Normatively the Western universalist belief posits that people throughout the world should embrace Western values, institutions, and culture because they emb...

Normatively the Western universalist belief posits that people throughout the world should embrace Western values, institutions, and culture because they embody the highest, most enlightened, most liberal, most rational, most modern, and most civilized thinking of humankind. In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.

quote by Samuel P. Huntington
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
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