I'm not so sure about that. There are many reasons for the slow shift from a sharing, communal, and sometimes even traditional cultures towards individualism and what the philosopher Hans-Georg Moeller calls "profilicity" - some major ones being CAPITALISM (especially neoliberal capitalism).
I've lived in several cultures (in the east and south AND the north and west), and it seems to me that socio-economic conditions and the systems running many nations seem to have a huge impact on this move towards INDIVIDUALISM.
>>"Asia, Latin America, Africa, even Europe, all set the family, community and living in harmony"
That is a FALSE narrative. If you study the history of all the above continents, you will see more evidence than you bargained for to the contrary.
First and foremost - human nature is intrinsically (at its core) the same for all humans. Above and beyond that, much can be said about sociological conditioning, socio-economic conditions, indoctrination, revisionist history, believed narratives and belief systems, etc. that feed into such narratives.
>>"It's the Anglo-White affliction."
I'm not so sure about that. There are many reasons for the slow shift from a sharing, communal, and sometimes even traditional cultures towards individualism and what the philosopher Hans-Georg Moeller calls "profilicity" - some major ones being CAPITALISM (especially neoliberal capitalism).
I've lived in several cultures (in the east and south AND the north and west), and it seems to me that socio-economic conditions and the systems running many nations seem to have a huge impact on this move towards INDIVIDUALISM.
>>"Asia, Latin America, Africa, even Europe, all set the family, community and living in harmony"
That is a FALSE narrative. If you study the history of all the above continents, you will see more evidence than you bargained for to the contrary.
First and foremost - human nature is intrinsically (at its core) the same for all humans. Above and beyond that, much can be said about sociological conditioning, socio-economic conditions, indoctrination, revisionist history, believed narratives and belief systems, etc. that feed into such narratives.