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Why are Jewish people normally so successful?

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What are they doing differently that the majority of Americans aren't doing?

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I've dated 2 Jewish guys.

Guy #1: total 1%'er. worked at a job he hated because it paid him a bundle of money even though it gave him ulcers and left him with no free time to have a personal life... his parents pushed him and his brother hard to go to Ivy League schools and get jobs on Wall St.

Guy #2: total bohemian. works at a non-profit, does lots of drugs. owns a nice condo, but only because he inherited it. otherwise he makes a mediocre income and most of his salary goes straight up his nose.
 
The Jewish religion puts a very strong emphasis on education. Not just religious education (Talmud, etc.) but civil education. Hebrew school 3 days a week. When you have a dedication to education, you tend to want to go to college and make something out of your life (doctor, lawyer, CPA, etc.). Even the religious education, it is not praying to god all day, but Talmud is a unique code of laws. It describes the legal description of marriage, divorce, loans, borrowing, and much much more. It's not just a read and memorize type of books, but an interactive guide that teaches you to think and debate. If someone asked me if Jews are smarter than everyone else? I would say absolutely.
 
I've dated 2 Jewish guys.

Guy #1: total 1%'er. worked at a job he hated because it paid him a bundle of money even though it gave him ulcers and left him with no free time to have a personal life... his parents pushed him and his brother hard to go to Ivy League schools and get jobs on Wall St.

Guy #2: total bohemian. works at a non-profit, does lots of drugs. owns a nice condo, but only because he inherited it. otherwise he makes a mediocre income and most of his salary goes straight up his nose.

I had a group of Jewish friends in college, I know at least one guy that fits each of these to a T

Guy #1 is the cultural norm for Jews.. work your ass off.
Guy #2 is the spoiled kid of #1
Guy #3 is the kid of #1, but instead of being a loser who blows his inheritance, decided to "change the world instead of chase money"... cue teaching and social work degrees. They then spend their 20's learning the rest of the world outside of their rich suburb does not fit its politically correct narrative. Cue resentment and regret. By the time they are 35, they go back to being like guy #1.
 
Historically, the Jews were associated with money because both Christianity and Islam forbid charging interest when loaning someone money. It was considered greedy to expect interest.

This of course meant only Jews could be bankers. Who would run a bank for free? The most you could expect to borrow from a non Jew was a small personal amount, and you'd be expected to return it quickly.
 
Historically, the Jews were associated with money because both Christianity and Islam forbid charging interest when loaning someone money. It was considered greedy to expect interest.

This of course meant only Jews could be bankers. Who would run a bank for free? The most you could expect to borrow from a non Jew was a small personal amount, and you'd be expected to return it quickly.

The Jewish religion forbids charging interest. The way around that rule was to not charge interest but charge a paperwork fee or something else. BTW - Christians and Islams also had a fair share of loan working.
 
I had a group of Jewish friends in college, I know at least one guy that fits each of these to a T

Guy #1 is the cultural norm for Jews.. work your ass off.
Guy #2 is the spoiled kid of #1
Guy #3 is the kid of #1, but instead of being a loser who blows his inheritance, decided to "change the world instead of chase money"... cue teaching and social work degrees. They then spend their 20's learning the rest of the world outside of their rich suburb does not fit its politically correct narrative. Cue resentment and regret. By the time they are 35, they go back to being like guy #1.

Had a Jewish roommate. Big ass hippie/pot head but his family was rolling in dough.
 
I don't know about the rich part, but they sure make great comedians, actors, painters. Maybe talent has a lot to do with it, if anything has to do with it, assuming "it" is true in the first place.

Then u probably have as ask why do blacks make such good athletes, gays make such good hair stylists, Polish have such problems screwing in lightbulbs, and republicans make the perfect boneheads?

and Dems make the best whiny trolls. Good point!
 
They are God's chosen people.

If you don't believe God exists, then explain to me any other reason why Jews are so successful? You literally can't.
 
The Jewish religion puts a very strong emphasis on education. Not just religious education (Talmud, etc.) but civil education. Hebrew school 3 days a week. When you have a dedication to education, you tend to want to go to college and make something out of your life (doctor, lawyer, CPA, etc.). Even the religious education, it is not praying to god all day, but Talmud is a unique code of laws. It describes the legal description of marriage, divorce, loans, borrowing, and much much more. It's not just a read and memorize type of books, but an interactive guide that teaches you to think and debate. If someone asked me if Jews are smarter than everyone else? I would say absolutely.

Not sure why you're emphasizing religion so much. Although they're responsible for the curse of monotheism, they're now the most post-religious group in the world. Kind of ironic, or maybe it was a 4000 year old plan to control the world's finances.
 
Let see, work very darn hard, keep nose clean, not blamming anyone = success. Shocking eh?

On a side note, how can you tell a person is a Jew? Serious question and no lame joke please.

you can usually tell by name......... if it's got a gold, berg, stein, baum, cohen (or variations like cone, kohn, kahn, ........usually germanic names, like schiller, stiller, schumer, ........for ashkenazi jews (germanic/russian)

and sephardic jews are usually white people, with a hispanic last name that doesn't translate to english, and ends in -ez instead of -es


like martines <---catholic = martin

martinez, could possibly be a jewish name (in 1492 the sephardic jews (jews froms sepharad (Spain) we're expelled, or forced to convert to catholicism and change there name...... the jews held onto there heritage in secret (hence the -ez spellings became popular)

however

estevez, would seem to denote jewish,....... este (it means is in spanish, no translation to an english name), and carries the -ez ending

buenavitez <----obvious jewish name

moralez <------obvious jewish name (this is my mothers maiden name)


those are two tribes of jews you see in the united states mostly today, there are other tribes spread out across the world however, ethiopian jews (beta jews)
there's even chinese jews.... there were originally 12 tribes of judah
 
Please read warnings, first

(1)...The above note rubs salt in the wound, if you don't like the implications of this thread.

(2)...The above link could possibly be considered racist, and may be part of a bigger, potentially racist set of articles, so if that bothers you, please DON'T read it.

N.B. If you consider me at fault for posting the link, then I would/could argue that this whole thread is racist.
Your link is racist because it promote one race over another. History, is written by the winner and is bias so as science discoveries, etc...

Not long ago the Nazi labeled the Jews as untermensch, apartheid South Africa sees blacks as kaffirs (infidels), British whites considered Indians and African are slave, Australian whites considered themselves as the master race over that of the bushman, and European whites considered themselves to be superior over that of the American Native.

IMHO, given the same education, living condition, and opportunities since birth, people with out birth defects or drug/alcohol birth then it is likely that all would performs equally.
 
i wouldn't exactly call it coincidence that jews control the banks, media, and liquor..


it's actually pretty well known... and the USA is not the first country they've come under scrutiny or even been expelled from for these reasons. (see Spain) (not being racist here, just pointing out trends you can find everywhere if you do a little digging...


search google for history of jews in your hometown, you'll more than likely find they controlled the liquor business and news media outlets...
 
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Obviously their god is the one true god and everyone else is going to burn in hell.

actually the belief is that Christ was not the savior, he was a false prophet.

jews believe that they're savior has yet to come, they also believe that as Gods chosen people, God allows them to act quite wicked, because they are God's chosen people, and it is Gods will to show how merciful he can be, towards the jewish people, regardless of morality (that's why jewish standup comedy is so funny!!) (why they joke about there own evil ways)

Also, trials and tribulations (the time after the rapture of hell on earth) is meant to be the time for which jews are to accept Christ as there savior, and be spared the flames of hell
 
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actually the belief is that Christ was not the savior, he was a false prophet.

jews believe that they're savior has yet to come, they also believe that as Gods chosen people, God allows them to act quite wicked, because they are God's chosen people, and it is Gods will to show how merciful he can be, towards the jewish people, regardless of morality (that's why jewish standup comedy is so funny!!) (why they joke about there own evil ways)

I wonder how people can actually think that miracles and prophets are going to occur anymore. With the ability to spread information so quickly, it's pretty easy to disprove any 'miracles' happening now.
 
they have the absolute oldest genetics, which also attributes to the inteliigence factor......longest time to evolve the genome..


(see now why hitler wanted theme exterminated, and why he wanted to prop up an aryan master race?)
 
I wonder how people can actually think that miracles and prophets are going to occur anymore. With the ability to spread information so quickly, it's pretty easy to disprove any 'miracles' happening now.

i dunno 🙂


but there's also a word for that..... for jews who don't believe in the faith anymore.....it's called "aposthate jew"

and this is mostly what the Israeli regime is made up of (this is what Benjamin Netanyahu actually identifies himself as) (and a zionist)
 
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i have a feeling i'm going to get banned for this thread..... (mods here are VERY touchy when it comes to this subject)

oh well though, i dont think i said anything offensive, or anything that can't be found with some research
 
also, one last thing because it's relevant to the thread...

there's a term for the whole idea of this thread..... it's "jewish exceptionalism"
 
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