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For over a century, the people of Arab and Muslim nations have been stereotyped as being terrorist, having radical religious tradition, or being seductive belly dancers or snake charms. The stereotypes overshadow the great accomplishment that the Arab nation had in the middle ages in the fields of science, literature, and mathematics before most of Europe was doing nothing in the those fields for hundreds of years. Two theorists have proposed theories to explain the emergence of the stereotypes and racism remakes. Huntington explains this theory in his article Clash of Civilizations stating that here is an inherent difference in the western culture compared to non-Western civilizations that cause most of the arguments. While another theorist by the name of Edward Said explains in his paper Orientalism, that there is no inherent clash between the two cultures. Although Said made a quality argument, Huntington theory has a stronger argument explain the issue on a global scale from both points of view, without many biases and political influence.
In Huntington’s work, he describes the clash in civilization in steps that all were essential in the development of his theory. He states by explains that all civilizations are different because of their history. Showing that no culture is the same is the first part of being able to stereotype the others. Second he explain as globalization increases, there are more interaction between civilization and more time to see into the lives of others. As the interactions increase the more time western influence shape the culture that they are using, essential separating the locals from their inherent culture forcing them to become more Westernized. Emerging the growth of civilization consciousness ...

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...time, he missed out on explaining the factors that also shape the world beside ideas and religious views. The lack of mentioning many political and economic factors made Said work seem bias coming from a European processor. Huntington explains that the lack of resource at that has been denied to the Arab/Islamic is an even bigger factor in the clash of civilizations then just stereotypes alone. The steps that Huntington proposed give a detailed descriptions on the underlying cause of the clash, explaining his point of view from earlier times to modern time with specific examples for each. Reading both article one notice that Said material might have a certain bias compared to Huntington of lean to the side of Europeans and their political view. By stating that Orientalism was used to control and dominate people instead of just to catorigize them like Said mentioned.