I guess the first difference is love,i think that arabic people love each other and try to help each other even if there is not interest between them.

Here in the western countries,people are capitalist the first scope is monney.

Also,for family organisation,Arabic people have strong relationship with their parents.

For the western,they dont mind about this relationship .

In the other hand people here are more serious,have a lot of goals in their life,and arabic people are frustrated and they are not convinced that they can change things to better.

Of course, the differences between indiviuals mean way more than those between cultures; in both regions, you'll find extroverts and introverts. I guess what schneiderleo was feeling there was the difference in openness. It's not that Arabs love you more, it's that they are expected to show it more. In the Arab World, it's RUDE not to chat with service industry workers. Arabs always start business dealings with prolonged smalltalk, and it's not weird to joke with or even tease somebody you just met. In the Arab World, you can kiss, hug, and hold hands with your same-sex friends without turning any eyes. I am really proud of the close-knit community we Arabs like to create for one another. It's comparable to what Westerners say they like about the countryside. Of course, close-knit communities have their own set of problems. Arabs tend to be relatively overly senstive to criticism, and are less open to new people and ideas. People allow each other less space and freedom, and what's your business is everybody's. You are expected to design your life around what a bunch of strangers would think, even if what you are doing does not affect their lives in any way.

Again, I have met incredibly puritanical but gregarious Westerners and incredibly rebellious but aloof Arabs. It's more about you than your culture: you decide who you want to be.

I'm Egyptian and I live in Egypt.. I think we appreciate friendship and we give priority to friends.. We can't shrug about them when they are in need..
Also volunteer works like Resala charity organization and alot of associations..
We spend time to help others without gaining money.. If we saw poor people happy that make us happy..
Also our religion.. because we make alot of things because of this.. like Ramadan month.. we fast and give money to poor people and make them happy.. we visit patients and play with orphans.. we pray and read quraan.. in this month we do the best ..
we get together in Eid..
Really, If you attend our feast and adha day, you'll enjoy and you'll feel that's good and make you happy..
In neighborhood, we know together and if someone need something, we help each other..
if someone is patient, we help him to go to hospital and visit him..
if someone succeed, we visit him to congratulate him and give him present..

just LOVE :)

I lived in the United Arab Emirates for 4 years and I noticed a few differences between them and most western countries, including South Africa where I live now. People are much more conservative in Arab countries, and it's respectful to dress accordingly in arab countries, for example no short shorts or sleevless tops. I also learnt that in Arab countries, one doesn't show the sole of one's feet/shoes while sitting, as it is rude to others. 

I think to seperate an arab world and western world is not correct. We can seperate east culture and west culture without any relation of religion. Religion is a different discussion area. Yes, culture and tradition inspires from religion but I think culture can feed from different sources. In my view, western culture is more capitalist, more individualist, more beneficiary and more hedonist than eastern culture. You can compare Japanese and Danish, Chinese and German, Suadi and British, US and Taiwanese cultures e.t.c. That's why, if a person who raised in western culture went to east sees all the humanitian things, friendships, neigboorhoodness, helpfullness, generosity, respectfullness family values, etc. And if a person who raised in eastern culture went to west or US sees good organizations, good governance, regularity, loyaltiness of rules, etc. Therefore we can say, eastern culture must get loyaltiness of rules, regularity, good organizations from westerns culture; and western culture must get generosity, helpfullnes, loyalt of family values from eastern culture. Only we should pay attention to take good things from other cultures.