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World civilizations and projections (Part 3: Language)

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An essential aspect that we are missing to talk about and that also characterizes a civilization is the language. The important point is that language is the way of people to communicate and to understand to each other, and the religion is the inner believe, customs and way of living of people. Also, if we analyze a group of people through a timeline, there are features in this group of people that evolve faster than others, there are also features that are just ephemeral. For example, the economic wealth is not something that defines a civilization in a proper way. Throughout the years we have had different empires who have experienced periods of high and low wealth. For instance, we cannot compare the chinese economy 100 years ago with the current economic "boom" they are living right now. Hence, economic wealth is a volatile or unstable feature that seems to be part of other geopolitical aspects such as the economic model or the way of government. In the same way, features

World civilizations and projections (Part 2: Religion)

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Figure 1: Map shared by former President of Russia, Dmitri Medvédev in his official telegram channel. The map shows a prediction by Medvédev towards the end of the Special Military Operation (SMO): A split Ukraine where there is a Western non-Orthodox side absorbed by Poland, a residual central Ukraine with Kiev at the center, and an oriental side with Orthodox nature now part of Russia. In this post I continue the last discussion about the different world civilizations. Before we focused in demography, but civilizations as you would notice, are highly represented by two major ingredients: The religion and the language. Perhaps, religion might be, the most important feature of what defines a world civilization. Already in 1996, S. Huntington wrote in the first pages of his famous book The clash of civilizations ,  that using old paradigms one could expect that Russia was going to eventually be attacked by Ukraine, because of a possible threat and that Ukraine was going to be conquered

World civilizations and projections (Part 1: Demography)

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Throughout the history, the human has looked for a way to classify differnet things with respect to their properties. In particular, to the groups of people, going from villages and communities up to cities and countries. However, in the current and last-century geopolitical situations, divide populations into countries could give rise to limitations, or at least, it may not ease the interpretation of why different nations have interacted in the way that the history has shown to us. Classifying people into nations or countries has based its due by giving a name to groups of people based on territory divisions. Nevertheless, when addressing the analysis it turns out to be useful to recognize that different nations can be classified into sets on larger scales, and such groups are defined by distinct characteristics that represent people. For example, the language, the religion, the race, the common history, etc. The previous characteristics are inherent traces that nations have acquired