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World on Fire
Amy Chua · 初版 2003 年
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为什么值得读
- 深刻揭示商业优势少数族裔被敌视的普遍规律
- 反思不加约束的民主推广对民族冲突的加剧
- 提供了理解全球化阴暗面与贫富撕裂的清醒视角
《纽约时报》畅销书。承袭 Naomi Klein 与 Noreena Hertz 的时事/全球化传统；多年来全球化大讨论中最具原创性的贡献。Amy Chua 这本引人注目且发人深省的著作探讨了后冷战时期全球化世界的种种紧张关系。随着全球市场的开放，种族冲突加剧，发展中国家的民主进程可能变得丑陋而暴力。Chua 指出，自由市场如何将不成比例的、往往是惊人的财富集中在备受怨恨的少数族裔——即“市场主导型少数族裔”——手中。在这个动荡的组合中引入民主，可能
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……巴尔干半岛的穆斯林土耳其人最终填补了这些社会经济生态位。在埃尔多安上台前，土耳其看起来很快就要比希腊更富有了。蔡美儿（Amy Chua）写过一本关于经商少数族裔的好书，《World On Fire》。
…Balkans of Muslims Turks eventually filled those socioeconomic niches. Until Erdogan it looked like Turney would be richer than Greece pretty soon. Any Chua wrote a great book on merchant minorites, World On Fire.
……1870 年之前的德国，但政客们为了争权夺利，几十年来一直甩锅给边缘群体，硬生生把反犹主义变成了一种可怕的顽疾。民主无一例外会让族群冲突恶化。去读读蔡美儿的《World on Fire》吧。换句话说：你能指得出任何一个既牛逼、又由少数统治精英治理的模范社会吗？杰克逊式民主时代之前的美国（1620年代到1820年代）。维多利亚时期的……
…Germany before 1870, but decades of politicians vying for power by blaming an outcast group turned anti-semitism into a terrible disease. Democracy universally makes ethnic conflict worse. Read Amy Chua World on Fire. To put it another way: can you point to any model societies that are really great and are governed by a small ruling elite? America before the era of Jacksonian democracy ( 1620 to 1820's). Victorian…
……不相信他们更聪明，也不相信这是他们凭本事赚来的，那你剩下的唯一解释就是他们诡计多端，钱来路不正。如果你去读蔡美儿的《World on Fire》，就会发现这种模式屡试不爽。某个特定族群（犹太人、华人等等）无论走到哪里都混得更好。但随后就会因为表现太抢眼而被当地人妖魔化，接着就是大屠杀……
…don't believe they are smarter and don't believe they have earned it, then the explanation you are left with is that they are tricky and their gains were ill-begotten. And if you read Amy Chua's book World on Fire you'll see this pattern over and over again. A certain ethnic group (Jews, Chinese, etc) does better everywhere they go. But then get demonized by the local population for their overachievement, and pogroms…
加布里埃尔·科尔科的《The Triumph of Conservatism》——理解企业农奴制崛起的必读书；斯蒂芬·茨威格的《The World of Yesterday》——会让你对君主制时代产生乡愁；蔡美儿的《World on Fire》——我读过的理解全球化最好的单本书，简直是托马斯·弗里德曼的解毒剂；默里·罗斯巴德的《America's Great Depression》——跟你平时听到的版本大相径庭……
The Triumph of Conservatism by Gabriel Kolko - the book for understanding the rise of corporate serfdom The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig - will make you nostalgic for the days of monarchy World on Fire by Amy Chua - the single best book for understanding globalization that I have read. The antidote to Tom Friedman. America's Great Depression by Murray Rothbard - very different from the story you get…
……剥夺上层阶级的财富（比如搞社会主义、革命等等）——无论哪种方式，一旦阶级鸿沟根深蒂固、社会凝聚力崩溃，场面都会变得一团糟。有一本书把这点讲得很透，就是《World on Fire》：https://www.amazon.ca/World-Fire-Exporting-Democracy-Instabi...
…away richness from the upper class (e.g. socialism, revolution, etc.) -- either way it is a mess once the divide becomes entrenched and social cohesion breaks down. One book that covers this well is World on Fire: https://www.amazon.ca/World-Fire-Exporting-Democracy-Instabi...
……在南方也是如此。奥斯曼帝国的亚美尼亚人，东南亚的华人，欧洲各地的犹太人，他们遭受的敌意大得多，还会遭遇大屠杀，就因为他们是“无根的国际主义者”。想了解更多可以看看蔡美儿的《World On Fire》。东南亚的华人也同样面临着《锡安长老会纪要》那种级别的阴谋论和歇斯底里。当然犹太人历史上有些特有的东西，比如血祭诽谤……
…in the South. Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Chinese in Southeast Asia, Jews all over Europe, they get much more hostility, and pogroms because they're rootless cosmopolitans. For much more check out World On Fire, Amy Chua. The Chinese in Southeast Asia get the same Elders of Zion level conspiracy theorising and craziness. There are elements that are distinct to the history of the Jews, like the blood libel,…