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The Clash of Civilizations

If Books Could Kill

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What Is Cultural Identity?

The author argues that the fault lines of conflict are going to be quote unquote civilizations. He makes a series of sweeping statements and then he gives as evidence, like here's these two random things that have nothing to do with each other. The definition that he gives is it's the biggest we that every person has. And basically, when you take them up to their highest level of abstraction, that's where you find a small number of civilizations globally that essentially everybody falls under one of these categories.

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