The British world model of world history

We lack a holistic model that integrates how the world collectively changed over the past 500 years. Why, for instance, do the elites of India justify their role in society through technical prowess? Why is China's eastern seaboard a cliff of high-rises? Why do the Sheiks of the United Arab Emirates feel compelled to build seven star hotels and a palm shaped island staffed with Indians and managed by Britons, Australians, and Germans? It is because western interaction accounts for such a large proportion of how world culture developed that we have long ago reached a tipping point, and though it is perhaps an exaggeration to claim that we have one world culture that is western, it is a statement that increasingly reflects the configuration of our globalised world.