Being a part of a group or having an identity is something
that we cherish so dearly people die, or even kill for it. Samuel P Huntington
saw these patterns of conflict on many different levels affecting many
different people. We had a world with both the modern people who cannot quite
reach out to what group they belong to (Black or white) for instance in bi
racial kids. Or possably the old ways of the world (Amish) kids and their
choices. These separations lead us to an idea in which we do not belong. In a
world that is separated from the modern industrial world to the ritual farm
communities. The Cold War had a large effect of the spread of industrialized
ideas of the west and the more conservative collectivistic view in the east.
Both sides were scared of each other for the simple idea that they did not
understand each other, and they were different. The way we look at culture is
threw the traditions that are passed along by our relatives. Our parent teaches
us our morals and our ideologies political regimes and we may even inherit
their conflict. We have to look at civilization on two different levels, the macro
and the micro level. The Micro level is the smaller level of life; the everyday
routines and the smaller community, a town. The Macro level is looking at the
big picture, the economy, the military overall the counties or areas well-being
on a global scale. Huntington expresses that we have a major social conflict
between the old ways working well for the micro level, and the new industrial ways
of the macro future. We can look at these conflicts the same way we look at the
world with the west being the Macro level trying to spread our way of life. And
the east is the micro level, smaller weaker, be set in the ways of the past,
and will fight for there way of living. When we can combine these ways of
living, then we can heal and live together in unity.
