Sources of Conflict in Contemporary World

Cultural factors are not the central elements of the "new world" of the post-Cold War era, as Huntington argues. Huntington argues that the cultural divisions and conflicts of the "new world" will be based on basic differences among the civilizations of the West, the East, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa, and then concludes that even economics will be based on such cultural divisions: "economic regionalism is increasing. . . . Successful economic regionalism will reinforce civilization-consciousness" (27). If we take as an example

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isleads Lauren into believing that the issue of race is central to historical conflict in the world. Racism was and is a convenient vehicle for such exploitation and conflict. Had the people of the industrialized nations been dark-skinned rather than white, it is likely that the reverse economic order would have resulted. Race simply happened to be a convenient way for white people to rationalize their fundamentally economic abuse of people of color, just as it would have served to rationalize exploitation of whites had the races been in opposite positions. Is race a factor in the exploitation of poor whites by rich whites in the United States? Is race a factor in the exploitation of poor blacks by rich blacks in Africa? Is race a factor in the exploitation of poor brown people by rich brown people in Latin America? Is race a factor in the exploitation of poor Chinese by rich Chinese in China? The point here is that race is a secondary factor rather than central in the abuse and exploitation of one group by another in a single nation and between nations. The essential factor is economic---those who have the economic power will exploit those who do not have such power. If the exploiters and exploited are of the same color, th
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