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Nihonjin1051 Correct me if I am wrong.
Japan was a closed island and Japanese refused to allow other countries and traditions in their land until America forced them to open ports for trade. Then Japanese thought that they were weak and they started to first buy from America and then they copied from them until they started to build on their own.
Japan had one advantage, they had old strong feudal system and a strong emperor. Whatever their emperor ordered they did without questioning him. That is how Japan progressed. They had one central organized command which viewed itself as weak and wanted to become strong through learning. After decades of copying Americans and others and learning from them Japan became industrialized and strong, that is how they achieved their status as powerful nation before world war two. After the war Japanese already had capability to learn and create. They simply focused their learning capability towards technology and now Japan after seven decades has the capability to stand in the ranks of nations who have the abilities to do original research.
Now lets look at China. China was ruled by a weak emperor. It also had feudal system but their feudal system was divided, that made them weak. After the war communist system emerged which united the country. They were called "weak man of asia" before their independence. They wanted to be strong too just like Japan wanted to be strong, and with one party communism they found one voice which they lacked under a weak emperor. After many years under one central organized command China progressed by copying and learning and achieved knowledge which allowed them to be capable today. They copied and still to this day copy but they are at a point where after one or two decades will be where Japan is today, or may be sooner.
After looking at Japan and China lets now look at Pakistan. Pakistan is at a position where it has feudal system which manifests itself in the form of political parties and military. Each political party and military is trying to dominate Pakistan's politics and business. Unlike Japan Pakistan does not have a strong emperor and Pakistan does not have one central organized command. But Pakistan has one thing in common with Japan and China, Pakistan is weak and is struggling to gain strength. Now how will Pakistan achieve what Japan and China achieved is a difficult question to answer. But if we look at Japan and China of past, we can see that they both copied western cultures and education to progress. How much of that western culture they kept till today is not the real question. The real question is that they kept education they learned from west and improved it for their use.
In today's Japanese society western culture is evident. Japanese not only copy western culture quickly they change it too because that is what Japanese do, they learn and change things to their needs. Japanese have become so proficient in learning new things and changing them that they stay ahead of most nations.
Chinese on the other hand are cautious in nature. They learn, think and evaluate new things before they copy. What will Chinese do with respect to culture is difficult to predict.
The question is from where Pakistan will find its unity. Unity along with Faith and Discipline which Quaid-e-Azam M. A. Jinnah wanted us to have. We to this day have not united as one nation. And our priority should be education and unity but we are divided. We should have some policies on which we should be one. Obviously we should not have one person, one organization or one party ruling us because we all know the dangers of one man rule, one party rule and military rule. Japan and many other nation have seen the horrors of one entity's rule.
The answer to the question, should Pakistan copy one nation's culture or just its technology, can be answered by evaluating how Sir Syed Ahmed Khan cautioned Muslims not to fall behind in education. Sir Syed wanted Muslims to learn western education so they can progress in modern world. Although to learn western education we had to copy some of western culture, but the outcome of that education was that leaders like M. A. Jinnah and Allama M. Iqbal were born and they achieved Pakistan. And if we evaluate ourselves today, after one hundred and forty years of Sir Syed's Aligarh Movement, we can get the answer of the question, have we copied British culture or have we copied only their technology. Sadly we still need to do more in education to progress. While China and Japan were under one system, we were changing system again and again, and because of that we are still behind.