Modern is, in fact, a growth within western civilization. Western society continues to experience the tension caused by the presence of a (more-or-less) developed modernity within the western civilization context, which contains elements inherently resistant to the process of modernization. The case in Third World countries generally is rather different and, in may ways, more complex. The Third World countries generally encounter modernity as a highly developed complex of the social phenomena, the social and cultural sources of which are largely extraneous to the Third World societies. The conflict that arises within the cultural conflict attendant upon a growth of modernity within the western civilization milieu.