Culture clash arguments naturalize capitalism and gender as markers of civilizational progress

Evidence

Inglehart and Norris anticipate several of the arguments to be found in Fallaci, Chesler, and Manji and by the majority of those who positively reviewed their books. As in Rising Tide, these arguments naturalise free market capitalism considering it to be a feature of modern civilizations. Muslims, trapped in the pre-modern, not only fail in the economic realm but remain locked into tribal cultures in which women are treated particularly badly. As with all culture clash explanations, the modern and the pre-modern exist as discrete realms with the latter stuck in culture and the former having progressed to the age of enlightenment. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 212

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘culture clash’ analytical frame: discrete modern/pre-modern realms where the former has progressed to enlightenment and the latter remains stuck in tradition.
• XREF: connects to: Lyotard naturalized capitalism’s victory as pre-human cosmic natural selection — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 78