# The roots of the West’s identity crisis

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Podcast: [The EI Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386)
Published: 2026-04-16T08:37:46+00:00
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## Resource

Marie Kawthar Daouda, author of Not Your Victim: How our Obsession with Race Entraps and Divides Us , speaks to EI’s Alastair Benn about the historical illiteracy of attempts to ‘decolonise’ Western culture. Instead, she argues that the moral complexities of history must be accepted in order to develop a genuine appreciation of the Western tradition. Image: ‘Ruins with an Obelisk in the distance’ by Hubert Robert (1775). Credit: Alamy

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