For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.
The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesn't affect them.
The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.
Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.
While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But as that power begins to ebb, then the morality of its actions will be the subject of growing scrutiny and challenge.
I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.
People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.
We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.
The right of property holds good in all society; but in the West, ethics invade the personal life in a manner unknown to the East, so much so that the Oriental stands agape at our folly, knowing well that every man brings different instincts and ideas into the world with him.
I am a Westerner of Westerners!
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