gambit
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You are not living up to the standards alleged to your group. People are naturally biased in many ways at many levels. The most basic is the family unit and the loyalties rises from there. The issue here is whether a person chose to subordinate his cultural biases and affiliations to his political ones, or to his ideological ones, or to his religious ones. No one is saying that the Americas and Europe are monocultural, but we do share the same religious foundation that came from 'The Old World'. During The Cold War, many chose to subordinate this commonality to their ideological beliefs and the result was an ideological conflict between 'The West' and the 'Communist bloc'.There isn't any clash of civilization. There's competition between nations to overpower each other and gain resources. That is an eternal source of conflict.
The clash of civilization is a convenient excuse to point out foes based on ideology. For example, none of those grouped civilizations are monocultural. The Islamic ones are not for sure, Eastern Europe, again not, Western Europe hardly. If the clash of civilization were true, it wouldn't be possible for migrants from one group to go to live in the other (because the civilizations clash). This is proven rubbish. There is only a clash of civilization when people make one.The timeframe does make it a bogus concept imo.
If in one timeframe the clash is with Pagan, then it switches to Communists, then it switches to Muslims, that shows that something else is causing the clash in civilization other than culture.
It is about the subordination of one set of moralities to another in the face of a threat that may defeat many sets of moralities. China recognized this a long time when Mao considered China to be the leader of 'The Third World'. What is 'The West' -- or any other bloc for that matter -- is increasingly notional rather than geographical, although geography does influence the formation of these blocs. At the very least, the notion is at a par with the geography in terms of importance and identification.
Conflicts between civilizations are already happening in the UK and in Europe where conclaves of Muslims decided to at least attempt make their communities' customs and laws affiliated with Islam to be at par with the laws and customs of the host countries, if not outright superior. You cannot do that unless you have already identified that which is hostile to your own belief systems. The next logical course of actions would be to enact protective measures for your own community.