The West Won The World Not By

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.

Also, Of Course, For Most Of This Time Most Americans Thought Of America As A White Country With, At Best, Only A Very Segregated And Subordinate Role For Blacks.

It Is My Hypothesis That The Fundamental Source Of Conflict In This New [post-cold-war] World Will Not Be Primarily Ideological Or Primarily Economic. The Great Divisions Among Humankind And The Dominating Source Of Conflict Will Be Cultural. Nation States Will Remain The Most Powerful Actors In World Affairs, But The Principal Conflicts Of Global Politics Will Occur Between Nations And Groups Of Different Civilizations. The Clash Of Civilizations Will Dominate Global Politics. The Fault Lines Between Civilizations Will Be The Battle Lines Of The Future.

People Everywhere Talk About Islam And The West. Presumably That Has Some Relationship To Reality, That These Are Entities That Have Some Meaning And They Do. Of Course The Core Ofthat Reality Is Differences In Religion.

The United States Has Been An Immigrant Country. The Hispanics Who Come Here Are Largely From Mexico And South America. They Are Catholics, But That Is An American Religion. One-third Of Our Population Is Catholic So That Does Not Have The Same Impact As Muslims Coming Into Europe.