The unity of the non-West is a Western-created myth

Evidence

At some level, the West is an entity. What, however, do non-Western societies have in common other than the fact that they are non-Western? Japanese, Chinese, Hindu, Muslim, and African civilizations share little in terms of religion, social structure, institutions, and prevailing values. The unity of the non-West and the East-West dichotomy are myths created by the West. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 61

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on the reader’s knowledge of Edward Said’s Orientalism and its critique of the East-West binary, which the passage explicitly cites.
• SEED: Potential essay angle: how the ‘Global South’ framing erases the extreme internal diversity — religious, civilizational, institutional — of the countries lumped together as non-Western.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 61