Westernization is a process, whereby societies come under or adopt the Western culture in diffrent matters such as industry, technology, law, politics, economics, lifestyle, diet, language, philosophy and values. Westernization has been a pervasive and accelerating influence across the world in the last few decades. It is usually a two-sided process, in which some societies follow westernization and some usually confuse it with Modernisation.

Modernization includes the destruction of the existing culture, replacing it with a more efficient western culture. In Pakistan, modernization is often confused with westernization because the Mulla's think of empowering women, essential part of modernization, as westernization.

We should stop thinking of modernization as apart of westernization because this has stopped us from accelerating in the international arenas and has also diminished our goodwill amongst other societies.

On the right you can see an image of Japanese Prince Yorihito wearing a western outfit, this also shows that the most conservative societies have mistaken westernisation as modernization.