One of the most interesting moments involving Westerners wishing to be misled about the dire straits of another nation/culture occurs in this thread: http://www

One of the most interesting moments involving Westerners wishing to be misled about the dire straits of another nation/culture occurs in this thread: http://www.quora.com/Does-the-average-Pakistani-support-the-Taliban http://www.quora.com/Does-the-average-Pakistani-support-the-... The answer I'd like for you to read is not the one with 4.7k upvotes. It's the one below it with just 62. The most popular answer implies, very nicely and agreeably, that all cultures are equal, and that any problems are the result of poor governance and or some faceless structure/entity. The one right below it states that, while it's true that environment plays a large role in oppression, fundamentally it is the people who perpetuate such an environment. It is very comfortable to rest at one extreme or the other (as the OP's article goes to show). I, for one, think it is better to follow what the man who wrote the 62-upvote post says, despite the mental discomfort it causes: "A lot of work has to be done to cleanse one's mind from years of propaganda and brain washing against the "Western World, Israel, and India". But it's not going to happen by pretending that everything is okay."