So, it's not wisdom, it's business! Meanwhile, the precious messages that mankind has accumulated in other places for thousands of years may be depreciated or may not be heard. And if are heard, those will only be credible if were discovered and published by the West. Let's declare: the world lives in protectionist racism. Meanwhile, a five-hundred-year-old culture that cannot go into depth transforms public perception to superficial.

In order that ye may not despair over matters that pass you by, nor exult over favours bestowed upon you. For Allah loveth not any vainglorious boaster,- (Quran 57:23)

In the external world, what people may consider misfortune or good fortune may both turn out to be illusory. The righteous man does not grumble if someone else has possessions, nor exult if he has them. He does not covet and he does not boast. If he has any advantages, he shares them with other people, as he considers them not due to his own merits, but as gifts of Allah.

Such persons as are covetous and commend covetousness to men. And if any turn back (from Allah's Way), verily Allah is Free of all Needs, Worthy of all Praise. (Quran 57:24)

Neither the Covetous nor the Boasters have any place in the Good Pleasure of Allah. The Covetous are particularly insidious, as their avarice and niggardliness not only keep back the gifts of Allah from men, but their pernicious example dries up the streams of Charity in others. It is Charity in Allah's Way that is specially in view here. If people are selfish and withhold their hand, they only injure themselves.

These are the negatives so far. But there is a good side to this. The good thing is that the rise of the West does not let the other deep cultures to be in atrophy and fade away. Collisions between the two can produce a variety of results. It is a fact, that in many places where Western spirit that entered as "modernism" into the East has caused cracks in the walls of traditions. There are places where the loss of tradition has caused a crisis. For example, the Muslim world has lost its millennial caliphate, a form of state that has harmonized the laws with faith and ages. Western democracies are still incomprehensible to a crowd of one and a half billion. This was as large mistake as the abolition of the Roma voivodeship system in Hungary, which was a strength of order for Gypsies. Today's "modern" or "made" voivodes do not replace the old system what was based on reverence and was the key to our co-existence. It was a crime to force the jurisdiction which Hungary is following directly into the people who had been socialized in another environment. After all, every legal order fit or is going to be fitted day by day according to the culture and economic condition of a given society. If majority of Gypsy people still feel their own culture closer to themselves than other cultures and their economic situation is miserable, "modern" law here is surely inconceivable and will only increase the distance between others and them. The situation is similar with the Muslim masses. However, there is globalization, we are linked to each other. Either we confront or we invent something clever. The smart thing would be if finally, we sit down to get to know each other. Because, step by step we know more about Mars and the Galaxies than we know about each other.

Allow me to illustrate the situation with the example of man and woman.

In the West, the proximity of a man and a woman is perfectly normal. For generations, they work in the same workplace, they are not separated in the clubs, and women and men are mixed in the image of the streets. Clothing, fashion and gender acceptance, written and unwritten rules, fit into this environment what socially formed.

In the East situation is different. In this case East means not only Islamic countries, but also India and the rest. The wise east, let's admit it, slowed down. Most of this is due to himself, because its matured laws, rules, its understanding of the world and its attitude were "once" very modern, but this "once" happened to be in the Middle Ages. The East did not progress in the same rate with the accelerating West, where rich societies (due to robbing the world) began to grow. The result can be witnessed today. The robbed East, not only because of it was looted, but also because of its old wise laziness and satisfaction, did not push itself forward to a new solution, and fixed itself at a point in time where its conception was the most modern and advanced. With other words, they fled back in time. In an Eastern society, the conquest of Western fashion confronts with this lineage of time. Not for three-four generations men and women have been not working in the same workplace, but since only one generation they work and travel together on buses and vehicles. Are we amazed that so many women are raped in India? And this is not happening primarily due to the non-appropriate dresses or challenging behavior. Even a nun would be raped. They are simply not got used to be such close to each other from the distance of one generation. At this point it is superfluous to argue about the hijab, the miniskirt. With this example I wanted to illustrate that consciousness changes much more slowly than the changes what can be caused by an explosion in the economic environment on the surface of the society. In addition, consciousness is often diverted by human hormones when a normal cohabitation routine is upset. In this case, besides tightening the laws, developing consciousness would be much more important. But if movies, entertainment products for sale even put fuel on the fire and make the violence fashion, then why wonder?

At the same time, the West could open its eyes and utilize the millennial wisdoms that would saturate its empty perceptions. In addition, it should have a mirror to look into. Because West makes criticisms on hijab, but in America, for example, they follow very strong conventions what clothing is acceptable for a businesswoman in office, at parties and in private life. And the "gender" approach is even more sophisticated. So, do not introduce other cultures as bazar monkeys if we are all prisoners of conventions.

Well, this was just an example where a Western-Eastern male-female relationship makes us comprehend our diversities. It's a tiny fragment of all the misunderstandings that surround us. We have already joined to each other and live in one village. If we don't transform our consciousness in all sides, it will be a big problem.