Air pig.
Quite correct. That part of the world has primarily been a herding lifestyle, watching the goats, sheep, camel procreate whilst sucking on the hubbly bubbly with the slaves doing any required manual labour.
Practically speaking the western world went from a subsidence survival culture to a work for luxury (keep up with the Jones) culture with the industrial revolution, over 4 or 5 generations. Where dad went from working hard just to feed the family to working hard for rewards. The Middle East culture has gone from a nomadic survival culture to “sheet look at all the money we have from our oil” without learning to toil. Hence no idea of how to put said nose (and they are beauties) to grindstone.