Interesting perspective even if doesn't necessarily reflect my own beliefs around culture. The West is definitely an outlier in many aspects, but I also think many aspects attributed to Western culture is simply down to material changes.

I have on many occasions met people from various third world culture remarking on how different our culture is and making remarks about what they do in their culture in contrast. Very often I notice that what they deem unique about their culture is the exact same things that applied in Norway with my grandparents or earlier generations.

While you can certainly find many Norwegian cultural traits in the 1800s that is identical to present day Norway, there are also many modern traits which are the outcome of industrialization and modernization.

And while the West shares many common values, there are also huge variations within the West. I remember being puzzled when meeting a Japanese student in the US. We talked about things that we found strange about American culture. To my surprise I found a lot of commonality between my perspective as a Norwegian and his perspective as a Japanese.

I remember making friends with Lebanese and realizing we had much in common in terms black humor. On the perspective of our view on politics and government we were totally different. In this regard I remember he found much more common ground with a Russian.

I think there are a lot of these complex overlapping and divergent cultural traits all over the world. While it makes a lot of sense to speak of a Western mindset, I don't think it is anywhere ass homogenous as one might often think.

I recall a funny youtube video from a Japanese moving to Finland to study. She had this idea of all Westerners being really outgoing and talkative like Americans. She was shocked to learn that Finnish culture in that respect was much more like her own: More shy and not very talkative. Actually Japanese are probably more chatty than Finns.