The Clash Of Ignorance

There is little understanding among people on how today’s world will end. It seems to be that our differences are quite stronger than our similarities. When educated people talk of war, conflicts,and since 1993, of clash of civilizations, I ask myself; do civilized people actually fight? What is mankind’s purpose on earth then? This is what Ignorance is about. It means to look at the worldthrough the eyes of a child for whom all is unexpected, challenging, complicated, and ultimately, irreparable.
Said wrote this article as a critical response to Huntington’s view of the world after theCold War. He did not believe in the battle of ideologies, but in the reconciliation of them. He considered precisely that the construction of these two worlds (West and the rest), produce thesecultural problems and misunderstandings; the clash of civilizations.
This collision of cultures showed itself as an unchanging fate. However, I personally believe that Huntington’s paradigms were tooclosed-minded, in fact, somehow disturbing. Said wisely wrote in response; “…We are all swimming in those waters, Westerners and Muslims and others alike. And since the waters are part of the ocean ofhistory, trying to plow or divide them with barriers is futile”. We live in a global community which is changing and dynamic; not as solid as the world described by Huntington.
I find illogical howHuntington puts Latin American Civilization separated from "The West" in his article. Even though we have differences regarding language, religion and politics, our core is made by the western thought, asour continent suggests, “Latin America”. How can we label the world this radically when globalization unite us and blend us all? Edward Said exemplifies it by saying, “Think of the populations todayof France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Britain, America, even Sweden, and you must concede that Islam is no longer on the fringes of the West but at its center”. Likewise, Hispanics are not so different...