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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
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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.