This may sound a bit offensive(not meant) to you but my people are a warrior breed,your people are not so you wouldnt understand.
I mean, that's what Pakistanis thought, they too got comfortable with the idea that we can't fight/won't fight back. Then 1971 happened and they were ejected.
Cultural norms and mindset does shape history. It makes some ethnicities more outgoing and expeditionary like early Arabs, or later Turks. However, there are no inherently 'warrior breed' and non 'warrior breed.' With the change of mindset, the right investment in technology and human resources, any ethnicity can excel at fighting.
Yes, we suffered colonialism for a brief period of time, but also, we as nation have solid history going back at least 2000 years in our land. Not many people around the world has survived as
dominant natives in their own land for nearly 1500-2000 years while having their own successive states.
