"I’d like people to reconsider the view that western societies are somehow inherently purer or less corrupt. "
That's fine, we can be open to that perspective, but we should also try to be objective and accept that there are rough objective measures of 'corruption', upon some places are going to do better than others, and that arguments based on cultural relativism are usually not very strong.
Transparency international has at least one take on it [1]
That's fine, we can be open to that perspective, but we should also try to be objective and accept that there are rough objective measures of 'corruption', upon some places are going to do better than others, and that arguments based on cultural relativism are usually not very strong.
Transparency international has at least one take on it [1]
[1] https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2018/results