another example of western radicalism and eastern conservatism is how nationalism or racism plays out. in the west when nationalism or racism takes hold they end up creating these incredibly radical theories which usually boils down to how their race is the greatest race and all other races are inferior, meaning that they can do whatever they want with the so called inferior races. they also will come up with very unusual scientific theories to justify these views. this is in contrast with the east where many countries are very nationalistic and even racist, but they do not adopt very unusual theories like what the west does when it becomes nationalists or racist. they simply like their people the most but they do not focus on all the other people in the world who are not a part of their race. examples of this western radicalism are things like lebensraum, manifest destiny, and moral arguments that defended chattel slavery and imperialism.  therefore, as much as many right wing people would like the west to become normal, normal for the west is a culture of constant questioning of traditional values, a critique of the normal way of life, a culture of radicalism.
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