Hi ManilaWasAlsoRaped.  Yes, that's your opinion--which could be said about anything culturally assimilated -- like in archi, music, etc. You'd probably ask 'what is ingenious about neo-classicism?  It had pretty much the same elements as classicism'.. You're free to think the way you you do, but I hope you realize that you're terribly intolerant of other people's heritage (I HOPE you're not Filipino)