I'm growing up in the West and I can't find any impulse within me to be a man. It was never prioritized or taught in a tangible way. Im 25 and I still don't have the essence of a man like my father. There's that aura that older men have that younger guys don't. Its missing from me and I think that other cultures do it better. I have a friend from Kuwait who is only 2 years older than me and is strikingly masculine. He acts completely different from me and has a clear boundary of what is childish and what is not. I can't help but think there is no male role model in western culture.