"Western" culture isn't the problem

When you're trying to diagnose a problem, it's important to have the right cause. When I lived in America, a lot of lefty political diatribes that I heard were full of references to "Western culture does [insert bad thing here]", "people in Western culture are taught [insert bad belief here]." Particularly around indigenous issues, what seems to be meant is "those modern, industrialized cultures which have oppressed indigenous people around the globe, especially if the people in those cultures had dark skin." Now that I live in Australia, however, the term "Western culture" doesn’t sit as well with me. Which cultures and nations have traditionally colonized others? Though it mostly colonized the Americas in its early days, for the past century the U.S. has been a strong global force for colonialism. The nations of Europe have been colonized and have colonized others many times over. Australia and New Zealand are now separate nations, with mainstream cultures born of European backgrounds, but they are not geographically "Western." The Chinese have a long history of imperialism, colonizing many indigenous peoples of Asia. Ask the indigenous Ainu of Japan if colonialism is a disease only of Western nations. In fact, the colonizers and the colonized are spread throughout Asia, the Middle East, the Americas, Africa, Australia and the Pacific, so "Western culture" just doesn’t capture it. Furthermore, materialism and alienation from the natural world are just as rampant in urban Asia as in urban European-derived nations. I think a more accurate way to put it in today’s world would be "modern industrial technological" culture, but it’s a bit unwieldy. And indigenous cultures have plenty of technology, it’s just different technology. What to do, linguistically? Perhaps we should say "modern industrial culture." MIC, that's it. I'm from a MIC.