Throughout history most peoples have distinguished between themselves and outsiders. Many Indian tribes have names that roughly translate as “the People”. Ethnocentrism has ever been the norm. Christianity has been very much an exception to this in its theology. West bashers attribute the sins of humanity to the West in a reprise of the Noble Savage trope used against the West since the Age of Exploration dawned by dissatisfied Western intellectuals. One of the first to do this was Saint Thomas More in his Utopia, but he did so with gentleness and justice, something sadly lacking in his emulators.
Or, why I have no respect for star gazers.
Neil deGrasse Tyson? Culturally appropriate much? Maybe he should be thankful Europeans had the run they did. Then again, maybe he’s never been to a hospital or attended a university.
The dog’s dinner Tyson made of the tale of Giordano Bruno at the beginning of his “Cosmos” series shows he is completely ignorant of history. St. Thomas was writing satire, on the theme of nature and grace, and his Noble Savages were intended to suggest that those who dutifully followed Nature as their only teacher could be better than those who had access to God’s grace, but never used it.