I want to pick your brains and read your opinions on something, if you have a moment.
I am currently recording and editing a video critiquing Samuel Huntington's theory of a clash of civilisations. His theory basically is that the world consists of civilisations that are shaped by common cultures, and those civilisations clash because of irreconcilable differences in cultural values.
A prediction Huntington made in the 1990s is that war between Russia and Ukraine is impossible, because those two countries share a common Slavic culture. I was going to make fun of that in the video. But....
After rereading Huntington's prediction, he argued that a war between Russia and Ukraine would be impossible because if Russia dared to do something so stupid, it would be "Russia's civilisational suicide". That if Russia went to war with Ukraine, it would lose its status as the centre of Slavic culture, and other Slavic nations like Ukraine or Poland would become the civilisational centres of Slavic culture.
Would it be too charitable for me to include this piece of context? Or should I just proceed to point out that Huntington's prediction was false?
Kraut
I want to pick your brains and read your opinions on something, if you have a moment.
I am currently recording and editing a video critiquing Samuel Huntington's theory of a clash of civilisations. His theory basically is that the world consists of civilisations that are shaped by common cultures, and those civilisations clash because of irreconcilable differences in cultural values.
A prediction Huntington made in the 1990s is that war between Russia and Ukraine is impossible, because those two countries share a common Slavic culture. I was going to make fun of that in the video. But....
After rereading Huntington's prediction, he argued that a war between Russia and Ukraine would be impossible because if Russia dared to do something so stupid, it would be "Russia's civilisational suicide". That if Russia went to war with Ukraine, it would lose its status as the centre of Slavic culture, and other Slavic nations like Ukraine or Poland would become the civilisational centres of Slavic culture.
Would it be too charitable for me to include this piece of context? Or should I just proceed to point out that Huntington's prediction was false?
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