Yeah, it's not just a one way thing. "Western" culture and American in particular is mostly exporting at the moment. I just found it quite funny that a pro diversity comment was downvoted and so disagreed with (well, it was when I posted) here. The startup culture (that HN had a large part in defining) is extremely monolithic and really skewed to exporting ideas right now. Sure, it's happy to import arguments or small ideas from anywhere, but only if they don't disturb the core philosophy.

I feel a powerful need to poke at people, especially smart ones, when they seem to be knee jerk supporting the status quo. Just a good/bad habit of mine.