[hasdha]

>Most Westerners could witness the change with their own eyes in 2019 when Saudi Arabia began issuing tourist visas for the first time.

The internet is a big place and most people lurking around aren't "westerners". Most people aren't arabs nor Westeners. We are also interested in Saudia Arabia and also find their extreme gender segregation shocking. I also see this when they talk about, say, democracy in China. "We Westeners have democracy so that's why we oppose China".

Am I being too sensitive? Maybe, but it makes me feel excluded and makes me think that a bit percentage of Westeners think it's them vs the topic at hand (whether it be Saudi Arabia, China, etc).

[avar]

The author isn't dismissing your existence as a non-westerner. They're describing how a foreign culture looks to someone who's a westerner.

[hasdha]

I'm not saying the author does that. My point is that too many articles do the West vs country at hand. You can, of course, write from the perspective of South Carolina vs Saudi Arabia and make all your comparisons that way, but I think authors could sometimes take a broader perspective, since the internet is, after all, international.

Maybe more importantly, I take issue with the identification of concepts we like (democracy, human rights, etc) with being Western.