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World on Fire: How Exporting Free-Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred & Global Instability (Paperback)

by Amy Chua (Author)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd (6 Nov 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0434012203
  • ISBN-13: 978-0434012206
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 681,263 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Examining the actual impact of economic globilization in every region of the world, from Africa and Asia to Russia and Latin America, Amy Chua explains how exporting free market democracy breeds ethnic hatred and global instability as a resented ethnic minority winds up with most of the wealth.

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The New York Times bestseller. In the current affairs/globalisation tradition of Naomi Klein and Noreena Hertz; the most original contribution to the globalisation debate in years. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A timely warning about the flip-side of capitalism, 26 Jan 2003
This review is from: World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (Hardcover)
This examination of the effects of US led globalisation sheds light on an otherwise seldom discussed aspect of the phenomenon. The (frequently 'foreign') minority that becomes exceedingly rich from the spoils of the export of capitalism are inciting a backlash by 'ordinary' disgruntled people, so it is claimed, and duly, many pertinent examples are cited.
Yet, there is the feeling that although good references and suitable examples are offered, there is still somewhat of a jump between the reasons for 'Why They All Hate Us' - a chapter title, and any conclusions that are subsequently drawn.
In much the same way as Bracken's 'Fire in the East' purports the angry, vengeance-seeking rise of the 'East', just does not ring true, so too it is with this book. However, the book is interesting and not dry in an academic sense, and highlights yet more potential problems of capitalism and globalisation.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting read, 15 Oct 2003
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This review is from: World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (Hardcover)
An interesting book analysing the negative effects of globalisation and capitalism on poorer nations and their people.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but flawed, 13 Jul 2009
By Ross "fountain.blogspot.com" (Northampton, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: World on Fire: How Exporting Free-Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (Paperback)
I'll assume that most people reading this are familiar with Any Chua's basic idea of `Market Dominant minorities' and the hostility that they receive. When I first read this a few years ago I thought it was fantastic and explained so much. However rereading it recently I have doubts.

The phenomenon certainly does exist in much of the world, the overseas Chinese (of which her family is part) has achieved enormous economic dominance in much of East Asia and been the victim of mob violence repeatedly as a result over the course of many centuries. The Lebanese in West Africa, Indians in East Africa and Jews in Eastern Europe are also examples of ethnic minorities vastly out performing the indigenous population.

However there are some things that leave me unconvinced, Chua claims that these resentments are likely to be inflamed by democracy and free markets. It is certainly true that free markets exacerbate the differences but World On Fire gives examples of this kind of mob violence going back centuries, to well before the era of democracy. Some of the outbreaks of violence, such as the anti Chinese riots in Indonesia in 1998 were concurrent with democracy, but surely this is because the same forces that weakened the grip of the dictator, Suharto, weakened the states control of law and order.

Secondly she tries to fit the Market Dominant Minorities idea to too many conflicts, for example she emphasises that the Croats were much wealthier than the Serbs as a possible cause of the bloody Yugoslav wars. Yet Serbian nationalist propaganda and violence was initially directed to a much greater extent at the impoverished ethnic Albanians.

Thirdly think her concept needs refinement. Early in the book she refers to the violence against the Indians in Burma and in East Africa, interestingly though there wasn't a similar level of persecution of the whites, who were even higher on the economic ladder than the Indians. In Nigeria the Ibo suffered badly however the Yoruba, who are also quite wealthy weren't persecuted.

Thomas Sowell's concept of middleman minorities explains this better than Chua's idea. Sowell argues that the two factors which inflame particularly inflame resentment are when minorities act as economic middlemen and when they were once very poor but overtake the majority population economically. This refinement explains the outbursts of violence much better than Chua's idea in my opinion.

Lastly while the end notes demonstrate that she has been very broadminded and undogmatic about who she has used for the source material I do wonder whether there are quality control issues, particularly in the journalistic sources.
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