Cultural similarity does not guarantee alignment when historical grievances persist

Evidence

Countries tend to bandwagon with countries of similar culture and to balance against countries with which they lack cultural commonality. This is particularly true with respect to the core states. Their power attracts those who are culturally similar and repels those who are culturally different. For security reasons core states may attempt to incorporate or to dominate some peoples of other civilizations, who, in turn, attempt to resist or to escape such control (China vs. Tibetans and Uighurs; Russia vs. Tatars, Chechens, Central Asian Muslims). Historical relationships and balance of power considerations also lead some countries to resist the influence of their core state. Both Georgia and Russia are Orthodox countries, but the Georgians historically have resisted Russian domination and close association with Russia. Vietnam and China are both Confucian countries, yet a comparable pattern of historical enmity has existed between them. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 421

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Unavailable cultural styles for activism can block otherwise obvious alliances — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 1495; Catastrophic conflict can rest on visible or cultural difference. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 700; Disputes over terminology for historical wrongs encode the same victim-perpetrator viewpoint gap. — Nurit Shnabel and Johannes Ullrich, Identity Needs in Intergroup Relations:…, 105