According to Appiah, "To think of a civilization as coherent is to miss the fact that these different values and beliefs are not merely different but actually opposed. Worse, what had been presented as the coherent, unified worldview of a tribal people often turned out, on later inspection, to be merely the __________ of a dominant group or interest."

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Appiah suggests that the presentation of a unified worldview of a tribal people is often an ideology created by a dominant group or interest. Thus, the missing word in the sentence is "ideology."

According to Appiah, "To Think of a Civilization as Coherent