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Independent anti-graft agencies and meritocratic hiring raised business confidence in a multi-ethnic city-state. Competitiveness followed institutional credibility — explicitly marketed as governance, not ethnic essence.
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Social trust
- Core idea Trust beyond kin
- Payoff Lower transaction costs
- Institutions Courts, norms, media
- Scholarly frame Putnam, Fukuyama
- Debate Diversity critiques
- Not this No trust-by-race
Blood groups
- Systems ABO · Rh · many
- Pattern Frequency clines
- Clinical Matching saves lives
- Forensics Weak ancestry signal
- Evolution Pathogen hypotheses
- Universal donor Context-dependent
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Social trust · Italian familism and delayed firm scale
Southern Italian economies historically relied on kin credit when courts were weak — Fukuyama's example of high particularized trust but lower generalized trust. EU legal harmonization and education expanded circles without changing "blood." South Africa attempted to rebuild generalized trust across racial lines through public testimony and legal reform after enforced distrust.
Social trust · Singapore's anti-corruption bureaucracy
Independent anti-graft agencies and meritocratic hiring raised business confidence in a multi-ethnic city-state. Competitiveness followed institutional credibility — explicitly marketed as governance, not ethnic essence.
Social trust · Colonial extraction, civil war, and authoritarian legacies can d
Colonial extraction, civil war, and authoritarian legacies can depress trust for generations, while anti-corruption campaigns and inclusive welfare can raise it within decades. Geography here means institutional climate zones, not biological clines.
Social trust · Post-conflict troughs
Regions after civil war or genocide show collapsed trust until truth processes, demobilization, and property rights stabilize — rebuilding is political, not racial. Diverse cities with mixed-income housing, transit, and shared schools (Toronto, parts of London) can outperform segregated "homogeneous" suburbs on bridging trust when institutions are fair.
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Colonial extraction, civil war, and authoritarian legacies can depress trust for generations, while anti-corruption campaigns and inclusive welfare can raise it within decades. Geography here means institutional climate zones, not biological clines.
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Regions after civil war or genocide show collapsed trust until truth processes, demobilization, and property rights stabilize — rebuilding is political, not racial. Diverse cities with mixed-income housing, transit, and shared schools (Toronto, parts of London) can outperform segregated "homogeneous" suburbs on bridging trust when institutions are fair.
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