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I'm really intrigued by the suggestion that the whole premise of the article is wrong
i don't know in this particular case, but I do know that Americans often assume that people in developing countries know far less about the developed worlds culture than they actually do, especially people in countries like China that are actually fairly developed, and it is true that a lot of the cultural conflicts that we think of as being between modernity and backwardness are taking place more intensely and matter more to the people involved when they occur WITHIN societies than when they occur between them.