Any non-traveler gets his primary description of a place he has not been to via words that come from people who have visited this place or the media. If these are considered to be the main sources backed up with almost bare facts, there is no doubt that when we say Western countries we imagine places with sky scrapers and an average man earning way more than the average of the developing nations.
At the same time, the image that Muslim countries portray are usually those of a weaker economy coupled with an uncertain danger to lives; an uncertainty that bars up way too high than usual. However, we all are well acquainted of the dark sides of both of these regions, the poverty and life threats to an average man of the west as well as the rare but bedazzling glitter of the wealth possessed by the few of the Muslim countries. Although these other sides exist; when a comparison is made we compare the average and when an average is taken, the western countries are way too ahead than the Muslim countries.
There are many theories explaining this state of difference and almost all of these theories are intricately connected to each other. However, the primary cause of this difference can be considered to be something way more different than the usual bullet points like politics, war or influence. The primary cause might be a reason that has thorough scientific holds.
The world today is moving towards a unifying trend, a trend where we are constantly separating our differences not by eliminating those that do not share similarities but by adapting the differences. Take for example, how an Indian concept of Yoga is so well incorporated in the western regime. We are taking parts of each culture that benefits us and adapt it into our daily lives. What this is leading to can be called as a Planetary system – a concept very well defined by renowned Physicist Michio Kaku.
Kaku explains how we are all moving towards a core planetary system where our culture, language and finance will be no more factors that distinguish us, but all these will be shared throughout the world. He further explains that the planetary language would most probably be English which should not come as a surprise, considering the fact that English is the most spoken language in the world way ahead than any other language present.
If this is true, then it is easy to find that those countries that lead this process would be ahead in all aspects than those who oppose it. Today, the world’s economy fluctuates when something bumps up in the western economy, the language of the west – English is considered as the international language, cultural occassions and festivals of the west are celebrated almost everywhere. Hence, when it comes to having a strong hold on the market the west already have it made with their hands spreading out in all directions.
On the other hand, Muslim countries are primarily reserved when it comes to inter-cultural communications. Even today, we have Muslim countries that oppose and stand against many aspects of fashion, lifestyle and trade that the world now follows. Some parts of these countries also are involved directly in terrorism, as Kaku puts it – Terrorism even though a fight against religious ideologies in the detailed aspects, but if taken a macro-perspective then it is a direct resistance to a planetary culture.
We can attribute the difference in financial status between the two regions to wars and terrorism but the primordial reasoning to all of this would be very simple and is, in fact, an explanation to all these activities and their consequences. There is always rebellion against any change, and so is the resistance against a vast and gradually accelerating change towards a planetary culture. Those who are with the change survive better, and any resistance will be slowly left alone without a support from others.
Thus, it should not welcome doubt when we see the western countries with their globalizing facts ahead than yet reserved Muslim countries.
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