Trade reorientation toward Asia drove Australia’s identity redefinition gamble.

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 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Australia’s leaders chose to redefine it as an Asian society.; A Pacific identity could reconcile Australia’s Western culture with its geography — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 417; Cultural difference determines Australias exclusion from Asia just as it does Turkeys from Europe — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 414 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Australia’s leaders chose to redefine it as an Asian society. #expands (0.93)
• Cultural difference determines Australias exclusion from Asia just as it does Turkeys from Europe #complicates (0.80) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 414
• The colonial vertical-integration trade model persists despite reoriented trading partners #complicates (0.75)