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The State, Development and Identity in Multi-Ethnic Societies - Ethnicity, Equity and the Nation (Paperback)
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The State, Development and Identity in Multi-Ethnic Societies - Ethnicity, Equity and the Nation (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Malaysian Studies Series
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The controversial work of Amy Chua argues that, as rapid
modernization, industrialization, technological change and
globalization bring about fundamental changes in national, ethnic
and class identities, especially in developing countries, there is
a danger that the laissez-faire capitalist system will cause
serious racial conflagration, especially in societies where there
is ethnic minority market dominance, combined with
ethno-nationalist-type politicians who mobilize support from ethnic
majority communities by drawing attention to inequalities in wealth
distribution. This controversial work goes on to argue for an
authoritarian political system, with curbs against the corporate
expansion of enterprises owned by ethnic minorities, until parity
in equity ownership among all communities is achieved. This book
tests the assumptions behind these arguments, discussing ethnic
communities, identity, economy, society and state, and the links
between them, in a range of countries in East Asia, Southeast Asia,
and the Pacific, and diaspora communities of Asian peoples in the
West. It demonstrates that identity transformation occurs as
generations of minority communities succeed each other, that old
discourses of fixed origins which are assumed to bind ethnic
communities into cohesive wholes do not apply, that there are very
extensive inter-linkages in the daily activities of people of
different ethnic and religious backgrounds, that affirmative
action-type policies along racial lines can undermine overall
societal cohesion, and that there is no case for limiting democracy
until economic equity is achieved. This is a rich, important book,
with huge implications for economic development and for states
throughout the world as multi-ethnic societies world-wide become
more extensive and more complicated.
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