近代以来,西方文化伴随着工业革命成为一种强势文化,这种强势文化也影响到东方国家。在中国近代,认为现代与传统、东方与西方二元对峙的观点曾十分流行,当时不少人认为中国走向现代化只能批判自己的文化,走西方之路。这种西方文化优越论掩盖了一个基本历史事实,即东方文化与西方文化曾长期互相影响,东方文化也曾是西方文化发展的重要动力;只是在19世纪西方国家取得了世界发展的主导权后,它们将西方文化标榜为人类最优秀的文化,不断向外传 Since the modern times, Western culture has become a strong culture along with the Industrial Revolution. This strong culture has also affected the Eastern countries. In modern China, the view that the modern and the traditional, the two sides were confronting the East and the West was very popular. At that time, quite a few people thought that China could only modernize itself criticize its own culture and take the road to the West. This Western theory of cultural superiority masks a basic historical fact that Eastern culture and Western culture have long influenced each other and Eastern culture has also been an important driving force behind the development of Western culture. Only after Western countries took the lead in world development in the 19th century , They will be the western culture as the best human culture, continue to spread