highly educated people middle class and upper people can have more in common with the same type of people in other countries, consuming the same goods, media, and entertainment, than the citizens of their own country who are in different circumstances.

Sure, people can have tons in common, but attempting to argue that educated people in, say, India, Korea, and France all basically have the same political or social belief enters the realm of the ridiculous.

Yeah I always roll my eyes when people talk about "the West". Even the right wing political parties here would be considered center left in the US.