Bon Voyage
- Poverty in a wealthy world: whose problem is it?
- "At no time in history has the gulf between rich and poor been so wide...at no time in history have the lives of the rich been so forcefully brought to the attention of the poor through television and Hollywood films...an ordinary citizen of a poor...third world country...is aware of how insubstantial is his share of the world's wealth; he knows that he lives under conditions that are much harsher and more devastating than those of a ‘Westener’ and that he is condemned to a much shorter life. He senses...inadequacy. The Western world is scarcely aware of the humiliation that is experienced by most of the world's population."
Orhan Pamuk, ‘The Anger of the Damned,’ The New York Review of Books, November 15, 2001, p.12, quoted in World On Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
Amy Chua, Doubleday: 2003, p.258;
- "Running contrary to the popular belief that exporting free market democracy will stimulate developing countries' economies and promote peace, WORLD ON FIRE is a dire warning of the potentially catastrophic consequences of globalization.
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"A brilliant, groundbreaking assault on the prevailing wisdom that the American political and economic model is a one–stop solution to the world's woes. It is likely to stimulate plenty of debate and to stand in company, and competition, with a whole shelf of influential books—most notably New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman's THE LEXUS AND THE OLIVE TREE—that argue for America's benificent role in exporting capitalism and democracy around the world."Elle Magazine
