The Chinese are very spiritual. The Japanese are animists. The aboriginal clans have their dreamtime. Difference is only the two former seem to accommodate modernity. There is more to it than spirituality. Besides, a new born is not spiritual, rather the child black or white, awaits suvival skills from its familial environment.

If one reads Richard Leakey's, The Sixth Extinction", it becomes evident that Mankindkind has a disasterous impact on the environment, starting in Australia from 60,000 years ago, when there was a huge reduction in the number of animal species.