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Originally Posted by loramin
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The Jews are a very interesting case, because they're different even from other "model minorities" (eg. Japanese and Korean immigrants). What makes the Jews special is, ironically, laws created by Christians. Christians weren't allowed to lend money, and Jews weren't allowed to own land, so these Christian laws all but forced Jews to go into banking, money-lending, and mercantilism. It turns out that being involved with money while everyone around you isn't is kind of good for accumulating money, and when you apply that over hundreds and hundreds of years you get their out-sized influence (which is not to say that a secret cabal of Jews runs the world, just that on average in many countries a Jew will have more money/influence than the average non-Jewish citizen).
Contrast that with people who literally owned nothing less than 200 years ago, had no such laws benefiting them (ironically, although those laws were meant to hurt the Jews, they wound up being helpful) and I think it becomes a lot clearer how one "former slave group" could be vastly more successful than another former slave group (and that's not even accounting for the wealth of other factors that separate Jews from blacks).
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This is what I'm talking about ;n; You don't even read the post before responding with unrelated information associated tangentially with one of the words you find most compelling.
You saw "jews," assumed I was making a comparison between contemporary populations and responded with information on that topic. had you read the rest of the post, you would realize it lacked any serious argument. you need to slow down, stop attempting to infer motives and listen to the question. It is evident you know a lot ^^ stop being so eager to simply share what you know and you'll find it will serve you better. or continue to troll ^^