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minority rule in
Tutsi dominance in
Saudi Arabia
Scapegoating
September 11, 2001. See World Trade Center attack
Serbians
Shia Muslims
Sierra Leone
backlash against democracy in
Lebanese in
Singapore
Slim, Carlos
SLORC
Slovenes
Socialism. See Communism
South Africa
Southeast Asia. See also Philippines
benefits of globalization in
Chinese-friendly dictatorships in Indonesia and the Philippines
Chinese takeover of Burma
ethnic confiscations in Indonesia
ethnic resentment against Chinese
ethnic violence in Burma against Indians
ethnic violence in Indonesia against Chinese
forced assimilation of Chinese in Thailand
globalization and explosion of Chinese wealth
history of Chinese market dominance
indigenous bean curd business vs. Chinese chicken feed business
Latin America vs.
objectionable practices in
Singapore vs. Indonesia
Southern Africa
Soviet Union. See Russia, post-Communist
Spanish Conquest
Sports
Sri Lanka
Stakeholding
Stevens, Siaka
Sudan
Suffrage. See Universal suffrage
Suharto regime
Sunni Muslims
Susu
Sweden
Symbols
Syria
Taiwan
Tamils
Tanzania
Tax-and-transfer programs
Teak
Thailand
Titling programs
Tofu business
Togo
Trade liberalization
Tunisia
Turkey
Tutsis
Uganda
United Kingdom. See England; British
United Nations
United States. See also Americans as global market-dominant minority
absence of market-dominant minorities in
affirmative action in
American Dream
disenfranchisement of blacks in southern
foreign aid
free market democracy in (see Free market democracy, Western)
Iraq
Koreans in inner cities
Microsoft and
Middle Eastern policy
philanthropy
racism in
role of, in globalization
whites as future minority in
World Trade Center attack (see World Trade Center attack)
Universal suffrage. See also Disenfranchisement
in Bolivia
free market democracy and
in Weimar Germany
in Western world
Upward mobility
Uruguay
Vajiravudh, King
Venezuela
Vietnam
Violence. See Backlash against market-dominant minorities; Ethnic violence
Wealth disparities. See also Poverty
awareness of
globalization and
in United States
in Western world
in Yugoslavia
Weimar Germany, Holocaust in
Welfare state
West Africa
Western Europe
Western world. See Free market democracy, Western
Whites
in Latin America (see Latin America)
in Southern Africa
in United States
World Bank
World Trade Center attack
as anti-Americanism
developing world reaction to
Western world reaction to
World Trade Organization
Yeltsin, Boris
Youth, Middle Eastern
Yugoslavia, former
Zambia
Zimbabwe
backlash against markets in
ethnic identity in
whites in
AMY CHUA
WORLD ON FIRE
Amy Chua is a professor at Yale Law School. She lectures frequently on the effects of globalization to government, business, and academic groups around the world. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
Acclaim for Amy Chua’s
WORLD ON FIRE
This hard-hitting book should be read by everyone who still imagines that free markets can solve all the world’s ills. Chua’s work is provocative, creative, and important; it turns conventional wisdom on its head, and no one interested in globalization can afford to ignore it.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Provocative. . . . Shocking. . . . It should make Americans think twice about exporting their political culture wholesale without a thought of who dislikes whom.”
—The Seattle Times
[World on Fire] makes for compelling reading and sounds a sobering warning that should be heeded by all supporters and critics of globalization.”
—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A profound book, written in plain English, and challenging the very foundations of some glib—and dangerous—assumptions behind American foreign policy. This book should be read in the highest circles of decision-making, as well as by all those who like to consider themselves thinking people.
—Thomas Sowell, Hoover Institution, and author of
Ethnic America, Race and Culture, and Migrations and Cultures
A brilliant, groundbreaking