Editing Clash of Civilizations (section)

==Major civilizations according to Huntington==
[[File:Clash of Civilizations.png|thumb|center|750px|The clash of civilizations according to Huntington (1996) 
''The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order''<ref>[http://s02.middlebury.edu/FS056A/Herb_war/clash3.htm THE WORLD OF CIVILIZATIONS: POST-1990] scanned image {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312101415/http://s02.middlebury.edu/FS056A/Herb_war/clash3.htm |date=March 12, 2007 }}</ref><br> {{legend|#2F3699|Western Christendom}}
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Huntington divided the world into the "major civilizations" in his thesis as such:<ref>{{Cite web|last=Walter|first=Natalie|date=2016-06-15|title=Summary of "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order"|url=https://www.beyondintractability.org/bksum/huntington-clash|access-date=2021-10-28|website=Beyond Intractability|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1" />
* [[Western world|Western civilization]], comprising the [[United States]] and [[Canada]], [[Western Europe|Western]] and [[Central Europe]], most of the [[Philippines]], [[Australia]], and [[Oceania]]. Whether Latin America and the [[Post-Soviet states|former member states]] of the Soviet Union are included, or are instead their own separate civilizations, will be an important future consideration for those regions, according to Huntington. The traditional Western viewpoint identified Western Civilization with the [[Western Christianity|Western Christian]] ([[Catholic Church|Catholic]]-[[Protestantism|Protestant]]) countries and culture.<ref name="google.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/search?q=%22western+christianity%22+%22western+world%22|title="western christianity" "western world" - Google Search|website=google.com|access-date=2017-09-09}}</ref>
** [[Latin America]]n civilization, including [[South America]] (excluding [[Guyana]], [[Suriname]] and [[French Guiana]]), [[Central America]], [[Mexico]], [[Cuba]], and the [[Dominican Republic]] may be considered a part of Western civilization. Many people in [[South America]], [[Central America]] and [[Mexico]] regard themselves as full members of Western civilization. 
* [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] civilization, comprising [[Bulgaria]], [[Cyprus]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Greece]], [[Romania]], great parts of the former [[Post-Soviet states|Soviet Union]] and [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]].
** <small>Countries with a non-Orthodox majority are usually excluded e.g. Muslim [[Azerbaijan]] and Muslim [[Albania]] and most of [[Central Asia]], as well as majority Muslim regions in the [[Balkans]], [[Caucasus]] and central Russian regions such as [[Tatarstan]] and [[Bashkortostan]], Roman Catholic [[Slovenia]] and [[Croatia]], Protestant and Catholic [[Baltic states]]. However, [[Armenia]] is included, despite its dominant faith, the [[Armenian Apostolic Church]], being a part of [[Oriental Orthodoxy]] rather than the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]], and [[Kazakhstan]] is also included, despite its dominant faith being [[Sunni Islam]].</small>
* The [[Eastern world]] is the mix of the [[Buddhism|Buddhist]], [[Islamic]], [[Greater China|Chinese]], [[Hindu]], and [[Japan|Japonic]] civilizations. 
** The [[East Asian cultural sphere|Sinic civilization]] of China, the [[Korea]]s, [[Singapore]], [[Taiwan]], and [[Vietnam]]. This group also includes the [[Overseas Chinese|Chinese diaspora]], especially in relation to Southeast Asia.
** [[Japan]], considered a hybrid of Chinese civilization and older [[Altaic languages|Altaic]] patterns.
** The [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] cultures of [[Sri Lanka]], [[Myanmar]], [[Thailand]], [[Laos]], [[Cambodia]]; and also [[Tibet]], [[Mongolia]], and [[Bhutan]], are identified as separate from other civilizations, but Huntington believes that they do not constitute a major civilization in the sense of international affairs.
** [[Hindu]] civilization, located chiefly in [[India]] and [[Nepal]], and culturally adhered to by the global [[Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin|Indian diaspora]].
** <small>Part of [[Islamic]], located in Muslim-Majority countries which includes [[South Asian]] countries of [[Pakistan]], [[Afghanistan]] and [[Bangladesh]]. [[South East Asian]] countries of [[Indonesia]] and [[Malaysia]]</small>
* The [[Muslim world]] of the [[Greater Middle East]] (excluding [[Armenia]], [[Cyprus]], [[Ethiopia]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Israel]], [[Malta]] and [[South Sudan]]), northern [[West Africa]], [[Albania]], [[Pakistan]], [[Bangladesh]], parts of [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], [[Brunei]], [[Comoros]], [[Indonesia]], [[Malaysia]], [[Maldives]] and parts of south-western Philippines.
* The civilization of [[Sub-Saharan Africa]] located in southern Africa, Middle Africa (excluding Chad), East Africa (excluding [[Ethiopia]], the [[Comoros]], [[Mauritius]], and the [[Swahili coast]] of [[Kenya]] and [[Tanzania]]), [[Cape Verde]], [[Ghana]], the [[Ivory Coast]], [[Liberia]], and [[Sierra Leone]]. Considered as a possible eighth civilization by Huntington.
* [[South Africa]] is a stand alone nation once part of the western world now part of the African world. [[Afrikaners]] and [[White South Africans]] are part of the western world.[[Black South Africans]] are majority and dominate South African politics.They don't identify as westerners .They called themselves Africans.[[South Africa]] is a [[Civilization state]] because it aims to represent to represent the whole of African world including the [[Caribbean]] .[[Pan-Africanism]] is the leading ideology in South Africa.It opposes the west in international stage .
* Instead of belonging to one of the "major" civilizations, [[Ethiopia]] and [[Haiti]] are labeled as "Lone" countries. [[Israel]] could be considered a unique state with its own civilization, Huntington writes, but one which is extremely similar to the West. Huntington also believes that the [[Commonwealth Caribbean|Anglophone Caribbean]], former British colonies in the Caribbean, constitutes a distinct entity.
* There are also others which are considered "cleft countries" because they contain very large groups of people identifying with separate civilizations. Examples include [[Ukraine]] ("cleft" between its [[Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church|Eastern Rite Catholic]]-dominated western section and its [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)|Orthodox]]-dominated east), [[French Guiana]] (cleft between Latin America, and the West), [[Benin]], [[Chad]], [[Kenya]], [[Nigeria]], [[Tanzania]], and [[Togo]] (all cleft between Islam and Sub-Saharan Africa), [[Guyana]] and [[Suriname]] (cleft between Hindu and Sub-Saharan African), [[Sri Lanka]] (cleft between Hindu and Buddhist), and the Philippines (cleft between Islam, in the case of south western [[Mindanao]]; Sinic, in the case of [[Cordillera Administrative Region|Cordillera]]; and the Westernized Christian Majority). [[Sudan]] was also included as "cleft" between Islam and Sub-Saharan Africa; this division became a formal split in July 2011 following an overwhelming vote for independence by [[South Sudan]] in a [[South Sudanese independence referendum, 2011|January 2011 referendum]].