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by Amy Chua


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  35. Naomi Klein, No Logo (New York: Picador, USA, 1999), pp. 327–28.

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  36. As reported in Peter Waldman and Jay Solomon, “As Good Times Roll, Indonesia’s Chinese Fear for Their Future,” Wall Street Journal, June 5, 1997, p. A18.

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  37. See Robert G. Gregory, The Rise and Fall of Philanthropy in East Africa (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1992), pp. 43–65, especially pp. 55 and 205, and “Building Capacity,” Business in Africa Online, available at http://www.businessinafrica.co.za/kenar.html.

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  38. See Peter Baker, “An Unlikely Savior on the Tundra,” Washington Post, March 2, 2001, p. A1, and John Lloyd, “A miracle worker,” Financial Times, January 6, 2001, p. 1.

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  39. As reported in Baker, “An Unlikely Savior on the Tundra,” p. A1.

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  40. See Anthony DePalma, “In Mexico City, A State-of-the-Art Children’s Museum,” New York Times, November 18, 1993, p. C4, and Christine MacDonald, “Hands-On Museum Catches Kids’ Fancy,” Dallas Morning News, December 21, 1993, p. C5. See also the Coca-Cola and Nike home websites.

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  41. “United by rugby?” The Economist, October 30, 1999.

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  42. Christopher Clarey, “This Is No Picnic: In Southeast Asia, Respect Rides on a Shuttlecock,” New York Times, June 25, 1996, p. B14.

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  43. See World Huaren Federation, “Contributions and Achievements: Susi Susanti & Alan Budi Kusuma,” available at http://www.huaren.org/contributions/.

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  44. Ian Thomsen, “Rugby: South Africa Ascends World Stage,” New York Times, May 26, 1995, p. B9.

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  45. Jared Diamond, “Why We Must Feed the Hands That Could Bite Us,” Washington Post, January 13, 2002, p. B1.

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  46. Alan Friedman, “World Bank Presses U.S. to Increase Aid,” International Herald Tribune, January 31, 2002, p. 1, and John Cassidy, “Helping Hands,” The New Yorker, March 18, 2002, pp. 60, 66.

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  47. Gregory Clark, “More aid, more regrets later,” Japan Times, January 22, 2002.

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  48. Daniel Pipes, “God and Mammon: Does Poverty Cause Militant Islam?” National Interest, Winter 2001/2002, p. 14.

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  49. Cassidy, “Helping Hands,” p. 64. Cassidy also notes that in absolute dollar terms, the U.S. spends more on aid than any other country apart from Japan.

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  Index

  *The following items may be used as a guide to search for information in this eBook.

  Abramovich, Roman

  Affirmative action programs

  Africa

  backlash against democracy in Sierra Leone

  backlash against markets in Zimbabwe

  colonialism and market-dominant minorities

  departure of Portuguese from Angola

  genocide in Rwanda

  globalization and

  Indians in East Africa

  Kenya

  Lebanese in West Africa

  market-dominant whites in Southern Africa

  Nigeria

  reaction to World Trade Center attack

  successful indigenous minorities

  Agency for International Development (AID)

  Albanians

  Algeria

  American Dream

  Americans as global market-dominant minority. See also United States

  anti-Americanism in developing world

  anti-market backlash against Western investors

  European response to

  friendly anti-Americanism

  global backlash against

  World Trade Center attack

  Amerindian majorities. See also Latin America

  Angola

  Anti-Americanism. See also Americans as global market-dominant minority

  countering

  in developing world

  extent of

  friendly

  global

  Anti-Semitism. See also Holocaust; Jews

  Arab-Israeli conflict. See also Middle Eastern world

  Arabs. See Middle Eastern world

  Argentina

  Assimilation. See also Intermarriage

  countries without market-dominant minorities

  forced, of Chinese in Thailand

  Austerity measures

  Australia

  Aven, Pyotr

  Aymara

  Backlash against democracy

  Chinese-friendly dictatorships in Indonesia and the Philippines

  crony capitalism and

  crony capitalism in Kenya

  countering

  political rule by market-dominant minorities

  in Sierra Leone

  Backlash against market-dominant minorities. See also Ethnic violence

  against Americans

  expulsions and genocide as

  forced assimilation in Thailand

  genocide in former Yugoslavia

  genocide in Rwanda

  induced emigration and expulsions

  Backlash against market

  anti-Semitism and nationalization in democratic Russia

  backlash against Western foreign investors

  ethnic confiscation in post-Suharto Indonesia

  history of nationalization in developing world

  in Venezuela

  in Zimbabwe

  Baganda

  Bahrain

  Bamiléké

  Ba’athists

  Bean curd business

  Belgians

  Belgium

  Benin

  Berezovsky, Boris

  bin Laden, Osama. See also World Trade Center attack

  Black markets

  Blacks

  in Brazil

  in post–Civil War U.S. South

  in South Africa (see also Africa)

  in U.S. inner cities

  U.S. racism and

  Blair, Tony

  Bolivia

  Bosnia

  Botswana

  Brazil

  affirmative action programs

  American culture and

  ethnic consciousness in

  Jews in

  Portuguese in

  reaction in, to World Trade Center attack

  white dominance in

  British. See also England

  in Kenya

  in Southern Africa

  in war on Iraq

  Bremer, L. Paul, III

  Burma

  backlash against Western investors in

  Chinese takeover of

  ethnic resentment against Chinese in

  ethnic violence against Indians in

  nationalizations in

  Burundi

  Bush, George W.

  Cambodia

  Cameroon

  Canada

  Capital

  backlash against Western investors

  Chinese

  corporate equity programs

  human

  Jewish, in Russia

  lending associations

  movement of, toward United States

  Capitalism. See also Crony capitalism; Free market democracy; Markets

  globalization and

  laissez-faire

  softening, with redistribution

  Castas

  Chagga

  Chavez, Hugo

  Chicken feed business

  Child labor

  Chile

  China

  absence of market-dominant minorities in

  American culture and

  Communism in

  marketizing in, without democratizing

  position on war in Iraq

  Chinese

  forced as
similation of, in Thailand

  in Philippines (see also Philippines)

  in Southeast Asia (see Southeast Asia)

  Christians

  Colombia

  Colonialism

  in Afric

  in Latin America

  market-dominant minorities and

  Communism

  Confiscation. See Backlash against markets

  Corporations

  American market dominance and

  attempts by United Nations to regulate

  critics of

  equity programs

  objectionable practices

  philanthropy

  Côte d’Ivoire

  Croats

  Crony capitalism. See also Backlash against

  democracy

  Crown jewels

  Cuba

  Cultural dominance

  Culture, market success and

  Demagogues. See also Ethnonationalism

  Democracy

  backlash against (see Backlash against democracy)

  concepts of

  defined

  free market(see also Free market democracy)

  globalization and

  markets vs.

  as more than majority rule

  Diamond market

  Disenfranchisement. See also Universal suffrage

  of blacks in post–Civil War U.S. South

  of poor in the West

  Drug traffic

  Dutch

  East Africa. See also Kenya

  Eastern Europe. See also Russia, post-Communist; Yugoslavia, former

  Economic impact of globalization. See also Market-dominant minorities

  Ecuador

  Education

  Egypt

  Elections. See Universal suffrage

  Emigration. See also Backlash against market-dominant minorities

  England. See also British

  Enron

  Eritreans

  Ethiopia

  Ethnic confiscations. See Backlash against markets

  Ethnicity

  defined

  global

  indigenous majorities and

  in Latin America

  pigmentocracy and

  Ethnic organizations

  Ethnic resentment. See also Ethnic violence; Ethnonationalism

  in Africa

  against Americans (see Anti-Americanism)

  in Bolivia

  in Latin America

  in Philippines

  in Russia against Jews

  in Southeast Asia against Chinese

  Ethnic violence. See also Backlash against market-dominated minorities; Ethnonationalism

  against Americans

  in Burma against Indians

  in Indonesia against Chinese

  market-dominant minorities and global

  murder of author’s aunt in Philippines

  in Rwanda

  in Weimar Germany against Jews

  in former Yugoslavia

  Ethnonationalism

  Arab

  democracy and

  market-dominant minorities as leaders against

  in Nazi Germany

  in the West (see also Americans as global market-dominant minority; Free market democracy, future of; Free market democracy, Western; Middle Eastern world)

  in United States

  in former Yugoslavia

  Europeans

  as colonizers in Africa

  dominant minorities in Latin America descended from

  response of, to American market dominance

  Ewe

  Expulsions. See also Backlash against market-dominant minorities

  Fiji

  Ford Foundation

  Foreign aid, U.S.

  Foreign policy, U.S.

  France

  Free market democracy. See also Democracy; Markets

  future of (see also Free market democracy, future of)

  globalization and (see also globalization)

  market-dominant minorities and (see also Market-dominant minorities)

  in Middle Eastern world

  tension inherent in

  Western (see Free market democracy, Western)

  Free market democracy, future of

  addressing the causes of market dominance

  democracy as more than majority rule

  democracy vs. markets

  market-dominant minorities and democracy

  market-dominant minorities as leaders against ethnonationalism

  in Middle Eastern world

  objectionable practices of market-dominant minorities

  stakeholding and spreading the benefits of markets

  voluntary generosity by market-dominant minorities

  Free market democracy, Western

  absence of market-dominant ethnic minorities in

  American racism

  American South and disenfranchisement of blacks

  “browning of America”

  disenfranchisement of poor in

  idiosyncracy of American Dream

  inherent tension between markets and democracy

  market-dominant minorities in U.S. inner cities

  softening of capitalism and rise of welfare state

  Weimar Germany and Nazi Holocaust

  French Huguenots

  Friedman, Mikhail

  Friendly anti-Americanism

  Fundamentalism

  Future. See Free market democracy, future of

  Gambia, The

  Gates, Bill

  GATT

  Gems

  Generosity by market-dominant minorities

  Genocide. See also Backlash against market-dominant minorities; Ethnic violence

  Germans

  Germany

  Ghana

  Globalization

  Africa and

  critics of

  definition of markets, democracy, and ethnicity (see also Democracy; Ethnicity; Markets)

  economic impact of

  and ethnic resentment in Latin America (see also Ethnic resentment)

  ethnic violence and (see also Ethnic violence)

  ethnonationalism and the West (see also Americans as global market-dominant minority; Free market democracy, future of; Free market democracy, Western; Middle Eastern world)

  explosion of Chinese wealth and

  as free market democracy (see also Free market democracy)

  Latin America vs. Southeast Asia

  market-dominant minorities and (see also Market-dominant minorities)

  murder of author’s aunt and

  political consequences of (see also Assimilation; Backlash against democracy; Backlash against market-dominant minorities; Backlash against markets)

  role of United States in

  structure of this book about

  thesis of this book about

  Global market-dominant minority. See Americans as global market-dominant minority

  Great Britain. See England; British

  Guatemala

  Guinea

  Gulf States. See also Middle Eastern world

  Gusinsky, Vladimir

  Haiti

  Hazardous conditions, 280–81

  Holocaust, 201–6, 221

  Honduras, 281

  Hong Kong, 178

  Human capital, 29, 99, 119, 221–22, 264–67

  Human rights, 14, 170, 259

  Humiliation, 9–10, 256–58

  Hungarians, 10

  Hungary

  Hussein, Saddam

  Hutus

  Hypocrisy

  Ibo

  Identity, ethnic. See also Ethnicity

  Immigrant entrepreneurs

  in Africa

  in Latin America

  Income disparity. See Wealth disparities

  India

  Indians

  in Burma

  in East Africa

  in Fiji

  Indigenous majorities. See also Backlash against market-domi
nant minorities; Ethnonationalism

  Amerindian, in Latin America

  Arab, as self-perceived

  benefits of globalization for

  ethnic identity and

  Indonesian

  market-dominant minorities vs.

  Indigenous minorities in Africa, successful

  Indios. See Amerindians

  Indonesia

  backlash against markets in

  bean curd business in

  benefits of globalization

  Chinese-friendly dictatorship of Suharto in

  ethnic violence against Chinese in

  Malaysia vs.

  reaction to World Trade Center attack in

  Singapore vs.

  Information technology

  Inner cities, market-dominant minorities in U.S.

  Insularity

  Intermarriage

  ethnic identity and

  in Israel

  in Latin America

  in South Africa

  in Thailand

  International Monetary Fund (IMF)

  Investors, anti-market backlash against Western. See also Corporations

  Iran

  Iraq

  ethnic and religious divisions

  introducing Western-style democracy in

  postwar occupation of

  U. S.-led war on

  Israel

  Israeli Jews. See also Middle Eastern world

  Arab ethnonationalism against

  Ashkenazi Jews as market-dominant minority

  as market-dominant minority in Middle East

  reasons for economic dominance of

  Japan

  Java. See also Indonesia

  Jews

  Holocaust and

  Israeli (see Israeli Jews)

  in Latin America

  in Russia (see Russia, post-Communist)

  in U.S. inner cities

  Jordan

  Kalenjin

  Kazakhstan

  Kenya

  bombing of U.S. embassy in

  British and Kikuyus in

  crony capitalism in

  Indians in

  Kenyatta, Jomo

  Khodorkovsky, Mikhail

  Kidnapping

  Kikuyus

  Korea

  Koreans in U.S. inner cities

  Kuok, Robert

  Kurds

  Kuwait

  Laissez-faire capitalism

  Laos

  Latifundia

  Latin America

  backlash against markets in Venezuela

  backlash against Western investors

  Bolivia and countries with Amerindian majorities

  Brazil

  countries without market-dominant minorities

  ethnic conflict in

  ethnicity in

  globalization and ethnic resentment

  human capital in

  immigrant entrepreneurs and

  latifundia and European-descended minority dominance

  Mexico

  minority rule in

  nationalizations in

  pigmentocracy in

  Southeast Asia vs.

 

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