Huntington: The clash of civilisations
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- Huntington: The clash of civilisations
- Religion has been the centre of a number of recent global conflicts.
- For example: 9/11 Islamist attacks in the USA.
- Religious differences create a new set of hostile us and them with increased competition between civilisations for economic and military power.
- Evaluation
- Jackson: Sees Huntington's work as an example of "orientalism," (A Western ideology that stereotypes Eastern nations and people (especially Muslims) such as untrustworthy, inferior or fanatical others.
- The real clash of civilisations?
- World Values Survey data indicates that the issue dividing the West from the Muslim world is democracy but sexuality.
- Support for democracy is high both in the West and in Islamic countries but there are great differences in attitudes to divorce, abortion, gender equality and gay rights.
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- Support for democracy is high both in the West and in Islamic countries but there are great differences in attitudes to divorce, abortion, gender equality and gay rights.
- World Values Survey data indicates that the issue dividing the West from the Muslim world is democracy but sexuality.
- Evaluation
- History is a struggle of progress against barbarous.
- There is increased conflict between the West and the rest.
- Religious conflicts have intensified since the collapse of communism is 1989 and are symptoms of a wider clash of civilisations.
- 4. Japanese
- 3. Confucian (China)
- 6. Slavic-Orthodox
- 2. Latin America
- 5. Islamic
- 1.Western
- 7. Hindu
- Each civilisation has a common cultural background and is closely identified with one of the world's great religions.
- Since the fall of communism, religious differences have become a major source of identity.
- Globalisation also makes nation-states less important as a source of identity and makes contact between civilisations easier, increasing the likelihood of old conflicts re-emerging.
- Religion has been the centre of a number of recent global conflicts.
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