However, people within the community opined that 'Ali Ai Ligang' is slowly disappearing from their society due to impact of westernisation. |
But Tanpinar did not respond to this feckless programme of westernisation with a conservative or backward-looking project like Dostoyevsky's pan-Slavism. |
It has, however, over the past 20 years experienced strong growth encouraged by the westernisation of the life style and the increase in purchasing power. |
It will be a big culture shock, especially as the city of X'ian won't have the same ex-pat community or westernisation as Beijing or Hong Kong. |
I have long argued for the need to send a strong, positive signal to Turkey that will sustain the commitment to modernisation and westernisation that has been a feature of that country for 80 years or more. |
We believe that modernisation without westernisation is possible. |