AHC: Have an Eastern Ideology dominate a Western Nation

Not going to happen. The White Australia Policy was widely popular in Australia during the early 20th Century. In fact, during this time, there were pieces of literature that stoked public fears of an invasion by an Asian country, particularly Japan. Advocating for the end of the WAP this early would be akin to political suicide.

To take it further. Really bluntly. Why would anyone in the first half of last century want to be inspired by Asians? Asia in general had had a rough run since 1800. China doesn't call it the "century of humiliation" nothing.

The most sensible entry point for Eastern Ideologies I can think of would be UK ties with India in the 1700s. At least there was some respect going on at the time. Eg a member of royalty goes on a tour and brings back a bunch of ideas making them fashionable.

By the 1900s you are mostly looking at outcasts interested in eastern exoticism.
 
Turkey is not a western country
Turkey is in Europe (across the bosphorous) and in the recent past controlled territory bordering Austria. So, just because they are Turks they are not Western? Is Greece and "eastern" country? As for the OP, simply a different WW1 may result in Turkey occupying Greece. If Turkey goes fundo after this time, the conditions of the OP have been met.
 
The Jesuits succeed in converting the Chinese court through some super-human feats of talking, and are themselves converted into Confucians in the process. Over time, Catholicised Confucianism is carried back into Europe and becomes the dominant political ideology of the Catholic world.
 
Yes, never seen Turkey to be considered a western country always Islamic or in a few cases counted as "torn between the two".
This sounds to me arbitrary. Turkey is in NATO, was a member of the European Economic Community, is a secular state presently. They're jsut as western as Greece, just they're muslim.
 
Maybe some form of legalism takes hold in a dictatorship?

That could work. From what I know of legalism it was pretty much a dictator's dream come true and made twentieth century police states look laid back. All it'd take is a particularly paranoid and control freak dictator who doesn't have particularly strong ties to a conflicting ideology to learn about it when conditions are right and get ideas.
 
Romania during the '70s and '80s counts, it was basically Juche with Romanian characteristics. Ceausescu and his wife Elena became close friends with Kim Il Sung after a visit to North Korea in '71, and Ceausescu was so impressed he decided to remake Romanian society in the Kims' image.
 
Peruvian Shining Path' maoism might be Marxist, but a lot of the rethoric was based on Mao himself, especially the rural glorification, that might count?

Lee and Park being imitated for Latin American strongmen dictators is also a good idea.
 
What about the Three Principles of the People in a "victorious KMT China" scenario influencing someone like Peron in Argentina or Velasco in Peru?
 
Perhaps an ideology like Apartheid or Sankarism can take root somewhere where ethnonationalist conflicts are serious and there is already a great degree of collectivism in that society
 
What if the Byzantines lose in Constantinople in 717-18? Would more of Southeastern Europe have converted to Islam? And how would that have affected European states' relations with Asian countries further down the line?
 
This sounds to me arbitrary. Turkey is in NATO, was a member of the European Economic Community, is a secular state presently. They're jsut as western as Greece, just they're muslim.
Their participation is determined by realpolitik, not geography, so that can't really be used as proof.

The preponderance of Turkish territory, including their capitol, lies in Asia. They are an eastern power.
 
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