The Slavs will never be Westerners
A culture transforms along with history; you cannot change history, therefore you cannot change a culture. For example: The Latin West downloaded the raw source code of Greek thought (the texts of Plato and Aristotle). It had to write its own compiler (scholasticism) to make it function in its new environment (medieval Christianity). This allowed for numerous modifications and innovations. The Orthodox Slavic world directly received an already-compiled executable program (the Byzantine-Christian synthesis)...