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Which other developed countries do you mean? The only ones I can think of, have westernised on purpose. E.g. Singapore and Japan.
by pipes 6mo ago
Which other developed countries do you mean? The only ones I can think of, have westernised on purpose. E.g. Singapore and Japan.
- zozbot234 6mo agoWhat you call "westernised" is just describing the adoption of bourgeois and open market norms. There's nothing about these norms that's inherent to what we call the West: classical Western culture (Greece and Rome, but the attitude persisted well into the middle ages and ultimately fed into multiple streams of modern-era thought) similar to other ancient societies, actively despised market participants, broadly equating them with swindlers.
- pipes 6mo agoThat is sort of my point, I can't think of a developed country that hasn't westernised to some extent.