An interesting twist in the evolving hivemind. Westerners generations ago assumed the rest of the world were savage. Today's westerners assume that they are the savages, and that the rest of the world is enlightened, free from self-interest, kumbaya all the way. Lest we learn about the wider world, I guess.
It's pretty common. I know people from many Western countries who say "this sort of bullshit only happens in my country, I'm so ashamed" when they are in fact talking about near-universal human problems.
Then again, all my friends are Westerners, so it could be that they do this sort of thing in the East too.
So they think the grass is greener elsewhere? That sounds like a pretty normal (irrational, but understandable for humans) belief to have after removing a we're-the-only-civiized-ones belief.
