The foreign policy of every democratic cannot but take into account the characteristics of culture of neighbouring countries when reaching decisions in foreign affairs, especially during times of crisis and wars.
It is no secret that countries have always been involved in active cross-cultural exchange though family, political and economic ties. In this way, every state advanced own language, culture, religion and so on.
It's a well-known fact that INGOs played and continue playing one of the major roles in building IR. There have been created hundreds of INGOs in the course of two past centuries aimed at providing a better international communication.
Sooner or later, but it is nearly every state that has to make a choice between own self-identity and collective values. The thing is, nowadays the world is strictly divided into certain political and economic zones that profess own cultural worthies.
The issue of 'cultural appropriation', where cultural elements are taken from the context of their society and reused in a new context, often as part of an academic or commodified 'product' is a phenomenon that happens more often than not.

National Cultures vs Internationalism

In these later days every self-sustained country takes care of keeping own cultural heritage and that is absolutely normal thing, The problems start to arise when a state confronts with the necessity of being integrated into larger either regional or international communities. As the democracy develops, almost every modern political union or confederation (NATO or EU, for example) appear to totally non-intrusive decision-making structures that propose only a minimum of requirement when accepting a new member. Nonetheless, even this minimum turns out to be maximum sometimes. Remember the story of Turkey joining the EU for about 10 years already with no serious results!

Sooner or later, but it is nearly every state that has to make a choice between own self-identity and collective values. The thing is, nowadays the world is strictly divided into certain political and economic zones that profess own cultural worthies.

In Japan, for example, the word bunka became popular in the 1920s in contrast to 'civilisation and enlightenment'. Rather than simply following the path of Westernising and modernising, this was a claim of unique Japanese 'essence' which should not be ignored in national policy. In the broader history of Japanese foreign policy, there has been this tendency to veer between conceptions of Japan as fitting into a basically Western world order, and Japan as a unique civilisation able to make a particular contribution in the Asian world.

Therefore, it is up to every state to make own choice to the benefit of this or that position.

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