The Curse of Modernization
This story, from Hong Hong, tells an all-too-common tale that could be from anywhere:

Decaying Morality In an Affluent Society
As Hong Kong modernizes, traditional duties like caring for the elderly fall by the wayside

The author uses the term "Westernization" alongside "modernization." I tend to think of the West as the first victim of Modernization, not as its champion. Modernism, which is a deviation from the Western Tradition, has reigned for more than two centuries and has sadly become synonymous with the West.

It has even come to be seen as "conservative" to promote the "values" and economic platforms of Modernism. Russell Kirk:

"Capitalism gave the world what it needed," Ludwig von Mises writes in his Human Action, "a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people." But it turned the world inside out. Personal loyalties gave way to financial relationships. The wealthy man ceased to be magistrate and patron; he ceased to be neighbor to the poor; he became mass-man, very often, with no purpose in life but aggrandizement. He ceased to be conservative because he did not understand conservative norms, which cannot be instilled by mere logic - a man must be steeped in them. The poor man ceased to feel that he had a decent place in the community; he became a social atom, starved for most emotions except envy and ennui, severed from true family-life and reduced to mere household-life, his old landmarks buried, his old faiths dissipated. Industrialism was a harder knock to conservatism than the books of the French egalitarians. To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America, an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the conservative interest, that conservatism is simply a political argument in defense of large accumulations of private property, that expansion, centralization, and accumulation are the tenets of conservatives. From this confusion, from the popular belief that Hamilton was the founder of American conservatism, the forces of tradition in the United States never have fully escaped."

[quoted from pages 228-9 of The Conservative Mind ]