Civilizations in example sentence

For radical Islamists (and some Westerners), the rise of Islam sets the scene for a “clash of civilizations,” which they welcome as a polarizing device that will allow them to recruit from the much larger Muslim mainstream.

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As Jared Diamond and others have shown us, this is how civilizations commit suicide, by slamming their foot on the accelerator at the exact moment when they should be putting on the brakes.

In many ways, it's the most parochial, because for 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other civilizations.

Civilizations and cultures, which had been ignored, which had no voice, which were not listened to, which were not known about, will have a different sort of representation in this world.

As humanists, we must welcome, surely, this transformation, and we will have to learn about these civilizations.

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