In the world today, many parts of the world are pre-modern, which is to say that they are dominated by residual forms of primary oral culture. But we should remember that an estimated one billion people in the world today do not know how to read or write any language, which means that they live in a residual form of oral culture and will not be using computers or the Internet.
Therefore, the clash of cultures is here to stay for the foreseeable future as economic globalization propels capitalism and the culture of capitalism to make inroads in pre-modern parts of the world today and as American foreign policy continues to promote democracy in pre-modern parts of the world today as though democracy were a panacea, which it is not.
In light of the inevitable discomforts connected with economic globalization, the U.S. should stop promoting democracy in pre-modern parts of the world today, because of the further discomforts that democracy and the culture of democracy would inevitably bring to those parts of the pre-modern world. By stopping its democracy promotion campaign, the U.S. will be taking a cautionary step to protect against straining pre-modern parts of the world too much. In this way, the U.S. can help deter possible violence associated with the inevitable clash of cultures.
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