ssc suggested this like a year ago I think and then I found it unconvincing because of how wrapped up it was in his defense of globalism
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idea being the typical view of for instance "hollywood and mcdonalds haram" type muslim traditionalism standing against "western culture"...
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...is wrong and rather the west is just as much a victim of a world culture that simply rolls up whatever is most virulent from any locale
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I say this listening to an obviously nujabes-influenced indonesian hiphop artist's beat tape with a cigarette-smoking anime girl album cover
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turns out everybody likes having enough food and not dying of preventable diseases
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though I think "modernity" is a better word than "westernization"
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Raman definitely contributed to modernity but it would be weird to say he contributed to westernization
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