Civilizational blocs as defined by Samuel P. Huntington pic.twitter.com/9EHNS4hn1z

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Part 1: Asia

• Why is Confucian a civilizational category? China is the only country in this "civilization" with a Confucian history, and even then its most dominant religion is Buddhism
• Why is Japan its own civilization but Mongolia and the Phillipines are a part of "Confucian civilization"?

Part 2: Indian subcontinent

• It should be obvious that Pakistan and Bangledesh are a part of the same civilization as India. Putting them in the same category as Turkey because they are Muslim is as ridiculous as grouping Finland and Nigeria into a "Christian" civilization

Part 3: Sealandia

• Papa New Guinea is Western? What? I genuinely can't even see any reasoning behind this.
• Indonesia has nothing in common with the rest of the Muslim world besides being mainly Muslim, and even then there are many other large religions there

Part 4: Africa

• Africa has for the vast majority of its history been primitive, only very recently getting to a point where they can be said to be a part of global civilization just barely, so putting them into a civilizational category is itself dubious
• There are plenty of Muslim Sub-Saharan countries, why are only Somalia and whatever those other countries are included?

Part 5: Middle East

• Israel isn't a part of Western civilization, and a cursory look at Samuel's political beliefs will explain why he thought that to be the case. It's main Jewish ethnic group is Mizrahim, which are of entirely Middle Eastern origin. Also saying that Ashkenazim/Sephardim are a part of western civilization is like saying that Gypsies are a part of western civilization.

Part 6: Europe

• Seperating western and eastern Europe is stupid, they are culturally distinct but this is a map of civilizations, not cultures. Also seperating Europe but grouping all Muslim countries displays a profound level of ignorance. Especially when israel is being grouped with Western civilization
• Poland and Greece are a part of Western civilization. Just why? Poland is Catholic, but other than that they are as similar to other eastern European countries as say Russia or Serbia. And Greece just has no reason at all to be grouped with the West.