What do Westerners think of the four great Chinese inventions that have made countless Chinese proud?

Westerners, unlike Koreans, are pragmatists -- it doesn't matter who invented it, as long as it works for me, and it works better.

According to historical records, gunpowder existed in the Tang Dynasty, but it was hundreds of years before the West, but there has been little development, only the distribution ratio. But the West is different, it will be the whole of the refinement, purification of raw materials, scientific proportioning and improve the process of technology, more and more advanced , built a more powerful, longer range guns.

As for the compass and printing, the West, although recognized as a Chinese invention, but his compass needle as well as printing is obviously more influential than China's to come! The Chinese compass is basically a guide, however, the Western compass began to point to the north, so it is called the north pointing compass. The earliest European compasses had only sixteen directions, fewer than the twenty-four in China at the same time. This suggests that China and the West should have invented the compass independently. The compasses in use today all point to the north, obviously developed from the West. In the case of printing, there are only 26 letters in the English language, so printing with movable type was a breeze. Our movable type printing was invented, but it doesn't work well. Copper movable type doesn't eat ink, clay movable type loves to break down, it's expensive to back up a large amount of copper movable type, it's slow to retype, and it doesn't have illustrations, and the Ming and Qing dynasties used a lot of engraved characters.

Modern Chinese are also the same, for example, we are now using the QR code initially invented by people in other countries, but China to promote it, who else knows its inventor? The important thing is not who invented it, but who can innovate and reform something even better based on it. So we don't need to dwell on how westerners see this issue, the point is how we can now learn others' advanced technology and reform and innovate it for our own use. I hope my answer is useful to you.