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Don't be absurd. I know of some Indian classical music (Nikhil Banerhee, not just Ravi Shankar meets the Beatles) some Indonesian Gamelan music, classical Japanese, classical Chinese, Classical / liturgical Korean choral music, some African musics, music from the Gobi desert tribe peoples, American Indian traditional music..... because I am truly interested in good music of all sorts.

I studied western classical from the age of six and happen to know a lot of that music, from the 1300's to the present day.

IF those non-westerners happen to like western music (and they likely like their native folk and classical traditional music as well) they are probably, like me, those who just like good music.

Non-westerners would not keep listening to Western classical music if there was nothing there in it for them, and the opposite is true.

There are also now classical composers who come from those non-western countries, who write contemporary classical which has much of either their traditional music in it, or an obvious different approach to music and timbre which clearly comes form their culture, and that is also consumed by the western people who listen to classical.

No one is forcing any one anywhere to listen to this music or that.... your political premise about why which music is popular where is just false.

Best regards.

You mean no-one apart from the 1.25 billion people who live in India? ☺

Western classical music is basically European and the Europeans have had a historical tendency to force their will on all kinds of countries round the globe. They took their music with them.

I am Eurpoean and I see more Indian and Chinese music in our future, though!