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Institutions anchor that leap. If courts enforce contracts cheaply and media exposes cheaters, betrayal becomes risky. If state jobs go only to cousins or one ethnic bloc, strangers rationally withhold trust. Competitiveness — fast investment, large firms, complex supply chains — needs that institutional backup; it is not unlocked by racial purity.
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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 · Corruption equator
Global corruption perception indexes align inversely with trust surveys across continents — a governance belt that cuts through every racialized census category. Trust begins in repeated interactions: children learn fairness in classrooms, workers learn reliability in teams, consumers learn whether labels and regulators tell the truth.
Social trust · Institutions anchor that leap
Institutions anchor that leap. If courts enforce contracts cheaply and media exposes cheaters, betrayal becomes risky. If state jobs go only to cousins or one ethnic bloc, strangers rationally withhold trust. Competitiveness — fast investment, large firms, complex supply chains — needs that institutional backup; it is not unlocked by racial purity.
Social trust · Voluntary associations — unions, temples, sports clubs, professi
Voluntary associations — unions, temples, sports clubs, professional bodies — bridge groups and create weak ties Putnam valued, when they cross neighborhood lines. Survey "generalized trust" captures a mood about strangers; it moves with inequality, crime news, and corruption scandals faster than with ancestry.
Social trust · Segregation and discriminatory policing shrink cross-group conta
Segregation and discriminatory policing shrink cross-group contact, mimicking "low trust" that is actually enforced separation — fixable by housing and justice reform. Immigrant second generations often converge toward host-country trust levels when language, employment, and anti-discrimination laws improve — evidence for learning, not genes.
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Voluntary associations — unions, temples, sports clubs, professional bodies — bridge groups and create weak ties Putnam valued, when they cross neighborhood lines. Survey "generalized trust" captures a mood about strangers; it moves with inequality, crime news, and corruption scandals faster than with ancestry.
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Segregation and discriminatory policing shrink cross-group contact, mimicking "low trust" that is actually enforced separation — fixable by housing and justice reform. Immigrant second generations often converge toward host-country trust levels when language, employment, and anti-discrimination laws improve — evidence for learning, not genes.
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