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there currently is one single civilization earth. All the cultural diffences between countries are far less than it would take to define different civilizations

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> there currently is one single civilization earth. All the cultural diffences between countries are far less than it would take to define different civilizations

What is your definition of a civilization then? As far as i know there is no "global" culture, you can live in many different places and have a totally different everyday life experience.

Science and technology (and maybe trade?) are our global culture.

I just said there is no such thing as a global culture. It's not because you have Starbucks in every big city that the experience of living in different places is the same.

There are local peculiarities, but we share a common core built around science an technology. You can learn to drive a car anywhere on earth. You'll learn the same maths, physics, chemistry and biology. You can use phones everywhere. That is culture, globally shared.

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