"The argument now that the spread of pop……" — Samuel P. Huntington
"The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Western culture. The essence of Western civilization is the Magna Carta, not the Magna Mac. The fact that non-Westerners may bite into the latter has no implications for their accepting the former."
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Samuel P. Huntington
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40 Quotes by Samuel P. Huntington
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Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It…
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In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three…
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It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological…
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Collective will supplants individual whim
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Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.
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Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human…
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These transnationalists have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national…
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It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to…
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best,…
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And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly…
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But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a…
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I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights…
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