Re: Saima Alvi's Contribution to Understanding

At 9:10 AM -0400 1/10/02, Threehegemons@aol.com wrote:
>  If one wants to complain about potentially racist generalizations 
>about peoples, one may wish to critique the comments Ehud Barak made 
>in an interview a few months ago about Palestinians (or was it all 
>Arabs?) basically being liars.  One might also wish to critique the 
>common practice of rabbis and other Jewish community leaders of 
>blaming the German people in general for the Holocaust.  That these 
>two examples have generated virtually no criticism in the Jewish 
>community makes claims that it is only Jews who are collectively 
>held responsible for policies of specific political forces rather 
>specious.

gives me an opening for a gripe. for more than a decade now there's 
all this scholarly talk of overseas chinese business networks, the 
overseas chinese, etc. and not so scholarly talk of the bamboo 
network, lords of the pacific rim, etc.

all without demure from scholars, indeed with funding etc. i have 
often wondered whether an application to study jewish business 
networks would even get past the first rung...

kj khoo