In reality, China's quest for modernity destroys much of the old in favour of the ugly.
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The very modernity of its traditional retailing may be one reason, suggests Mr Favier.
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With a taste of modernity, they can seem much like the rest of us.
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One of the pleasures of switching from Ari to Harry was leaving modernity behind, Piven said.
Two non-religious parties (led by the Party of Authenticity and Modernity, or PAM), dominate the countryside.
Hungary's race away from modernity is fuelling an exodus by those it needs most.
This response to modernity and to Jews was not predetermined by Egyptian history or culture.
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Increasingly, supermarkets have become proxies for modernity itself, and not in a good way.
Some in Mr Berlusconi's Forza Italia, the right's biggest party, believe the referendums favour modernity.
All in all the path to modernity is not subject to any ambiguities or uncertainties.
Dipankar Gupta contends, justly, that India's fascination with western gadgetry and lifestyles has not brought modernity.
Fluency in the language of Shakespeare is regarded as a sign of modernity, sophistication and power.
In short, the sari has seamlessly transformed itself, trading the values of tradition for those of modernity.
American democracy was contrasted with papal demagoguery, American piety with papal superstition, American modernity with papal obsolescence.
So will the hate of modernity now gripping part of the Islamic world, most frightfully nuclear-equipped Pakistan.
"It smacks of modernity, " said Barbara Brock, a principal at New York-based staging company Sold with Style.
That's not an atmosphere that was - that is open to spread ideas of reform and modernity.
In countries where national authorities enjoy little trust, Europe has the appeal of rules, modernity and rigour.
Mr Byrne is an exemplar of the revolution that his generation has experienced as modernity conquered Ireland.
It would be tempting for foreign donor governments to push Afghans further towards modernity than they are ready to go.
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This is why I hope we'll always have the delicious antidote to modernity offered by Chez Georges and buttered radishes.
True modernity, Mr Gupta writes, entails adhering to universal norms, upholding individual rights, making the state accountable.
"We wanted to make sure we kept the visceral modernity and the raciness of the book, " she said.
But the infrastructure of modernity, according to the new view in vogue among Japanese intellectuals, was already there.
And both are open to wide interpretation, as they should be, to meet the changing demands of modernity.
What was once a sign of modernity and progress is now often seen as plain foolish and geeky.
Remarkably, Rabbi Ellenson has devoted his career as a historian to the study of Orthodox responses to modernity.
Nowadays, the struggle in Afghanistan leads back to Pakistan, and for a battle on behalf of Muslim modernity.
The Muslims had fallen behind in the race to modernity, and Pakistan was their consolation and their shelter.
In most of post-enlightenment Europe, religion was seen as an obstacle to modernity.
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