Are western countries really like that?

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See, i live in an Arab country in the middle east.. that's like the back door of the earth lol.. I've always dreamed of getting out of here and going to a better place... But from what I've seen through the years... Western countries have problems too... i will tell you what I've noticed... Celebrity worship.. Porn / sex obsession... social media obsession... too many racial backgrounds and groups... Drugs and alcohol.. everything is so materialistic and everyone is money hungry and could give up all their morals and everything to get it... Women are heavily objectfied in everything and sexual freedom made it even worse... Relationships doesn't mean anything and people of the same family don't have bonds let alone other relationships... The fact that you can die and nobody cares.. Long story short.. it just seems like people in western societies have been brainwashed into being robots... Am I correct? Can anyone confirm that I'm saying?

Astarlessnightsky · Accepted Answer

First of all there is a huge difference between one country and another country, North America is different from Europe, Germany is different from Spain, ... due to their own unique history.

But ill try and give you my opinion on these. I am from germany by the way.

Celebrity worship: you may see it this way, espacially some individuals and some groups of people, there is a huge interest in the life of people who are famous and those who think they are, and there are certain media who will statisfy this interest.

Porn / sex obsession: I don't think this is that bad as you think it is, there is porn and some are even addicted to it, but the majority isn't obsessed with it. Its just not a taboo, to talk about it openly.

social media obsession: Again some are addicted and some will spend hours every day with it, but its not an obsession. Its something that exists and everyone is allowed to use it however they see fit.

too many racial backgrounds and groups: There are some groups and sub cultures but these exist everywhere so its neither good or bad, and i guess the only difference is, you are allowed to openly show your affiliation to a group, eg i know that wearing a heavy metal band shirt and long hair is forbidden and punished with jail time in iran other arabian countries.

Drugs and alcohol:
Does exist and alcohol and tobacco are legal in every country in NA and Europe (as far as i know) as well as weed which is legalized more and more. But as far as i knwo its also consumed in the arabian countries, just not as openly.

everything is so materialistic and everyone is money hungry and could give up all their morals and everything to get it:
Yes, its true, but also exist in arabian countries, the super rich oil sheichs (not sure on the spelling) are no different from someone like bill gates or jeff bezos, they are as selfish with their money and buy themselves the 127th golden ferari than do something against slavery or womens rights.

Women are heavily objectfied in everything and sexual freedom made it even worse:
Does exist yes, but sexual freedom and empowerment wasn't a bad thing, it most likely helped against it, its hard to tell, as time changes and you can't compare the 1950s with 2010s directly.

Relationships doesn't mean anything and people of the same family don't have bonds let alone other relationships
Thats not true.

The fact that you can die and nobody cares
Also not true. Some people will always care.

OfDeath · Accepted Answer

Hmmmm... Sort of. The only things you're wrong about is that women are heavily objectified and that sexual freedom makes that worse. Women are objectified in some aspects but that objectification can actually be turned into their favour and we are taking real measures to change it. For example, they could be paid a lot of money to use their body to advertise something. Sexual freedom also gives the individual control over what they do and don't do and more importantly who they do and don't do. People have close relationships with their families and people care when someone dies. In fact, the funerals I've been to which weren't religious, have been much more personalised and were a celebration of the life of the real person who died rather than just ceremonial formality.
They call a place like USA "the land of opportunity" because the opportunity to realise your dreams exists. The people at the top who have achieved that are idolised because they are envied. You are likely to fail but the point is you can try to your heart's content and there aren't as many archaic restrictions on the social aspects of your private life as there is somewhere like the middle east which is dominated by backward theocracies. I'll take the west over a day care centre for adults run by fear of an imaginary being any day.

DaisyM23 · Accepted Answer

I mean... yeah 😂
We love our celebrities definitely, there’s not really a porn obsession but we are pretty open about sex (well not the right side), definitely a social media obsession, there are many racial groups and backgrounds and this diversity should be celebrated because it’s great and i love it, drugs and alcohol yep, materialism and capitalism is pretty much everywhere in the world, women are objectified yes but also men, relationships do mean something but they’ve just broadened and progressed past the typical nuclear family, people do care about death
But yeah it’s different to the middle east because countries in the middle east are ruled by religion, specifically islam, and there’s more religious rules and lifestyles i guess

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

You’re right. And yes women are heavily objectified. Anyone who says otherwise is ignorant or a man.

TheTower · Answer

Every country have it good and bad side. Its just how media portrayed it. We mostly view western country as much more civilised and advance country because of its movie, drama, comic books etc. People view western culture as proper guideline but the reality is every country, ethnic, race etc. have their own culture. If you realise that western culture are quite resisting other culture and likely to demonising other culture especially if it were related with other people religion or way of life. Western country are nothing more than other country either in South America, Africa or even Asia. The difference is that the economic gap (which also caused due to western destructive colonial plan) and how successful the western country playing their own role as the role model country. Funny thing is that middle eastern have higher acceptance of other races compare on how western view other ethnic. Thats just my observation. Thats all.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

You have some points on the larger scale.
But within specific (smaller) communities the picture may look different.
Depends much on which area you're in.
If you plan to re-locate: be aware that you WILL be seen as 'different' and you WILL have some culture-shocks.

Levin · Answer

You are of course, correct. We're extremely arrogant in our sense of superiority, not realising the scale of our problems.

However, as current events show, freedom is the most important thing. Freedom from tyranny.

Be it the government and the covid religion.
Or backwards religions and theocracies.

People ought to be allowed to choose to live their lives as they see fit. Without some centralised 'omniscient' higher power.

jshm2 · Answer

There are no "western countries" it's a myth that we're all together and the same.

Each country in the West has it's own culture and way of doing things. Except America - they have no culture, and no way of doing things. Just fucking up things less and getting others to do it - usually immigrants.

jamesgoldman · Answer

Yeah it's great isn't it  preparing for assimilation with the droids before they replace us

MysticDevice · Answer

I mean you're not entirely wrong. But as with all things its just not quite that simple.

We have our share of psychos and scumbags and we have our share of wholesome do-gooders. At least where I live people mostly keep to themselves still.

Snakeyes7 · Answer

You lost me at the the objectivication of women (because I think in order to see someone as an object you would have to be sociopathic) and beyond that (sort of true but in a sense that, while what you say is pretty common, being the opposite of that isn't frowned upon).

The_Maphio · Answer

If you want to move somewhere, pick one of the european countries that has not been polluted by today's political brain damage. The US is off the table as a direct consequence, unless you were planning on becoming stupider.

Anonymous · Answer

“Too many racial backgrounds” is a GOOD thing! It makes the west a better place than places with only one group.

OddBeMe · Answer

Yeah western countries have all that. What’s your point? It’s awesome. Get over here and start enjoying that shit.

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