Westernization of traditional modes of life in developing countries

Westernization of traditional modes of life in developing countries (striving for greater incomes, unrestricted consumption, an urban may of life, etc.) leads to a crisis as traditional culture comes under the impact of haphazard modernization, and as modern culture is introduced and rapidly disseminated in an unprepared cultural-historical medium. The inability of a society as a system to freely and easily 'digest' a great a portion of modern modes of life, results in culture as a system being unable organically to infiltrate society – some elements become hypertrophically developed and others become minimized.