"People born and raised in the modern West often overlook just how bizarre they are from a global and historical standpoint. The bizarreness of Westerns is something that stretches back centuries, however, the Europeans of 200 or 300 years ago where extremely cognizant of just how different their cultures were compared to the rest of the world. People of the modern West seem to take for granted the fact that they are outliers and that most of the world does not, in fact, share their value structures or conceptualizations.

The idea of 'having no respect for their own heritage' is a core symptom of this blindness. Post-modern thought and the demons it tends to breed - progressive intersectionalism, for example - are all rooted in oikophobia (the rejection of one's own culture), which in turn, is often rooted in the historically ignorant belief that other cultures (non-European, in this case) are equal to, or often greater than, European ones - in terms of both virtue and achievement. I'd go as far as saying that something like the concept of "white guilt" is a uniquely Western problem, given that the West has birthed some of the only guilt-based societies in history (as opposed to the shame or fear-based ones found everywhere else)."

This is an interesting perspective.

Do we not realise how bizarre we are?