Western belief in its own cultural universality is false, immoral, and dangerous.

Evidence

In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous. That it is false has been the central thesis of this book, a thesis well summed up by Michael Howard: the “common Western assumption that cultural diversity is a historical curiosity being rapidly eroded by the growth of a common, western-oriented, Anglophone world-culture, shaping our basic values … is simply not true.” — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 859

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distills Huntington’s core thesis into a compact three-part claim that recurs throughout the book.