People in the West generally are kind, caring, honest, generous and helpful. At the same time people are lonely, isolated, dissatisfied confused and suffering from different emotional problems. Many people who practice dharma have their own problems. One problem is not being able to integrate dharma practice into their everyday life. Generally people in the West are intellectual.
Many people have university degrees so they know a lot.
But most people in the West think too much and spend too much time talking about dharma instead of practicing. Most people think too much about past and future and do not realize we have to be in the present moment. Some people misunderstand meditation and Buddhist teaching. People sometimes think that meditation is escaping from daily activities of life. However, dharma practice is not escaping from life.