Tag: Western Values

About the ‘Clash of Civilisations’

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-31/dal-santo-are-we-creating-the-clash-of-civilizations/5856832

 

Matthew Dal Santo writes in the DRUM:

 

Are we creating the ‘clash of civilisations’?

By Matthew Dal Santo

t seems the only way we can understand the events in the world is to boil them down to a confrontation between the “West” and some anti-Western “other”. What consequences does this have? Matthew Dal Santo writes.

Is this “clash of civilisations” real or are we talking ourselves into it?

 

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In his famous and controversial Clash of Civilizations, Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington argued that the 21st century would be the era not of the nation-state but civilisations, transcending state borders and uniting in a common culture and shared values the energies and aspirations of diverse peoples and polities.

 

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Dal Santo argues that language matters.  And Huntington wrote:

“The security of the world requires acceptance of global multi-culturality,”

 

I reckon the above article is worth reading and trying to think about what  we want to accomplish with our “Western” values.