Its a culture war, but, it's a war about power.
When I was in Vietnam I learned 'you don't mess with a man's rice bowl.', and 'they don't care what corrupt leader, communist or capitalist, is in the palace, as long as they have a full rice bowl.'
Our culture (the future) is messing with their 'rice bowl', and there is nothing either side can do about it, and the toothpaste genie of knowledge is getting squeezed out of the tube and can't be put back in, by either side.
Messing with it how, other than to fill it?