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Originally Posted by spawn142001
soon countries will become easternized instead of westernized and this process should in theory continue for many milliniums to come.
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Don't believe that.
Maybe 'westernized' is a misleading expression. When Europeans started sailing around the world they got in contact with other nations and European culture started to change, becoming more emphasized on science and reasoning because they couldn't rely on a cultural picture of the world anymore. This process started delayed in far-east, too, and is still going on. In todays China they don't rely on classical books any more to make political decisions, but on social science.
Maybe 'globalization' would be a better term for what is going on right now.