[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Crooked Timber's Chris Bertram writes about the racist raids against immigrants in the United Kingdom.


• Charlie Stross fears revolution against increasingly xenophobic and increasingly police states in the West.


• Eastern Approaches touches upon the still-vexing question of how to deal with Romania's Communist past and its perpetrators.


• A Fistful of Euros' Alex Harrowell notes that the United States really has largely recovered from the 2008-2009 recession.


• Geocurrents describes the awkward position and questionable future of Burmese migrants in Thailand.


• GNXP's Razib Khan notes that a crowd-sourced South Asian DNA project suggests interesting things about South Asian history, apparently confirming--among other things, to my eyes--Indo-European migrations.


• Language Hat notes a Mexican telenovela broacast in Yucatec Maya.


• New APPS Blog notes that Detroit's bankruptcy is a consequence of too-limited frames--for instance, the self-exclusion of prosperous suburbs from the city they are part of.


• Registan's Kendrick Kuo argues that Russia and China need to be engaged by the United States as stakeholders in Central Asia.


• Strange Maps maps lactose tolerance in Old World populations. Conquering groups are quite ready to take to milk.


• Understanding Society links to description of a fascinating-sounding project analysing populations in Eurasia for differences and similarities in their evolution over time.