Every time Clash of Civilizations comes up, I have to point out the shoddiness of Huntington& #39;s research. Feel free to pile on.

1. European Turkey isn& #39;t Orthodox.
2. Bosnia should be part Western.
3. Kazakhstan isn& #39;t Orthodox.
4. Kaliningrad isn& #39;t Western; it& #39;s part of Russia.

5. Either Tibet should be Sinic or Xinjiang Muslim.
6. If Kenya& #39;s Muslim minority should be green, so should Ethiopia& #39;s.
7. Papua New Guinea is not Western.
8. Sierra Leone is mostly Muslim.
9. Guinea-Bissau is half Muslim.

All this even if we accept Huntington on his own terms.

There& #39;s a moral here for anyone coding data: come up with clear rules and stick by them. If applying these rules forces you to code something in a nonsensical way, revise the rules and apply them to all casss. Don& #39;t make exceptions. Or rely on gut feelings. Neither is replicable.

10. Caught another mistake thanks to @ProfPaulPoast& #39;s excellent thread on teaching CoC: Eritrea is not Muslim. Its population is evenly split between Christians and Muslims, and its ruling party is overtly secular. That removes Eritrea/Ethiopia as an intercivilizational conflict.