🌍ap world history: modern review

Selective Westernization

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

The process by which Asian societies or ruling elites chose to adopt specific Western cultural and institutional elements while maintaining other traditional practices.

AP course connection

Topic 9.5: 9.5 Calls for Reform and Responses after 1900

Unit 9

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