The main global divide is between one Western civilization and many dissimilar others

Evidence

The world is in some sense two, but the central distinction is between the West as the hitherto dominant civilization and all the others, which, however, have little if anything in common among them. The world, in short, is divided between a Western one and a non-Western many. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 75

Categorization

• XREF: This reformulation of the two-world model (West vs. everyone else) resonates with and complicates the general Rest vs. West framing in dependency and world-systems theory.