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...Khan explains his idea of a “clash of ignorances”—a reworking of the much-hyped “clash of civilizations.” He said he blames much of the friction between the West and the Muslim world on a shallow understanding of Islam in the West...
...truism in politics: support for environmental causes tends to be broad, but shallow. Broad, because most voters support political action to protect the Earth, and not even the most conservative of politicians want to be seen as standing against it. Shallow, because few Americans really allow environmental issues to dictate their votes - and politicians know...
...book is at its weakest during Lee's ill-conceived - and entirely gratuitous - quest to discover the world's greatest Chinese restaurant outside greater China. The restaurant reviews clash with the rest of the book's anthropological depth, and Lee's search is maddeningly shallow. (Just one restaurant in Paris?) By the end of this chapter, most readers won't care which restaurant won the title...
...world we inhabit has been shaped by historical change,” he wrote in an e-mail. “Without understanding the past, we can have only a superficial sense of the present and a shallow sense of the limitations and possibilities we’ll confront in the future...
...Africa could spark conflict, with Chinese and Western firms jockeying to build new infrastructure, control ports and woo political leaders. Through its training programs for African technocrats, many of whom return from China amazed, Beijing could indeed promote its authoritarian development model to a continent where democracy still has shallow roots...