Reply To: Traditional clothing choices amongst religious Ashkenazy and Sephardic Jewry

Even frum sefardim in E”Y don’t live in a third world country. Culture may have been a bad choice of words- I was not thinking of music entertainment and sporting events. More like the economics, the technology, the world-class universities, medical centers, the form of government, infrastructure- these things are commonly found in western societies, but not, say, in sub-Saharan Africa or the majority of the Mid East. Frum people are affected by these factors, whether they fully participate in general society or not.