In his essay "The Crash of Civilization," Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington makes some sense when he says that the entire 20th century has been enmeshed in political strife and torn between opposing ideologies. As the century comes to a close, conflict is being reconfigured as it returns to all the various individual civilizations and cultures.
美國哈佛大學教授杭廷頓在「文明的衝突」一文中說的一個觀點是有道理的。他認為，整個二十世紀世界上長久來處於政治戰爭和意識形態對立當中，世紀快結束時，許多衝突都要回到各個文明、文化的本位上重新組合。