>In cultures based on conformity and ignorance, status is more important than actual achievement.

In the way that Dr. Dre is in higher regard by the majority compared to Miles Davis and Miley Cyrus compared to Grace Hopper?

If bringing happiness to millions through entertainment doesn't count as actual achievement, sure.

Well, you can give happiness to millions by selling shitty over-advertised stuff, that's shodily made, and bad for them.

If "hapiness" was a criterium, drug dealers and pimps would be up their in the "achievement" scale.

It's a non sequitar, in any case. Someone is butthurt because there are actual differences between east and west that aren't pretty.

I'm not saying the west doesn't have it's share, just that:

A) they are different shames and B) there's no magical rule which makes all cultures equally util. Some places/people are inevitably worse than others.

No.

In the way that villagers aspire to be people who wear fancy suits and order people about for a living.

Villagers? You mean like people from Iowa or Idaho, wanting to make it big in the big city?