Are we using the term “modernization” as a blanket to soften the effects of cultural assimilation?

Are these characterisations better than traditional stereotypes? Maybe, but it is also lazy.

"As a teenage Tamil boy who witnessed many atrocities firsthand in Northern Sri Lanka, I know this well—' nobody survives a war whole.’ Like some Eelam Tamils, I was one of the lucky ones. Those of us who witnessed the era of Sri Lankan brutality and war, which left many Tamils to be displaced and stateless, must always remember this."