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For an academic answer to this question, kindly see evolutionary psychologist, Professor Kevin MacDonald's overview of this issue http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/WesternOrigins.htm
In summary, he argues that Western cultures have a unique cultural profile compared to other traditional civilizations:
1. The Catholic Church and Christianity.
2. A tendency toward monogamy.
3. A tendency toward simple family structure based on the nuclear family.
4. A greater tendency for marriage to be companionate and based on mutual affection of the partners.
5. A de-emphasis on extended kinship relationships and its correlative, a relative lack of ethnocentrism.
6. A tendency toward individualism and all of its implications: individual rights against the state, representative government, moral universalism and science
These stand in stark contrast to the Near East (Jews and Muslims), Far East (Confucians) and sub-Sahara Africa, of course.
Dear Mr. Ben Nimmon, Islam is not Ottoman; it pre-dates the Ottoman Empire by hundreds of years. And Turkey is definitely European; only Sarkozy and his counterparts in Vienna deny this. Go to Istanbul, Ephesus, Troy and see the truth.
For an academic answer to this question, kindly see evolutionary psychologist, Professor Kevin MacDonald's overview of this issue http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/WesternOrigins.htm
In summary, he argues that Western cultures have a unique cultural profile compared to other traditional civilizations:
1. The Catholic Church and Christianity.
2. A tendency toward monogamy.
3. A tendency toward simple family structure based on the nuclear family.
4. A greater tendency for marriage to be companionate and based on mutual affection of the partners.
5. A de-emphasis on extended kinship relationships and its correlative, a relative lack of ethnocentrism.
6. A tendency toward individualism and all of its implications: individual rights against the state, representative government, moral universalism and science
These stand in stark contrast to the Near East (Jews and Muslims), Far East (Confucians) and sub-Sahara Africa, of course.
Dear Mr. Ben Nimmon, Islam is not Ottoman; it pre-dates the Ottoman Empire by hundreds of years. And Turkey is definitely European; only Sarkozy and his counterparts in Vienna deny this. Go to Istanbul, Ephesus, Troy and see the truth.
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