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Byline: Joseph Contreras, With Jennifer Ordonez in Los Angeles and Arian Campo-Flores in Miami
In his provocative 1996 book "The Clash of Civilizations," Samuel P. Huntington argued that culture would replace ideology as the principal cause of conflict in the 21st century. The Harvard professor foresaw a collision of "Western arrogance, Islamic intolerance and [Chinese] assertiveness" that would dominate global politics in the post-cold-war era. In his new book, "Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity," the conservative Cassandra looks at American society through that same cultural prism and discerns an internal clash of civilizations: the new ...