Wtf?

Well, a lot of it has to do with a kind of national self-esteem. The "West" for better or worse, is pretty much heavily associated with liberalism and that's certainly the reality of the political groups which the West brings to them. You won't have the Organization of Better Understanding of Greek Classics with several million dollars there to get people to read Sophocles but you certainly will have pro-homosexuality/queer organizations there and three dozen feminist organizations. The modern West, ahem. In countries such as South Korea or Taiwan, its impossible to push back. For example, South Korea had a slight pushback against feminism and it is basically completely crushed - how dare you say anything against women? The local organizations, supplanted by foreign organizations,with billions of dollars will rapidly converge to smash you. Taiwan's a bit different - they're wandering off into oblivion and looking for something to grasp onto. In a way, cargo-culting the maladies of the West might get them more sympathy from the West and they desperately need that sympathy. In both cases, they don't seem to have much self-love anymore. Both seem incapable of really holding onto their own culture, whatever that is(this seems really cruel to S. Korea, but they always seemed to be subscribers of popular trends rather than native thought). Japan, from what I can tell, has managed to survive better - partly due to being consistently difficult to navigate in for the West and of course, having a great deal of cultural pride - certainly having their own media helps with the control of memes. Spandrell would know better than me, but they appear to have a combination of cliqueness, protectionism, and overall internal coordination that allows them to push back to some extent. In thought, they manage to isolate themselves from the West despite everything and it does seem like they have ways of undermining foreign NGOs or making them useless. There's an economic cost to this, though.