This may be close minded of me, but I fundamentally do not understand how.....

someone born in America or Europe cannot say unhesitatingly that western culture, both in practice and in theory, is superior to other cultures on earth.

Note, this is not at all a statement about PEOPLE. Someone can equally adore culture and immigration from other cultures who CHOOSE to join such culture.

But almost every single thing in my life that I value dearly, such as the rule of law, free enterprise, individualism, charity, scientific advancement, tolerance, etc either originated in or flourished most persistently in the area of the world that is considered the west.

It becomes even more frustrating to me when these same people who refuse to say they favor western culture over all others will not waste a second criticizing subgroups within western culture who they feel have inferior cultural ideas. They consider the jones family next door to be barbaric and regressive for opposing gay marriage or abortion because implicitly they know that opposition to these two things is somewhat antithetical to western ideals, yet they won't just come out and say they value the west over other terrestrial ways of being human.

They should process this quote by a famous warrior of western culture: