How did global dominance over scientific discoveries and practices shift during the twentieth century?

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Answers will vary but correct responses should include: In the first half of the twentieth century, the intellectual hegemony of science reflected the global dominance of the West. All major new scientific initiatives came from Europe and America. The rest of the world could only endure this supremacy or attempt to imitate it. In the 1960s the pattern shifted. Non-Western countries, especially in east and south Asia, imitated Western technologies so well that they built up enough wealth to invest in their own scientific institutions. Western scientists began to turn to non-Western, and especially to Asian, traditions to help interpret some of the conflicting data their observations accumulated.