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“Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.”
― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

tags: anthropology, history

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“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.”
― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

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“In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.”
― Samuel P Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

tags: cultural-biases, culture, international-relations, western-civilization, western-culture, westernization

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“Arabs and other Muslims generally agreed that Saddam Hussein might be a bloody tyrant, but, paralleling FDR's thinking, "he is our bloody tyrant." In their view, the invasion was a family affair to be settled within the family and those who intervened in the name of some grand theory of international justice were doing so to protect their own selfish interests and to maintain Arab subordination to the west.”
― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

tags: american-foreign-policy, gulf-war, imperialism, iraq, islam, military-intervention, saddam-hussein, tyranny, united-nations, war, western-hypocrisy

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“An industrial policy worked in Taiwan only because the state was able to shield its planning technocrats from political pressures so that they could reinforce the market and make decisions according to criteria of efficiency—in other words, worked because Taiwan was not governed democratically. An American industrial policy is much less likely to improve its economic competitiveness, precisely because America is more democratic than Taiwan or the Asian NIEs. The planning process would quickly fall prey to pressures from Congress either to protect inefficient industries or to promote ones
favored by special interests.”
― Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man

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