Jim think of it this way. If the 1965 Green Bay Packers .were to plat the 2014 Seattle Seahawks, they would lose badly. If your culture is incompatible with modernity, it withers into a violent backwater incapable of real progress or sustainablity
Nice analogy.
If the 2014 Seahawks, believing the Packers were a joke of a team, certain to be beaten with minimal effort, and they then spent the week before the game drinking, smoking dope, watching scantily-clad girls engaging in simulated sex acts, and the coach then picked the starting lineup based on ethnic background and sexual preference, would the Packers still lose?