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A paper titled \u201cThe Mesh of Civilizations and International Email Flows,\u201d<\/a> written by researchers at Stanford, Cornell, Yahoo! and Qatar\u2019s Computational Research Institute; has come out with rather interesting insights into who in the world is emailing whom?\u00a0 What brings senders and recipients of the email exchanges together?<\/p>\n

Apparently, the following factors:<\/p>\n

GDP, trade, language, non-Commonwealth colonial relations, and a couple of academic-sounding cultural metrics, like power-distance, individualism, masculinity and uncertainty<\/em><\/p>\n

Having a border, or a number of international flights or a serious trade relationship \u2013 also contributed to higher email traffic.\u00a0 Cultural attributes were studied using the \u201cHofstede measures\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of those anomalies could be attributed to cultural differences. The researchers analyzed culture using the \u201cHofstede measures,\u201d a set of attributes devised during a study of international IBM employees in the 1980s.\u00a0Countries with similar levels of masculinity (distinct gender roles) and uncertainty avoidance (society-wide intolerance to uncertain situations) e-mailed more, the study found. Oddly, countries with similar levels of individualism e-mailed less.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The paper also seems to be a partial validation of Samuel Huntington\u2019s \u201cClash of Civilization\u201d thesis.\u00a0 The diagram of the networks shows that there is an \u201coverlap between civilizations\u201d and some factors \u2013 common ones \u2013 contributing to associations between similar nations.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the validity of Huntington\u2019s ideas with respect to ethnic\u00a0con\ufb02ict has come into controversy, and we limit ourselves to\u00a0showing the validity \u2013 at least partial \u2013 of this division for communication networks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Civilization clusters of communication<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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