O diálogo inter-civilizacional

A propósito do texto de Adrano Moreira no Diário de Notícias e do post do Arnaldo, lembrei-me desta passagem em Identity and Violence de Amartya Sen:

"There are two distinct difficulties with the theory of civilization clash. The first, which is perhaps more fundamental, relates to the viability of classifying people according to civilizations to which they allegedly "belong". This question arises well before problems with the view that people thus classified into cartons of civilizations must be somehow antagonistic (...) Underlying the thesis of a civilization clash lies a much more general idea of the possibility of seeing people primarily as belonging to one civilization or another. The relations between different persons in the world can be seen, in this reductionist approach, as relations between the respective civilizations to which they allegedly belong (...) Indeed even the opponents of the theory of a civilization clash can, in effect, contribute to propping up its intellectual foundation if they begin by accepting the same singular classification of the world population".(pp. 40-41)