Majorities are made, not born. This book argues that there are no pure majorities in the Asia-Pacific region,
broadly defined, nor in the West. Numerically, ethnically, politically, and culturally, societies make and mark
their majorities under specific historical, political, and social circumstances. This position challenges Samuel
Huntington's influential thesis that civilizations are composed of more or less homogeneous cultures, suggesting
instead that culture is as malleable as the politics that informs it.