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That would be a strange claim to be made by Thomas Sowell, who has written a fair amount about middleman minorities. As for market dominant minorities, as noted in the original link, Chua's concept is about such places as 'the Philippines, [where] Chua notes that the Chinese community comprise one percent of the population but control 60 percent of the private economy, with the result being resentment on the part of the Filipino majority against the Chinese minority creating an ethnic conflict. Similarly, in Indonesia the Chinese Indonesian community make up three percent of the population but control 75 percent of the economy. Similar patterns occur throughout other Southeast Asian economies." Clearly a different concept than middleman minorities, and neither has anything to do with US whites; not everything on the planet is about the current culture war.
Chua’s concept seems too narrow. If you divide into different ethnic groups (not just white but British, German, etc) there is no dominant group in the US in part because the economy is so massive unlike the Philippines.
It is true that Jews disproportionately own a lot of wealth in the US. It is also true that probably inspires jealous.
Too narrow for what? As an excuse to criticize some group one doesn't like, perhaps. But not as a means of understanding the world; it is specifically about a phenomenon which takes place in relatively low-income countries. Broadening it risks rendering it both meaningless and useless
I think you have this backwards. I’m not here to bury the Jews but to praise them.
I also think Jewish success in wealth explains in part why we are so worried about antisemitism. When you have a dominant market minority jealousy often occurs which leads to ugly acts. So we have a norm of trying to police that jealousy.
In my mind, a dominant market minority doesn’t mean that they have to own a majority of the wealth. In my mind, that minority group has to have a very disproportionately large share of the wealth — enough to create jealousy.
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