Westernization/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Globalization [r]: The interaction of peoples, cultures, and businesses worldwide, which tend to overcome traditional national and cultural boundaries ^[e]
• Modernization [r]: Add brief definition or description
• International relations [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

• Rejectionism (globalization) [r]: A society's accepting neither Westernization nor modernization, such as Japan in the Edo Period before the Meiji restoration, or the Taliban today ^[e]
• Kemalism (globalization) [r]: A society's embracing both Westernizationand modernization in the context of local culture, as with Mustapha Kemal or Peter the Great ^[e]
• Reformism (globalization) [r]: A society not becoming part of a global civilization, but adapting the desirable parts, such as the Ching Dynasty motto of "Chinese learning for the fundamental principles, Western learning for practical use;" regards modernization as desirable but Westernization as not ^[e]

Other related topics

• Social conservatism [r]: A political ideology that holds to a belief in following cultural tradition and traditional, often religious morality. ^[e]
• Meiji Restoration [r]: Beginning in 1868, the major change in Japanese governance coming from the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate not only restoration of the monarchy as the real Head of State, but also the modernization of the form of government from feudal to technical-bureaucratic, the end of the samurai class and the development of a national military ^[e]
• Mustapha Kemal [r]: Add brief definition or description