Monday, 22 September 2008

Huntington

"in post Cold War World flags count and so do other symbols of cultural identity...because culture counts, and cultural identity is whit is meaningful for most people." 1(20)

7-8 major civilizations in post Cold War world 2(26-29)

"the forces of integration in the world are real and are precisely what are generating counterforces of cultural assertion and civilizational consciousness"3 (36)

"The world... is divided between a Western one and a non-Western many." 4(36)

"Latin America...distinct identity which differentiates it from the West...offspring of European civilization...evolved along...different path from Europe and North America...corporatist authoritarian culture...historically...Latin America has been only Catholic...incorporates indigineous cultures." 5(46)

Latin America divided in self-identification and relationship with the West "Latin America could be considered either a subcivilization within Western civilization or a separate civilization closely affiliated with the West and divided as to whether it belongs to the West."6 (46)

"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion...but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non Westerners never do." 7(51)

common cross civilization intellectual culture may exist but limited in scope and shallow in depth.8 (57-58)

Arrogance to believe that the consumption of Western goods leads to acceptance of Western values9 (58)

"Brazil... is to Latin America what Iran is to Islam. Otherwise well-qualified to be a core-state subcivilization differences [language in the case of Brazil] make it difficult to assume that role."10 (136)

"what is universalism to the West is imperialism to the rest...Double standards in practice are the unavoidable price of universal standards in principle."11 (184)

"The new wave of migration was in part the product of decolonization, the establishment of new states and state policies that encouraged or forced people to move."12 (199)

ambiguous response of the West to migration became more negative in the post 1980 period13 (199)

"migrants have large fertility rates and hence account for most future population growth in Western societies."14 (200)

Cost of restricting migration 1) fiscal costs 2) alienating existing communities 3) long term labour shortages and lower rates of growth (204)

Muslim migration likely to reduce with stabilization and decline of population growth in Muslim countries, the same is not true for Sub Saharan Africa15 (204)

"differences between the West and Latin America remain small compared to those between the West and other civilizations."16 (241)

1Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, (Kingsway: Simon & Schuster, 1997) 20.

2Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, (Kingsway: Simon & Schuster, 1997) 2629.

3Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, (Kingsway: Simon & Schuster, 1997) 36.

4Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, (Kingsway: Simon & Schuster, 1997) 36.

5Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, (Kingsway: Simon & Schuster, 1997) 46.

6Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, (Kingsway: Simon & Schuster, 1997) 46.

7Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, (Kingsway: Simon & Schuster, 1997) 51.

8Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, (Kingsway: Simon & Schuster, 1997) 5758.

9Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, (Kingsway: Simon & Schuster, 1997) 58.

10Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, (Kingsway: Simon & Schuster, 1997) 136.

11Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, (Kingsway: Simon & Schuster, 1997) 184.

12Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, (Kingsway: Simon & Schuster, 1997) 199.

13Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, (Kingsway: Simon & Schuster, 1997) 199.

14Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, (Kingsway: Simon & Schuster, 1997) 200.

15Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, (Kingsway: Simon & Schuster, 1997) 204.

16Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, (Kingsway: Simon & Schuster, 1997) 241.

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