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Samuel P. Huntington
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Samuel P. Huntington
Age: 81 †
Born: 1927
Born: April 18
Died: 2008
Died: December 24
Economist
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New York City
New York
Samuel Phillips Huntington
Samuel Huntington
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In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics.
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I think it's hard to talk about the Muslim world and Christian world as blocks.
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U.S. foreign policy is in every area impacted by ethnic groups of one sort or another as well as economic groups and regional groups.
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Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in rhetoric, if not practice, of liberal democracy.
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I think we can expect leaders of Muslim societies to cooperate with each other on many issues just as Western societies cooperate with each other.
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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 is Islam, a different civilisation whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power.
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Iran of course is Shiite, while the bulk of the Arabs are Sunni, that is a problem or could be a problem. Also, there is the simple fact that Iran is non-Arab and most of the Muslims in the Middle East are Arab.
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People have multiple identities.
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I've been to Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait for brief visits at conferences, and they are very interesting countries.
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I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures.
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It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.
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The relations between countries in the coming decade are most likely to reflect their cultural commitments, their cultural ties and antagonism with other countries.
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When you have increased migration of peoples and ethnic and religious minorities, you develop a set of rules and language the larger society can accept and the minority community can accept.
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I don't say that the West is united, I don't suggest that.
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It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?
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When I think of countries that I enjoyed visiting, that I would want to go back to, Italy would be one, Japan would be another. I've only been to Indonesia once or twice and it seems like such a fascinating country. I guess India certainly.
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We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.
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Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so far short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a lie it is a disappointment. But it can be a disappointment only because it is also a hope.
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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 serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.
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When you mention the word ideology, everyone has communism in the back of their minds, which was an entirely well formulated ideology and statement of belief. You read the Communist Manifesto and you know what the core of it is.
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