Western civilization has nothing to do with race, geography, gender or language.
It has everything to do with values and ideas . In many ways Hong Kong is more Western than America, to the extent that it has better lived up to these principles by having fewer restrictions on trade, etc. The Founding Fathers saw the value of these fundamental ideas when they founded this country. These ideas are at the root of every great technological advance since, from the automobile to the pizza. Ayn Rand, in her novel Atlas Shrugged , demonstrated this point quite poignantly.