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POLS 310 Chapter 1 Part 16 o The contemporary globalized culture is highly secular, and that itself is a source of tension.  Critics of the culture contend it is based on the constant pressure to purchase more and more material products, with marketing specialists who create artificial demands for the latest, newest, most improved telephone, television, automobile, clothing, etc.  This global consumer culture is the target of many critics including “deep green” ecotopians and some fundamentalist religious communities  These groups object to the emphasis on materialism and the undermining of traditional norms and values that goes with Western movies, music, fashion, and art o The “clash of civilizations” (Samuel P Huntington 1993) is the defining conflict of the post-Cold War international system o The “clash of civilizations” characterization has certainly been fashionable  There is something distinctly uncompromising about a conflict between those on the one side who support democracy, pluralism, individualism, and a separation between church and state and those on the other side who preach intolerance and support theocracy while calling for armed struggle and jihad against the unbeliever  Not that those views are shared by all Muslims. These radical views are rou