We shall confine ourselves here to a few of the more prominent and vital traits. We have already mentioned our essentially false pretensions about spirituality. Spiritual propensities may be lofty and impractical philosophical attributes. So let us come down to earth, and dwell on a few failings which keep pulling us down into quagmires of retrogression. Then, the feudal Dynasty fixation.
Comparisons are odious, but yardsticks have their value.
The word Nepotism is at grave risk of becoming obsolete in the West. Butithas has become routine parlance in Asia. Not to mention the perennially ascendant esons', brothers, sisters, wives, nephews, in-laws et. Contrast this with the hullaboo which would result on the slightest whisper of kin placement upbooting in any modern Western state. Social and political norms would doom any such upstart progenitors to a very quick professional grave in the West.