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Originally Posted by c312
Don't get me wrong, Huntington's theory has some good points to it that make sense, but I'm not gonna just beleive it because I read it so it must be true. There is a lot of controversy over his theory, I feel some people just read it and cite it to sound smart and think it's a unanimous opinion in the world and that it must be true.
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Huntington's theory which as you pointed out was highly controversial, no one believed that what he explained would ever some true. I remember one part of his book he listed this statistic about muslims/catholics/buddhists/hinduism and other religions and the stats showed that over time muslims would over take christianity in a number of years (2025 I beleive, dont have the book on me so I can't tell you exactly) but he beleived that the world right now was split up into different sections - Muslim world, orthodox christian world etc...and he saw these worlds sooner or later clashing. Foreign policy would not be based on ideology any more it would be based on culture. I get your point about it being something in which you read and everyone is quick to use it as a footnote, but I believe that Hungtinton was really catching on to something with his theory and its extremely manipulative. (I remember coming out with a totally different outlook on foreign affairs after reading it)