During the past seven centuries of Western modernity, the most extreme bodily modishness always was reversible.
Instead, it expresses a disillusionment with - even an outright distrust of - Western modernity in the Islamic world.
Its unspoken mission, in essence, is to stem the relentless flow of Western modernity.
Western modernity is learned from, studied, copied, denied.
Doro also poses these "seed villages" as alternatives to Western modernity, more specifically slavery and colonization.
A struggle began - it has never entirely ceased - to achieve a balance between Western modernity and Japanese tradition.
This would ultimately make the old mythological religion impossible, and it would seem that Western modernity was inherently hostile to faith.
His career provides some illuminating insights into the difficulties of bringing Western modernity to a non-Western society.
And in the face of Western modernity, with multiplying social and cultural disruptions, full-scale attacks have unfolded.
In my country, I have experienced the changes that have taken place under the influence of Western modernity.