The great irony of the sophistry that being in favor of classical architecture is somehow a codeword for being a "white supremacist" is that Modernism has destroyed even MORE of non-western culture than almost anything else.

There is tradition to love everywhere.
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Look a the crass commercialism that has swallowed up Dubai and ignored the beautiful local architecture of Al Bastakiya, the historic center of Dubai.

Instead they've built a massive glass heatsink and auto sewer unrecognizable as anything Middle Eastern.
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The great holy city of Mecca, has been transformed into a center of commercialism and moneymaking. Cultural monuments all over the city, precious monuments to the life of Mohammed are wiped out for globalist architecture, bland and soulless, blotting out the sacred city.

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Traditional architecture in Japan, which has an intricate details, deep cultural memory and exquisite craft tradition, is instead rejected in favor of bland corporate architecture. Nothing of the architecture today communicates anything of that deep wonderful culture.
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In India, the great traditions of Indian architecture such as Mughal-Gothic by the Pakistani architect Ganga Ram were ignored in the building of Chandigarh by Corbusier. Instead mono-cultural "international style" which eliminated Pakistani culture in favor of concrete bulk.

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When all you got is a hammer, every problem is a nail.

For the modernists, they've been hitting every architectural nail with the glass and steel hammer for decades, all to the same effect.

Time to break up the hegemony of Modernism.
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