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“When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They see only the openness that has produced Britney Spears and Janet Jackson. They do not see, and do not want to see, the openness - the freedom of thought and inquiry - that has made us powerful, the openness that has produced Bill Gates and Sally Ride. They deliberately define it all as decadence. Because if openness, women's empowerment, and freedom of thought and inquiry are the real sources of the West's economic strength, then the Arab-Muslim world would have to change. And the fundamentalists and extremists do not want to change.”

Freedom Openness Terrorists Radicals

Book:The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Source: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

“Culture is nested in context, not genes.”

Humility Openness Adaptability

Book:The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Source: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

“A Nobel Prize winner was asked how he became a scientist. He said that every day after school, his mother would ask him not what he learned but whether he asked a good question today. That, he said, was how he became a scientist.”

Curiosity Openness Parenthood Questioning

Book:The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Source: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

“Virulence is the sound of a self-selecting community talking to itself and positively reinforcing itself with no obligation to answer to anyone or look anyone in the eye.”

Prejudice Ideology Openness Extremism Assumptions

Book:The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Source: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century