Rethinking Identity & Relationship to Others
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Immanuel Wallerstein makes an interesting point when he notes that the end of the Cold War that raged from the conclusion of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990-1991 created a world in which people were relatively sure of their identity. The old bipolar world in which two major superpowers û the United States and the Soviet Union û made it possible for people to know instinctively who they were nd the "others" were. With the end of the Cold War, it became necessary for individuals and entire peoples to rethink their identity and their relationships to other groups. In this chapter, Wallerstein attempts to answer the key questions of "who are we" and "who are the others." Wallerstein states that the demise of the bipolar world was greeted as "the end of history," but this did not come to pass. What was expected to occur was the anticipated "clash of civilizations" in which very different belief and value systems and opposing cultures struggl
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Approximate Word count = 657
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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