This was not about free markets, globalized economies, industrialization, democratization or any other such euphemism for Westernization.
Editor of Giant Robot magazine and Asian American commentator Martin Wong, sees these westernization surgeries as far more insidious than just simple procedures.
There is a school of thought particularly popular in radical Muslim circles that contends Islam is fundamentally incompatible with democracy and Westernization.
For former president George W. Bush and his advisers, the root of Islamic extremism was authoritarianism and the solution was Westernization through open elections.
Yet when I travel in China, it is very apparent to me that a major part of globalization is westernization, or more specifically, Americanization.
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The uniforms are a vestige of Japan's crash course in Westernization 100 years ago -- the same phenomenon that introduced nationwide education for all.
But when Sun Yat-sen began the process of Westernization after the 1911 Republican Revolution, wooden buildings were constructed less often, and traditional skills were slowly abandoned.
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Despite the trappings of Westernization in major cities, a literacy rate of just 61 percent and high infant mortality rates betray the reality of India's status as an emerging nation.
Westernization seems to be everywhere in China.
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It is truly sad -- especially when she thumps her chest saying "I am a feminist" without relating or qualifying the relevance of feminism to Islam -- because she has opened herself to the pitfalls of elitism and Westernization in the jingoistic sense.
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