I suppose we all have different experience. In mine PF is far to be fantastic. Most all players I was friend with since ARR are gone, for a part because of the miserable behavior of some random PUG in PF (and the feeling to lose their time, happening the IRL matters end to take too much time to lead them to find motivation to wait it fills and run for nothing).
The only rare who are still here are only because they have time and have a few irl friends who play the game. But not everyone have IRL friends who play MMOs.
And for sure, to be part of western culture doesn't mean we have the same state of mind. As European, I do can say we don't have the same temperament. Cultures are pretty strongly related to the language, we have more than twenty languages in Europe and all subtile but real differences in mentality, related to the "language logic of thinking and meaning".