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It is an oversimplification, but it does probably have some merit to it
A lot of western culture, particularly in the US, is this weird, puritanical blend of ideas and things which seem, when analyzed, completely ludicrous. Nudity is considered taboo in most all media, but incredible violence? Perfectly fine.
I often think about the time I went to see the original Deadpool movie in theaters, and seated in front of my partner and I was a family with a pair of boys that could not have been over 12. If you're not familiar, the movie opens with an action sequence that features one man hitting a road sign at high speed and becoming a pancake, another getting decapitated, and many people being shot. But they only left when there was a strip club scene in the last half hour of the movie that did, very briefly, feature a woman with exposed breasts
Nitpicking here but they said 'culture particularly in the US' and since the us is the hegemon, for now, their point is cogent.
This is implicitly orientalist thinking. There is no simple cultural binary between east and west.
Modern Finland is politically and economically part of the west, this is true. The current president Stubb is basically a lab-synthesized neoliberal. But there still exist elements of a culture which I wouldn’t call eastern per se, but which originate from before the modern era and are contrary to the puritanical ways of the US.