"Our way of life" in feeling pity for the homeless once a year . The concept of dignity does not exist. I would take it as a polite insult by the so-called fourth economy in the world, which cannot house its homeless.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51