Well we've all moved away from our old civilizations but less in the East compared to the West. I say that about EU mainly because of how they have turn themselves into tools in the hands of US which is destroying every culture and civilization in the world. Just look at the recent EU capitulation and how they just bend the knee in front of Trump and gave him everything they had, money, industries, dignity, ... We've even seen how US is even meddling in their internal affairs, even their elections!
I can’t agree less with you , recently I learnt how the US have used different strategies and fundings to destroy my country and culture sponsoring a terrorist group through a funding called USAID , in the list was mentioned other groups like the ISIS, while my country is the Boko haram, which country will have this knowledge and wouldn’t want to partner with the he Brics, if more countries begins to find out that they are being destroyed with the help of the EU they will definitely flee from them hence the chance of BRICS increasing is higher. The EU has been belittled to a great extent yet they aren’t seeing it because they are tools and tools only do the works which it’s assigned to.