Consuming Western goods does not Westernize non-Westerners

Evidence

Only naive arrogance can lead Westerners to assume that non-Westerners will become “Westernized” by acquiring Western goods. What, indeed, does it tell the world about the West when Westerners identify their civilization with fizzy liquids, faded pants, and fatty foods? — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 158

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ article’s theme of how cultural markers signal identity rather than substance. — connects to: Having consumer goods does not disprove that rioters were poor — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1590
• SEED: Angle: a piece on how consumer globalism masks deep civilizational divergence rather than convergence.