Sonny's Blues
"The Clash of Civilizations"
Samuel Huntington defines a civilization by stating that it is a cultural entity. He feels that villages, regions, ethnic groups, nationalities and religious groups all have distinct cultures at different levels of cultural heterogeneity. Even though cultures may be separated by different parts of a village, both may share culture commonalities that separate them from other cultures. Examples include: European communities share cultural features that distinguish them from Arab or Chinese communities. He believes that a civilization is the highest cultural grouping of people and broadest level of cultural identity people have short of that which distinguishes humans from other species.
According to Huntington, civilizations are defined by common objective elements, such as history, religion, customs, language, institutions, as well as subjective self-identification of people. People have different levels of identity and one can define......
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