Every Civilization Sees Itself As The Center

Collective Will Supplants Individual Whim

The Major Difference For Us In America With Respect To Hispanic Immigration Is That It Is So Large And That It Is Coming From Neighboring Countries Rather Than Those Countries Off The Atlantic Or Pacific. That Creates Different Issues And Different Problems For Us As Compared To The Past. It Is Still Very Different, However, From The Situation In Europe Where We See People With A Very Different Non-european Religion Coming From Neighboring Countries.

Maybe Iraq Will Come Back And Become The Dominant Power Among Arab Countries. That Seems To Me As Conceivable.

Certainly Here In The U.s., We've Had Fundamentalist Movements That Have Taken Very Critical And Hostile Attitudes Toward Immigration And The Assimilation Of Immigrants Into Our Society And Culture. So These Tendencies Are Fairly Universal. The Problem Is What If They Get Out Of Hand And Become The Dominant Factor In A Society, Which Can Only Lead To The Oppression Of Minorities Or Even To War With Neighboring Societies With Differing Cultures. That's Why It Seems To Me It's Important To Try To Keep These Tendencies Toward Extremism Under Control.

The West Won The World Not By The Superiority Of Its Ideas Or Values Or Religion […] But Rather By Its Superiority In Applying Organized Violence. Westerners Often Forget This Fact; Non-westerners Never Do.