Why not take the road of "total westernization" to correctly handle the relationship between traditional culture and modernization?

[Key] (1) The meaning of traditional culture and modernization and their relationship. First, traditional culture, relative to all ethnic groups, refers to the national culture handed down from history; Relative to foreign culture, it refers to the mother culture or local culture; Compared with modern culture, it refers to the culture circulating in history. Second, modernization refers to the fundamental changes in society and people in the present era compared with the Middle Ages. Third, the relationship between traditional culture and modernization actually involves the relationship between tradition and modernity, nationality and times, which are both contradictory and unified. Because modernization is the general movement of social development, on the one hand, it must rely on the cultural background of a specific society, on the other hand, it itself contains the modernization content of traditional culture.

(2) Combined with practice, it shows that we should not take the road of "total westernization" and correctly handle the relationship between traditional culture and modernization. The main explanations are as follows: First, any country has embarked on the road of modernization on the basis of the development of its own national culture, and the development of each national culture has a process of "discarding the useless and absorbing the new" to the traditional culture, and modernization can only be realized on the basis of renewing its own cultural traditions; Second, it has been proved that no country in the world has achieved modernization by completely rejecting and abandoning its traditional culture. Third, the view of "total westernization" is actually a metaphysical view of "western-centered theory"; Fourthly, in the process of modernization, China must adopt a correct stand, viewpoint and method to correctly handle the relationship between traditional culture and modernization. We should base ourselves on the great practice of socialist modernization in China, adhere to the guidance of Marxism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and Theory of Three Represents, and persist in reform and opening up.