Cultural Consequences of Rapid Technological Uplift

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Those were situations where the outsiders actually moved in and occupied the land. My guess is in this case the aliens find our environment inhospitable and find it most cost effective to crash develop us into adequate trading partners and/or military allies. Their logical approach would be to give one ruler the goodies, and let him unite and develop the planet.

Yes there would be significant cultural influence, so the more apt analogy might be Japan and China. But the more alien the critters are, the less likely we are to get anything but tech goodies from them in any meaningful way.

That would lead to near rehashes of many mythologies of the gods giving things like writing, art, music, etc. The aliens would be even more likely to be worshiped as gods.