If this law can similarly be used in the realm of ethnicities, the greater modernization and more developed the economy, the greater the opportunity for all of the ethnicities to share their respective advantageous ethnic characteristics.
"While this often presents a great opportunity for modernization, it is important to retain the character of these buildings, whilst also retrofitting the latest technologies in a sympathetic manner," Ernie Shelton, an executive at Johnson Controls, a large energy-services company, wrote in an e-mail message.
The renewal process in Viet Nam has helped the country attain great achievements in modernization, industrialization and international integration".
By the 1950s states in East Asia, especially and increasingly China, made great strides in economic modernization and now compete successfully against the West.
The peasant serfs and the poorer urban workers had to bear the greatest hardships in wartime and moreover were intensively exploited in the course of Peter's great work for the modernization and development of Russia (see below Internal reforms).
King Władysław IV, a great supporter of the modernization of the Commonwealth army, proved to be a good tactician, and his innovations in the use of artillery and fortifications based on Western ideas greatly contributed to the eventual Polish-Lithuanian success.
At the same time, through political and administrative pressure and greater efficiency, secularization and modernization have increasingly pervaded the rural areas and small towns.
Meanwhile, traditional traders at the bazaar have resisted modernization and greater transparency, lest they be further exposed to taxes and government regulation.
As Professor Gill Hague from the University of Bristol, who contributed to the establishment of the GVSC said to me, the gender studies centers in Iraqi Kurdistan "are part of the ongoing movement towards modernization and greater awareness of women's issues in the region".
As developing countries continue rapid modernization, a greater understanding of how the health and well-being of their citizens are affected by these changes is required.
