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AdreanaLangston
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The NYT's interviewee means it when he says he has nothing against Haitians. It's not that he dislikes seeing them in his town. It's that he dislikes seeing them in his town DOING SO WELL. The fact that they are thriving with businesses and fixed up homes has him feeling some kinda way. RESENTFUL

According to Petersen, that change in status comes from a sense of injustice. Members of dominant groups simply believe they deserve to be the dominant force in their societies, and resent those challenging their positions at the top of the pyramid. "Any group that’s been dominant — well, it’s not that easy for them not to be dominant anymore," Petersen tells me. This helped explain the puzzle of Kaunas and Vilnius. In Kaunas, the Soviet invasion in 1940 had politically empowered local Jews, who had occupied leadership positions in the Communist Party prior to the invasion and ended up with plum Soviet jobs as a result. This sparked intense feelings of resentment on the part of Kaunas residents, resulting in the vicious pogrom. In Vilnius, by contrast, non-Jewish ethnic Poles held most leadership positions. The Soviet invasion didn’t empower Jews on a large scale, and thus failed to create any resentment toward them. In his book, Petersen argues that his theory helps explain the causes of other cases of ethnic violence in Eastern Europe, including the carnage in the Balkans in the 1990s. Other scholars have since found that it could be used to understand communal violence elsewhere in the world. A 2010 paper published in the journal World Politics tested Petersen’s theory, looking at 157cases of ethnic violence in nations ranging from Chad to Lebanon. It found strong statistical correlations between a group’s decline in status and the likelihood that it turns to violence against another group. “"Any group that’s been dominant — well, it’s not that easy for them not to be dominant anymore"”
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I believe the interviewee when he says it is hard to explain. Once there had been white owned stores on such and such street. Those eventually got boarded up. They are being reopened but with Haitain Black owners. Boarded up houses are being fixed up and occupied, but by Black Haitians. I

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