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Old November 21st, 2016 #1
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Default Slezkine's theory of ethnic identity & Market Dominant Minorities

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Slezkine's theory of ethnic identity

Slezkine characterizes the Jews (alongside other groups such as the Armenians, overseas Chinese, Gypsies) as a Mercurian people "specializ[ing] exclusively in providing services to the surrounding food-producing societies," which he characterizes as Apollonians.

This division is, according to him, recurring in pre-20th century societies. With the exception of the Gypsies, these "Mercurian peoples" have all enjoyed great socioeconomic success relative to the average among their hosts, and have all, without exception, attracted hostility and resentment. A recurring pattern of the relationship between Apollonians and Mercurian people is that the social representation of each group by the other is symmetrical, for instance Mercurians see Apollonians as brutes while Apollonians see Mercurians as effeminate. Mercurians develop a culture of "purity" and "national myths" to cultivate their separation from the Apollonians, which allows them to provide international services (intermediaries, diplomacy) or services that are taboo for the local Apollonian culture (linked to death, magic, sexuality or banking).

Slezkine develops this thesis by arguing that the Jews, the most successful of these Mercurian peoples, have increasingly influenced the course and nature of Western societies, particularly during the early and middle periods of Soviet Communism, and that modernity can be seen as a transformation of Apollonians into Mercurians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Slezkine

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Dominant Minority

A dominant minority is a minority group that has overwhelming political, economic, or cultural dominance in a country despite representing a small fraction of the overall population (a demographic minority). Dominant minorities are also known as alien elites if they are recent immigrants.

The term is most commonly used to refer to an ethnic group which is defined along racial, national, religious or cultural lines and that holds a disproportionate amount of power. A notable example is South Africa before 1994, where White South Africans – or Afrikaners more specifically – wielded predominant control of the country despite never composing more than 22% of the population. African American-descended nationals in Liberia, Sunni Arabs in Ba'athist Iraq, the Alawite minority in Syria (since 1970 under the rule of the Alawite Assad family), and the Tutsi in Rwanda since the 1990s have also been cited as current or recent examples.

Examples

Current:


Alawites in Syria

Muhajirs (Muslim refugees from India) in Pakistan

Sunni Muslims in Bahrain

Ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia (in several countries, this group makes up 15% or less of the population while owning over 60% of the economy of such countries)

Historical:

Arab Sudanese in (pre-independence) South Sudan
Afro-Guyanese in Guyana
Ahom Tribe in erstwhile Ahom Kingdom now modern-day Assam, India
Americo-Liberians in Liberia
Anglo-Quebecers in Quebec prior and up until the Quiet Revolution
Anglo-Burmese, Burmese Indians, Chinese Burmese and Burmese Christians in British Burma (modern-day Myanmar)
Arabs in the Zanzibar Sultanate
Austrians in the Austrian Empire
Austrians and Hungarians in Austria-Hungary
Azerbaijanis in the Safavid Iran
Britons and Anglo-Indians in British India
Britons in Hong Kong during British colonial rule
Caldoches in New Caledonia
Catholics in South Vietnam
Ethnic Chinese in Bắc thuộc Vietnam
Chagatai in the Mughal Empire, India
Hindu Dogras in the Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir from early 19th to 20th century.
Dutch and Indo people[citation needed] in the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia)
French Lusignans in medieval Cyprus
Germans in what is now Baltic States during the Order, subsequent local German states, Swedish rule in Estonia and later the Russian Empire
Greeks in the Alexandrian Empire
Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt
Greeks in the Seleucid Empire
Greeks in the Byzantine Empire
Hungarians in Transylvania
Various Muslim dynasties of Turkic and Turco-Mongol origin in different parts of Medieval India, who were alien elites of foreign origin.
Various Turkic dynasties in Medieval Iran
Japanese in Taiwan during Japanese colonial rule
Japanese in Korea during Japanese colonial rule
Japanese in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo
Krios in Sierra Leone
Mainland Chinese in Taiwan (Republic of China) during the martial law period
Manchurians in the Qing Dynasty, China
Mongolians in the Yuan Dynasty, China
Norman French in the Norman Dynasty of England
Peninsulares in the New World, modern-day Mexico, Colombia, Philippines, Cuba, and other nations of the former Spanish Empire
Phoenicians in Ancient Carthage
Pieds-Noirs in French Algeria
The Protestant Ascendancy in British-ruled Ireland
Romans in the Roman Empire
Ethnic Russians in the Baltic Soviet Republics
Scots-speaking Lowlanders in Scotland prior to the Highland Clearances
Serbian people in Kosovo after the break-up of Socialist Yugoslavia
Sikhs in the Muslim-majority Punjab in the late 18th and 19th century.
Sudanese Arabs in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (modern-day Sudan and South Sudan)
Arab Sunni Muslims in Saddam Hussein-era Iraq
Swedes in the Swedish Empire
Turks in the Ottoman Empire
French speakers in Belgium before World War II
White Namibians in South-West Africa (modern-day Namibia)
White South Africans in South Africa under apartheid
White Zimbabweans in Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominant_minority
 
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