The Practice of
Mutual Aid on a Planetary Scale
Maurício Andrés
Ribeiro
“We are striving to flourish
tomorrow as a new civilization,
mestizo and tropical, proud of herself.”
(Darcy Ribeiro)
Political scientist
Samuel Huntington proposes that the future will be shaped by the interactions
among some major civilizations: Western, Confucian (China), Japanese, Islamic,
Hindu (India), Slavic-Orthodox (Russia), Latin American and African. Bilateral
relations between them are in some cases conflictive and in other cases less
conflictive (…).
In his view, Latin American civilization has strong relationships
with the Western civilization of the North Atlantic (North America and Europe)
and has no significant links with the other ones. In this scheme, Brazil is not
visible and is perceived as part of the Latin American civilization.
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