I've read that a lot of contemporary China's problems stem from the Four Olds campaign, in which much of China's beautiful heritage was effectively destroyed. The loss of so much has caused a lot of psychological harm that still affects China to the peasant. The disconnect is so bad, that many mainland museums are characterized as cheap knock offs.
TTL, do places like France, Poland, the former Germany, the Netherlands, and Russia suffer from the loss of so much of their cultural heritage? Like OTL China, have they become places that can only think in terms of materialism, with an incredibly feeble attempt at recreating a loss past.