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If you are using philosophy and religion and world view then I think the Middle East is actually quite Western. Remember that Judism, Christianity, and Islam are all part of the same tradition and in fact have relatively similar understandings on the nature of God and man's role on the planet when you compare them to Eastern philosophy. You will come up with very different maps if you make distinctions based on ancestry or economics.
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I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
Robert A Heinlein in "They Do It With Mirrors"
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