Culture Wars and the Global Village - 9781573928014

Prometheus Books

Culture Wars and the Global VillageA Diplomats Perspective\nAuthor(s): Carleton S. Coon\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Prometheus Books, United States\nImprint: Prometheus Books\nISBN-13: 9781573928014, 978-1573928014\nSynopsis\nWhy is there so much conflict in the Balkans, the Middle East, Africa, and many other parts of the world? Is there something innate in human nature that makes it next to impossible to achieve peaceful coexistence? The answer, says career diplomat Carl Coon, must be sought in the distant prehistoric past when intergroup hostility became ingrained as a pattern of cultural evolution. For thousands of generations, our ancestors organised themselves in distinctive groups that competed with one another. Sometimes the competition was peaceful, but more often than not the struggle took violent [url] we still witness the vestiges of these prehistoric roots when the intermingling of different ways of life results not in harmonious co-operation but in animosity, conflict.