Cultural difference determines Australias exclusion from Asia just as it does Turkeys from Europe

Evidence

Asians see a gap between Australia’s Asian rhetoric and its perversely Western reality. … Asians, in short, are determined to exclude Australia from their club for the same reason that Europeans do Turkey: they are different from us. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 414

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to Chapters 4-5 on the civilizational fault lines and the ‘torn country’ / ‘lone country’ framework for Turkey and Japan-Australia; this paragraph is the Australia instantiation of the same logic Huntington applies to Turkey.
• ADDENDUM: The Mahathir quote ‘It is not the color of the skin, but the culture’ parallels the immodesty-panic piece’s theme that cultural/identity markers function as boundary-signaling independent of surface rationales.