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 ideology of a dominant group or interest."

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Appiah argues that thinking of a civilization as coherent ignores the fact that different values and beliefs may be actually opposed to each other, and that sometimes the dominant group or interest imposes its ideology as the worldview of the whole tribe.

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