The only places where a Western culture has successfully transplanted itself are those where great population pressure and genocidal methods were used to extirpate the indigenous peoples. This is what happened in the United States.First of all, I don't accept that the Indians were victims of "genocide" . There was no "planned or systemic extermination" of the Indians. Western culture and the diseases that came with it did more to eliminate the Indians than anything that was planned or systemic.
Secondly, does Cohen believe non-western cultures supplant the native cultures entirely peacefully? How did peoples from the Arabian peninsula (Arabs) come to dominate such large tracts of land in North Africa and West Asia? Does he think they were invited in?
He didn't need to throw in that bit about western culture and the United States. It only spoiled his article.
