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Thread ID: 9297 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-08-26
2003-08-26 07:20 | User Profile
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Review of World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability by Amy Chua, 2003.
Chua's new book is an excellent overview of just how common it is for a country to be economically dominated by a racial minority. She takes us into the workings of many countries, providing numbers, how the races interact, and surprisingly she has provided a substantial amount of data that supports alternative theories from her own.
She doesn't deal directly with why a minority can dominate the majority, but a careful reading of this book supports two alternative hypotheses. First, it supports the work by Kevin MacDonald on how group evolutionary strategies, along with differences in innate levels of ethnocentrism, can lead to racial boundary maintenance and racial conflict. Second, it supports Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen's observations that it is the level of average intelligence that determines what groups will prosper and which ones will be subordinated (IQ and the Wealth of Nations, 2002 - see [url=http://www.rlynn.247e.info/pages/article_intelligence/t4.htm]http://www.rlynn.247e.info/pages/article_i...lligence/t4.htm[/url] for a listing of an estimated average intelligences in 189 nations).
Her book is not very organized, but her thoughts and opinions do jump out at the reader who is not willing to swallow her simplistic assumptions. Her book is useful primarily for the support it lends to group evolutionary strategies. In addition, it reinforces the contention of evolutionists that when it comes to human behavior, social scientists and political scientists are still bogged down in just-so stories. They have no empirical program for analyzing human behavior that is falsifiable and therefore scientific.
This review, or perhaps more correctly critique, of Chua's more egregious biases and distortions, will follow the book page by page to keep things simple. Even though I do not agree with her reasoning, aside from perhaps agreeing that the West should not meddle in other nation's concerns, her observations provide a much-needed look at how racial conflict is endemic around the world.
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