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World on Fire

World on Fire. Chapter Nine: The Underside of Western Free Market Democracy. What type of capitalism is being promoted outside of the West today ?. Laissez-faire. Which country helped to shape that universal policy for underdevelopment ?. The United States.

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World on Fire

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  1. World on Fire Chapter Nine: The Underside of Western Free Market Democracy

  2. What type of capitalism is being promoted outside of the West today? Laissez-faire

  3. Which country helped to shape that universal policy for underdevelopment? The United States

  4. Which classes of Americans are capitalism’s biggest fans? The poor and lower- middle class

  5. What is the reason why American’s less well off love billionaires and spurn welfare mother? The American Dream

  6. What is the name is the system in which America has created in which “anyone with talent and energy has access to the financial resources needed for success”? Upward mobility

  7. What has helped to neutralize the conflict between in the US between markets and democracy? Racism

  8. What was the name of the CIO’s mass unionization campaign in the Southern States called? “Operation Dixie”

  9. What was the basic technique for establishing a white minority rule in the American South? Set up barriers (voting, property, literacy, poll taxes)

  10. Which country is a rare example of a Western nation that pursued free market democracy under conditions similar to many developing countries today? Weimar Germany

  11. Who was the minority group in Weimar Germany? The Jews

  12. World on Fire Chapter Ten: The Middle Eastern Cauldron

  13. What are the three subregions of the Middle East? North Africa, the Gulf States, and the “Levant” or “ Mashriq” countries.

  14. Who disrupted Egypt’s market dominance in the 1950s? PresidenGamal Abdel Nasser

  15. What religion is the majority of the population in the Gulf States? The vast majority are Sunny Muslims

  16. What are said to be the physical differences between Sephardic Jews and Ashkenazi Jews in Israel? Sephardic Jews are darker and “look Arab” whereas Ashkenazi Jews “look European”.

  17. Which state has outperformed all of its neighbors in the Middle East economically? Israel

  18. In Saudi Arabia, how many men are unemployed and how much of the population is illiterate? 30% of men are unemployed, and 25% of the total population is illiterate

  19. What do most Israelis agree to be their reason for market dominance? (Jewish side) It is the country’s “human capital”: its unusually skilled and educated population and their deep commitment to the survival and success of a Jewish homeland.

  20. How do Israeli Arabs perceive themselves? As an exploiter “indigenous” majority- they are suffering at the hands of an abusive, “outsider” colonizer minority

  21. What was the ratio of Arabs to Jews during the Israel wars? Jews were outnumbered by the Arabs by 20:1 yet still managed to win four wars.

  22. What did Thomas Friedman believe to be the solution to Middle Eastern terrorism? “multi-ethnic, pluralistic, free-market democracy”

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