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Has scholarship shown that persecuted religious minorities have tended to be financially successful? @DVK seems to feel really strongly about this, but hasn't yet chosen to edit the question to meet their desires. |
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Apr 8 |
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Has scholarship shown that persecuted religious minorities have tended to be financially successful? I think the claim regarding Croatians is as dubious as the claim regarding Western European Jews. Both populations had internal stratification. The Court Jew was emblematic of the misery of the mass of late feudal and early modern Jews in Germany. The mass of Croatians were involved in agricultural Feudalism under which ever house controlled the region. |
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Apr 8 |
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Has scholarship shown that persecuted religious minorities have tended to be financially successful? @DVK the question regards "minorities" in general. Perhaps a better specification for the conditional is required, "Minorities internal to the centre of a world-system," well, sure, except we've got the Irish. "Religious minorities internal to the centre of a world-system," well, except Albanians, and Croats, and Serbs, and Catholic Dissent in England. Stephenson is being extremely lazy and so is this hypothesis. All of the communities Stephenson is looking at had both a diaspora and urbanisation, with capital dependency for survival in feudalism. Lazy theorisation is lazy. |
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Apr 8 |
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Has scholarship shown that persecuted religious minorities have tended to be financially successful? @MarkC.Wallace A five society counter example overcomes a claim of "often", see NeilStephenson, "if they’re not persecuted out of existence, often" |
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Apr 8 |
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Apr 7 |
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Are there any “general” historical theories about all the “cultural revolutions” in the mid-1960s? I specifically didn't deal with the hippies as such. Not unsurprisingly they didn't have a particularly big influence compared to the anti-War movement. If you have a look at publications from the period, HS Thompson, PK Dick, Haight drug culture accounts and the like, you'll actually discover that the majority of pre 1968 hippies were working class. Also, what better grand narrative to explain a "spring time of the nations?," particularly when the question is specifically about "general" historical theories. |
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Apr 7 |
answered | Are there any “general” historical theories about all the “cultural revolutions” in the mid-1960s? |
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Apr 6 |
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Does Japan have the right to have its own army or navy? Article 5 of the San Francisco Peace Treaty and Japan's UN obligations, taiwandocuments.org/sanfrancisco01.htm |
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Apr 5 |
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Does Japan have the right to have its own army or navy? Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution is still in force. Japan is forbidden from keeping an army or resolving disputes through war. |
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Apr 5 |
answered | Does Japan have the right to have its own army or navy? |
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Apr 5 |
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Does Japan have the right to have its own army or navy? Correct English expression, spelling, while retaining the posters' expression as much as possible |
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Apr 5 |
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Which is the oldest language in the World? In a Chomskean sense, all languages. |
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Apr 5 |
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Have there been any notable people that have claimed that classism and not racism is the current cause of racial inequality? These terms "minority class" and "majority class" aren't standard or scholarly, you need to either provide a definition or clarify. The dominant social class in the United States is the capitalist class, that fraction of the "1%" that owns capital. The majority class by population in a Marxist sense is the proletariat, people who work in order to survive. The majority class by a "decile" count doesn't exist, because it arbitrarily divides the population into ten equal "deciles." |
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Apr 4 |
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Have there been any notable people that have claimed that classism and not racism is the current cause of racial inequality? Your use of class seems to be confused between instrumentalist stratification by wealth/income and Marxist class. The question needs clarification. |
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Apr 4 |
answered | Could you help me identify this photograph that was taken shortly after World War 2? |
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Apr 4 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on mathematics tag wiki excerpt |
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Apr 3 |
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How did shells, bones, and other trinkets work as currency? Yes, and specie is used in electronic goods and consumed as jewellery through loss. The embodiment of value and the use-value exist as different functions not as fundamental qualities—they exist in a social relationship. German inflation money made excellent toilet paper when it didn't embody value—it had a bartering value in itself. |
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Apr 2 |
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How did shells, bones, and other trinkets work as currency? @Russell, doesn't that depend on it you're intending to consume the bartered goods yourself? If grain is bought as a bearer of value, for example Shakespeare's grain speculation, then Shakespeare is treating the grain as a store of value (social trust), not as a useful object. The man who gets the horse rides it, the grain Shakespeare buys he sells on. The only use Shakespeare gains from the grain is its convertability into other stores of value. (Marx Capital I ch1-3.) |
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Apr 2 |
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Apr 2 |
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Were China's problems in the past two centuries due to “missing out” on the industrial age? @TomAu I'm really uncomfortable with the cultural projection there, the path dependency isn't that great (see Thompson on the Frame Knitters, or the "Machine" debate in Autonomist Marxism). One of the things Needham's question sets out to answer is if there is a critical path of cultural development that is technologically caused? The current scholarship (2009: webfirstlive.lse.ac.uk/economicHistory/Research/URKEW/… [free]) appears opposed to such a technological determinism. So I'm sticking with a "the question is wrong in seminally interesting ways." |
