Non-Western societies now shape Western history rather than merely receiving it.

Evidence

Far from being simply the objects of Western-made history, non-Western societies were increasingly becoming the movers and shapers of their own history and of Western history. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 146

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The reversal of agency collapses a deeply sedimented assumption in Western historiography that the Rest reacts while the West acts. Dense enough to sit with.