Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.
People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.
Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.
There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.
If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.
Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.
It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.
There's too much of a culture that exists out there, what I call an expectancy culture, of things being provided.
The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.
If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.