When human beings start to use their rational wisdoms, know hows, and power to explain mysteries and forces greater than powers beyond their reason, there they begin to make big mistakes. Our world is rich in tradition.
However, too much tradition retards amazing progress. Traditions are akin to human, though some traditions are subject to change.
When you are in a foreign land, identify more with the lowest members of the society. By so doing you will understand better the structural hierarchy of the society. There is more to life than trivial pursuits. Often-times we wonder why things are the way they are. The poor gets poorer, while the rich gets richer. As the masses miss the clues to riches, they wallow in penury. How long, Oh God will it be before they will understand!? "Why do I suffer?" is a question many people do always ask. It seems that majority of those who query themselves with regard to their plights do not even know the solutions to their sources of worries.
People suffer due to ignorance. Some people have been misled for long thinking it to be wrong, even "sinful" to aspire for honorable riches. They have internalized the erroneous doctrine that material acquisition is "canal" and "spiritually unnecessary." Deep in their hearts many of such deceived individuals are very good people with success potentials. They suffer. They ask "Why do good men suffer?" Yet they are timid to question errors in religions. Indeed "good men" suffer due to the age old problem identifiable as nothing but ignorance with regard to success.