The whole point of western truth-before-face is to teach you to tolerate being offended, so that you cannot easily hold false self-image, status, competency, meritocracy, so that those that possess competency meritocracy can accumulate responsibility so that those who don’t possess competency need not – for the betterment of all.
The reason the west ‘evolve faster than the rest’, in the Bronze, Iron, Steel, and Technological ages, has nothing to do with democracy or religion, it’s entirely due to the Unique Western Practice of “Truth Before Face Regardless of Cost to the status, competency, and dominance hierarchy.”
All other civilizations failed to progress beyond 800ad, and stagnated – exhausting the opportunities of agrarianism.
