Define primitive.

Why must we concern ourself with the trauma that seems to be springing up all over the world, why should we concern ourself with other peoples suffering, of societies in other corners of the world who have little in common with us other than the nebulous concept of being fellow human beings.
This term fellow "human beings" belongs to a philosophical suggestion that, because we are all born in the eyes of God that there is a fellowship of men and women which joins us, as if we were brothers and sisters. Of course if we were all raised in the same environment with the same parents we could be classed as brothers and sisters but even then there are major differences, even then there is a measure of hostility given the best of environments.
To see the old babushkas in the Ukraine in obvious distress struggling as they try to come to terms with the hostility unfolding in the Ukraine. Old women with a lifetime of care and hardship, people rich in symbolic strength and importance to the social structure, of course we recognise some commonality. But what of other societies, some vastly different from our own, do we owe them the same brotherhood, do we spill blood on their behalf or should we have a rethink on the uniformity of humankind. Has the world shrunk to such an extent, with the aeroplane, the internet, the minimising of boarder control, the advent of the global economy where we have had to accept the multicultural mix of our cities to be educated to learn and accept cultures that 50 years ago we would have disparaged as primitive.
But that word "primitive", a dismissive word a cruel word which denotes such a divergence, a hierarchy, a supremacy of people born to dictate their specific concept of what is right and what is wrong. They set the bench mark they write the rule book and therefore they get to describe who is primitive and who is not. Does our lax promiscuity, our binge drinking, our coarse manners, our disregard for family and the responsibility towards our parents when they get old and weak, does this give us the high ground when so many "primitive" societies seem to have some of these basics worked out.