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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-dominant 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