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Why are the western nations/cultures so obsessed with ostentation and lookings?
There is a constant trying to show what do you have, your "value", making ostentation of anything and simply shaming or belittling other people just because they aren't on the same level. That goes from money, to art, to everything
While this of course happens (more and more by the day) in other cultures I see this far less happening in Eastern nations where in fact ostentation and calling everybody's attention is plainly discouraged, or at least publicly people are austere and keep their riches for themselves or inside home.
Is it a feature of the West or is it product of capitalism/consumerism? Or the latter only maximized the former?
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>>3269689
People like shiny things
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Bumo
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>>3269689
>Why are the western nations/cultures so obsessed with ostentation and lookings?
wrong, other cultures do it much more. Just think your average ghetto nigger with their gold or any rich chink.
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>>3270193
>average ghetto nigger
They live in western countries
>any rich chink.
As I've stated in the OP this is growing more by day in non western nations too
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>>3269689
liberalism is one hell of a drug
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>>3269689
Actually middle eastern and far eastern cultures have a longer and more important tradition of ostentation. The problem is that what you call Eastern nations have cultures were hierarchy is very important and must be respected, so not everyone is allowed the same degree of ostentation. Europe had strict hierarcies too but those were undermined by the glorified bandits who made feudalism first and later by the merchants that created a culture that wasn't friendly towards any hierarchy that isn't economic. So the west has less ostentation but everyone is doing it, while in the "east" there's more ostentation but traditionally it's reserved for a few (often the state).
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