Why is China's modernization a process of westernization?

1. It is a wrong myth to equate modernization with westernization, which is untenable in theory and has great harm in practice. Modernization can not be simply understood as the process of modernity originating in the west spreading to the world, and many so-called modernity is just westernization.

2. The civilization foundation, national conditions and specific historical process of non-western countries are different from those of the West.

The road to modernization will also be fundamentally different from that of the West. The road of human modernization is a multi-path and multi-objective process of modernization based on * * * *. Modernization refers to science and technology and productivity, which belongs to the category of material civilization. Science, technology and productivity have no national boundaries, and they can communicate, learn and even compete with each other all over the world.

3. Westernization belongs to the ideological category.

A country and a nation have their own long history, which leads to different ideologies.

It is embodied in the fields of faith, culture, art, religion, etiquette and inheritance. These different characteristics are symbols of the country and the nation. If there is no such difference, then this country is actually a vassal state of the West. Therefore, it is problematic and wrong to say that modernization is westernization.

4. From the perspective of human practice, the western modernization represented by Britain and America is the first modernization, while the modernization of some countries, including China, is the later modernization.

Therefore, the discourse of modernization has been monopolized by the west for a long time, and even mistakenly thought that modernization is westernization. Now it seems that this kind of understanding is very one-sided, which not only narrows the understanding of modernization, but also misunderstands modernization. Especially with the vigorous promotion of modernization in China, we urgently need a correct understanding of modernization.