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...apparently when a “white guy” dares writing in general about his heritage and culture he is typically accused of ethnocentrism, xenophobia, political in-correctness and even racism It's not that I object to in your article: it's that you were writing inaccurately about your heritage and culture....

you have shopwne nothing of the sort to me, i see you grapsing desperatly at isolated facts to somehow make your own generalization about Western culture being no different or in fact inferior to others. The comment wasn't denigrating the West, or saying it was no different, it appeared to me that ...

Yes, you are probably right, Stewart. But you know, it's often by contrasting ourselves that we better define ourselves. Sometimes you just have to say, "this is what I'm not" so that you can then say what you are. And sometimes you also have to say, "hey, I'm different, I'm special ...