First: Australia is more eastern than anyone else - depending on perspective 🙂 second: i don’t know any country that caged their people more than the australians - i wouldn’t name that a good example.
Oh stupidity can be found everywhere 🙂 never forget - Switzerland had countrywide right for women to go to elections in the 1990ies - not before 🙂 I saw a documentary where they said basically - in times of crisis people tend to look for easy solutions.