED to improve and utilizes their TALENT, superior body does not help.

On the other hand, even a person with INFERIOR BODY can improve and become something with MOTIVATION.

MIND over MATTER.

Dreamer

Exactly. Like what i was trying to say, apart from cultural influence, genes are also a big factor for a superiority of the species..

hazairi,

Looking at Chinese in Malaysia, how many miracles have you find??  Plenty...

No, it has nothing to do with gene.

Dreamer