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From: Lesley Groff 
Sent: 5/4/2016 6:06:21 PM 
To: Jefffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Fwd: Larry Summers - Foreign Affairs - The Fusion of Civilizations 
Importance: High 
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From: Kelly Friendly 
Subject: Larry Summers - Foreign Affairs - The Fusion of Civilizations 
Date: May 4, 2016 at 2:05:48 PM EDT 
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The Fusion of Civilizations 
The Case for Global Optimism 
Foreign Affairs 
May/June 2016 issue 
By Kishore Mahbubani and Lawrence H. Summers 
The mood of much of the world is grim these days. Turmoil in the Middle 
East, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of refugees; 
random terrorist attacks across the globe; geopolitical tensions in eastern 
Europe and Asia; the end of the commodity supercycle; slowing growth in 
China; and economic stagnation in many countries-all have combined to 
feed a deep pessimism about the present and, worse, the future. 
Historians looking back on this age from the vantage point of later 
generations, however, are likely to be puzzled by the widespread 
contemporary feelings of gloom and doom. By most objective measures of 
human well-being, the past three decades have been the best in history. 
More and more people in more and more places are enjoying better lives 
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than ever before. Nor is this an accident-because despite Samuel 
Huntington's foreboding, what has occurred over recent generations is not a 
clash of civilizations but a fusion of civilizations. 
To put it simply, the great world civilizations, which used to have detached 
and separate identities, now have increasingly overlapping areas of 
commonality. Most people around the world now have the same aspirations 
as the Western middle classes: they want their children to get good 
educations, land good jobs, and live happy, productive lives as members of 
stable, peaceful communities. Instead of feeling depressed, the West should 
be celebrating its phenomenal success at injecti

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