Has a country or it's people ever changed their culture/religion/national language by their own choice rather than due to colonization or being forced to do so?

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theellsee

I'm not a historian, but Ataturk's reforms in post-Ottoman Turkey comes to mind. Turkey wasn't technically colonized, but I do think the reforms were a result of cultural imperialism that privileged Western norms.

gingerkid1234

Sorry, but throughout-history questions aren't allowed in the rules.