A politics can be superficially Western yet not genuinely national.

Evidence

In this case one might say that Bronstein, apparently “Western”, was in fact a cosmopolitan—i.e. superficially national and superficially Western or European. Ilitch [Lenin] on the other hand was profoundly national and profoundly European. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 897

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes genuine national-European rootedness from superficial cosmopolitanism — a distinction usable for analyzing detached or transplanted theory.