Indians obsess over getting wealthy, and Arabs flaunt their wealth. But they do not worship the West for being wealthy or technologically advanced. No. They think highly of themselves and believe they are superior to Westerners. They think about their glorious past. Middle Eastern people talk about the Islamic Golden Age, while Indians talk about their own glorious past.
Indians and Middle Easterners do not have an inferiority complex. You could say they have a superiority complex. That is why many Muslims in the Middle East would rather become terrorists than adopt Western customs.
You can call this hubris or delusion, but this is what allows them to keep their cultural practices intact. Indians and Middle Easterners have kept their traditional clothing alive and still wear it daily. Compare that to East Asia, which has almost completely adopted Western clothing and wears traditional clothing mostly as a gimmick for photoshoots.
Moreover, Middle Easterners or Indians have no problem dating Western women and using them, but when it comes to marriage, they marry their own because they consider Western women decadent and not wife material. They also do not allow their own daughters, sisters, or female relatives to date or marry Westerners. That is a major taboo. As a result, marriage to Westerners is very low in these cultures.
I think East Asia basically looks down on its own culture and its own people. They think becoming like the West will give them prestige. This is why they adopt Western customs so enthusiastically and also have no problem if the women in their families marry foreigners.
So instead of hubris and a superiority complex, they have an inferiority complex.
Indians and Middle Easterners love to flaunt their culture as the best in the world, but East Asians try to avoid it. Indians and Muslims, for example, rarely adopt English names just to fit in, but East Asians do it freely.
There are countless such examples that show the difference between the East Asian worldview and the Indian or Middle Eastern worldview.
