The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order - Samuel P. Huntington

I. A World of Civilizations
  Chapter 2 Civilizations in History and Todayまで読了。

昨日、読む方は大丈夫だけれど書く方は…。と書きましたけれど、原因は僕の語彙が少ないことにあるようです。ちょっと増やしていかないとやっぱりしんどいなぁ…。

The expansion of the West was also facilitated by the superiority in organization, discipline, and training of its troops and subsequently by the leadership in the Industrial Revolution. The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order,
I. A World of Civilizations, Chapter 2 Civilizations in History and Today, Relations Among Civilizations.

　これはWestだけに限った話ではないでしょう。60年近く前に日本がやったことでもそうですし、日常でも、このあたりのことがわかっていないことが原因でいろんなトラブルが起きています。大なり小なり。ここに挙げられたものは、最もと言っていいほど大きなものですが。