Attention deficit: China’s campaign against Uighurs
Economist Podcasts
The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Unparalleled surveillance, forced labour, even allegations of ethnic cleansing: atrocities in Xinjiang province carry on. Why are governments and businesses so loth to protest? The field of economics is, at last, facing up to its long-standing race problem. And how covid-19 is scrambling Scandinavians’ stereotypes about one another.
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| 1:05.2 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:13.2 | You'd think that a field dedicated to studying human behavior and its consequences would have a |
| 1:18.5 | handle on racism. But economics is not only unrepresentative in its racial makeup, it's fallen |
| 1:24.5 | short in explaining how racism arises in the first place. |
| 1:28.5 | And before the pandemic, if you asked a Swede what Danes are like, you'd probably have heard |
| 1:33.4 | fun but feckless. A Dane would have told you Swedes are uptight. But the effects of Sweden's |
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