Making majorities
Subtitle: constituting the nation in Japan, Korea, China, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the United States
By: edited by Dru C. Gladney.
Contributors: Gladney, Dru C.
Series: East-West Center series on contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific; Contemporary issues in Asia and the Pacific.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Stanford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Ethnicity -- Case studies; Majorities -- Case studies; Minorities -- Case studies
Description: Majorities are made, not born. This book argues that there are no pure majorities in the Asia-Pacific region, broadly defined, nor in the West. Numerically, ethnically, politically, and culturally, societies make and mark their majorities under specific historical, political, and social circumstances.

This position challenges Samuel Huntington's influential thesis that civilizations are composed of more or less homogeneous cultures, suggesting instead that culture is as malleable as the politics that informs it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-340) and index.
Based on a conference at the East-West Center"--Pref.