text: Moreso "honor-based societies" than "impoverished." It's a more natural state of how people are.
  
  In the West, the Church and civil society sublimated ours via Christianity and the Chivalric system. Strength was redefined from physical dominance to service and protection. Other civilizations used other methods.
  
  The decline in authority of those traditional societal controls allows traditional honor systems to reassert themselves.
  
  I'm badly summarizing "Honor: A History" by James Bowman. It's worth a read. Particularly in understanding the larger clash of cultures we are seeing today internationally.