Dependent elites believed they had to westernize or perish.
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- Declining ex-imperial societies scapegoat minorities to explain their problems (similarity 0.82)
- Totalitarianism adopted tribalism for its isolating value even against its own doctrines (similarity 0.82)
- Schooling matters for hegemony because intellectuals depend on it economically (similarity 0.82)
- Capitalism depends on a noncapitalist world whose possession is imperialism’s core project (similarity 0.82)
- A remarkably uniform anti-Saracen ideology persisted through centuries like a catechism (similarity 0.82)
- Colonial rescue narratives portray the non-Western world as needing the West. (similarity 0.82)
- Interrogating Western-ness is required to expunge Islamophobia (similarity 0.82)
- Colonial rulers sincerely believed their own religious and self-interested ideology (similarity 0.82)
- European plutocrats tried to reconcile anachronistic demographics with ultra-modern production. (similarity 0.81)
- Dependent countries had to westernize even when resisting the West (similarity 0.81)
- Culture as shared meaning-making became democratized rather than elite civilization. (similarity 0.81)
- Consolidated Western civil society blocks the Russian-style seizure of state power. (similarity 0.81)
- Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after (similarity 0.81)
- Essentialist identity politics can be a necessary defense where no alternative exists. (similarity 0.81)
- The concept of ideology was born torn between historical relativism and universal truth. (similarity 0.81)