Analyze and interpret the following quotation: The confrontationof Western civil

Analyze and interpret the following quotation: The confrontationof Western civilization with other peoples whose values were oftendramatically opposed to the Westssuggests that by the dawn of thetwentieth century the tradition and sense of centeredness that haddefined indigenous cultures for hundreds even thousands of yearswas either threatened or in the process of being destroyed.Worldwide non-Western cultures suddenly found that they weredefined as outposts of new colonial empires developed by Europeansresulting in the weakening of traditional cultural practicespolitical leadership and social systems that had been in place forcenturies. (Sayre 2013 pp. 410-411).