> A country choosing to adopt the ways of another is only evil if it is forced upon them by outsiders. it's also quite a bad idea if it is forced upon your nat

> A country choosing to adopt the ways of another is only evil if it is forced upon them by outsiders. it's also quite a bad idea if it is forced upon your nation by an autocrat who tries to 'modernize' or secularize his own population without really considering if that's what they want. Modernizers like Atatürk had nothing to do with genuine change, they were trying to impose copied values from countries they perceived to be superior onto their own populations. Same thing happened in India, or for a while in China. Today you can see pretty much every single one of these civilizations reasserting their own identity and ways of life, which are thousands of years old, not decades. Countries should change, but they should change according to their own unique values and history, not because foreign educated or inspired elites try to impose 'Western' ideals on them out of a sense of inferiority. That world is over and it's coming crashing down quick. Relevant reading: https://www.noemamag.com/the-attack-of-the-civilization-state/ https://www.noemamag.com/the-attack-of-the-civilization-stat...