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"All multi-ethnic societies exhibit a tendency for ethnic groups to engage in different occupations, have different levels (and,often, types) of education, receive different incomes, and occupy a different place in the social hierarchy.’’
A worldwide study of military forces likewise concluded that ‘‘militaries fall far short of mirroring, even roughly, the multiethnic societies’’ from which they come. At one time, nearly
half the pilots in the Malaysian air force came from the Chinese minority. In Czarist Russia, 40 percent of the army’s high command came from the German ethnic minority that was an international perspective π only 1 percent of the country’s population.∞∫ Similar gross disparities in ethnic representation in occupations, industries and institutions can be found in country after country around the world and in century after century.∞Ω Often those overrepresented in high-level occupations have been minorities with no power to exclude others, but simply possessing particular skills. Germans, for example, have predominated among those who created the leading beer companies in the United States, as they created China’s famous Tsingtao beer and established breweries in Argentina, Australia, Brazil and other countries. Similarly, Jews have predominated in the manufacturing of clothing in medieval Spain, the Ottoman Empire, Argentina, the United States, and other countries.
