I think a big factor in the attitude differences between Western and Eastern societies comes from the chronological order of industrialization. The West were t

I think a big factor in the attitude differences between Western and Eastern societies comes from the chronological order of industrialization. The West were the fore runners of industrialization and seen first hand the bad (old guard job loss, environmental impact, deadly accidents). Of course the price paid by the bad paved the way for the positive (economic supremacy). The economic positive from technological progress is far more apparent from the outside (East) looking in. The (West) memory of the early years and negatives creeped into the culture. While the East mostly noticed the shiny shores of economic progress and relatively recently. None of this is to say that the East is not having their own moment of the perils technological industrialization. Perhaps the East's view of technology will become less idealised in the future.