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Thread #123640   Message #2724513
Posted By: CarolC
15-Sep-09 - 09:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: Resolving the Clash of Civilizations
Subject: RE: BS: Resolving the Clash of Civlizations
I think I would not characterize it as a clash of civilizations. I think I would characterize it as a conflict between colonizers and the colonized. As noted in the video, the majority of people in the world want to get along with the other people in the world. But governments often make that a very difficult thing to accomplish. There are financial and balance of power incentives for governments to create and maintain animosity between peoples, and to create and promote stereotypes about some groups of people, at the expense of those groups. This is why we think there is a clash of civilizations going on now. Because it serves someone's agenda to mislead us into thinking that this is what is taking place, and to incite us to hate those whom they want us to hate.