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41. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, p. 13.
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42. Ravi Velloor, “Fix Chinese Issue, Indonesia Told,” Straits Times, October 10, 1998, p. 2. On the 1998 riots, see also Gregg Jones, “Fear Overwhelming Indonesia’s Chinese,” Dallas Morning News, October 4, 1998, p. 1A, and Shari, “A Tycoon under Siege,” p. 26.
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43. Margot Cohen, “Indonesia: Turning Point,” Far Eastern Economic Review, July 30, 1998, p. 12.
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44. The comparative economic statistics for Indonesia and Singapore are from The World Bank, World Development Report 2000/2001 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
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45. On Bengali economic dominance and anti-Bengali violence in Assam, India, see Donald L. Horowitz, Ethnic Groups in Conflict (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1985), pp. 112–13; Sanjoy Hazarika, “India’s Assam Cauldron Bubbles Dangerously Again,” New York Times, December 2, 1982, p. A2; and Ashutosh Varshney, “After the Assam Killings,” Christian Science Monitor, March 22, 1983, p. 27.
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46. Sowell, Migrations and Cultures, p. 28. See also Horowitz, Ethnic Groups in Conflict, pp. 155–56, 245–46, 616–17.
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47. On the “Pentagon gang,” see “Kidnap gang brings new terror to southern Philippines,” China Daily, August 23, 2001, available at http://www.chinadaily.net/news/2001–08–23/28651.html. On Burmese bear bile, see “Life on China’s Edge,” The Economist, September 14, 1996, p. 41.
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Chapter 2
1. As loosely translated and reported in “Talks with Farm Leader Break Down,” Press Association, October 2, 2000.
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2. Peter McFarren, “Bolivia Farmer Talks Break Down,” Associated Press, October 1, 2000.
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3. Paul Keller, “Natural-born Rebel with a Cause to Stir,” Financial Times, February 2, 2002, p. 2, and Clifford Krauss, “Bolivia Makes Key Concessions to Indians,” New York Times, October 7, 2000, p. A8.
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4. “Talks with Farm Leader Break Down.”
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5. For general discussions of Bolivia in English, see Maria L. Lagos, Autonomy and Power: The Dynamics of Class and Culture in Rural Bolivia (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994); Waltraud Queiser Morales, Bolivia: Land of Struggle (Boulder and Oxford: Westview Press, 1992); and Robert Barton, A Short History of the Republic of Bolivia (La Paz and Cochabamba, Bolivia: Los Amigos del Libro, 1968).
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6. Manning Nash, “The Impact of Mid-Nineteenth Century Economic Change upon the Indians of Middle America,” pp. 170–83, in Magnus Mörner, ed., Race and Class in Latin America (New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1970).
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7. Tristán Marof, “La Tragedia del Altiplano,” Editorial Claridad (Buenos Aires, 1934). On the process of “encholamiento,” see Salvador Romero Pittari, “Las Claudinas,” Editorial Karaspas (La Paz, 1988).
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8. “Bolivia: Congress Passes Controversial Land-Reform Law,” IAC (SM) Newsletter Database (TM), Latin American Database, October 18, 1996.
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9. See Seymour Martin Lipset, “Values and Entrepreneurship in the Americas,” pp. 77–140, in Revolution and Counterrevolution: Change and Persistence in Social Structures (rev. ed.) (New Brunswick and Oxford: Transaction Books, 1988), especially pp. 84–87; Frederick B. Pike, Chile and the United States, 1880–1962 (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1963), pp. 280–87; and Jaime Vicens Vives, “The Decline of Spain in the Seventeenth Century,” pp. 121–95, in Carlo M. Cipolla, ed., The Economic Decline of Empires (London: Methuen, 1970). The term “gentleman’s complex” is usually attributed to the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre.
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10. “Patience Runs Out in Bolivia,” The Economist, April 21, 2001; Clifford Krauss, “Bolivia Falls Short,” New York Times, July 12, 1998, p. 3.
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