Herodianism holds that non-Western societies must abandon their cultures to modernize

Evidence

Kemalism. A second possible response to the West is Toynbee’s Herodianism, to embrace both modernization and Westernization. This response is based on the assumptions that modernization is desirable and necessary, that the indigenous culture is incompatible with modernization and must be abandoned or abolished, and that society must fully Westernize in order to successfully modernize. Modernization and Westernization reinforce each other and have to go together. This approach was epitomized in the arguments of some late nineteenth century Japanese and Chinese intellectuals that in order to modernize, their societies should abandon their historic languages and adopt English as their national language. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 197

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Kemalist/Herodian response to the West: abandon indigenous culture, embrace both modernization and Westernization.
• XREF: Connects to Toynbee’s Herodianism concept and to the later discussion of torn countries in chapter 6.