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The cultural habits that contribute to Jewish success - C C - Oct 3, 2023
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THOMAS SOWELL
https://youtu.be/LXn2eD34Jnw
VIDEO EXCERPTS: A number of social economic and cultural patterns have been characteristic of Jews in many very different societies widely scattered around the world.
[...] Jews have over time often converted business success into higher education and professional training for their offspring. An ancient religious tradition of reverence for learning has in many countries been translated into secular intellectualism.
Over a period of 75 years Jews have won 16 percent of all Nobel Prizes awarded in the entire world [...] though they are much less than one percent of the world's population and no more than three percent of the population of any country except Israel. [...] So achievements have been only part of a larger social pattern found repeatedly among Jews around the world.
[...] Unusually low rates of alcoholism have been found in studies of Jews in Poland, Canada, Russia, Australia, and the United States.
Widespread philanthropy is likewise been characteristic of Jews from Europe to South Africa and from the Western Hemisphere to Australia.
Although Jewish incomes have almost invariably been above the national average of the countries in which they lived, Jewish politics have consistently been of the political left, whether moderate or radical.
They have [...] advocated the welfare state in France, Germany, the United States, Australia, and Israel. The creation of the Soviet Union and of Eastern Bloc communist nations owed much to Jews. Though these governments later became antagonistic to the Jews -- of Israel, abroad, and to Jews in their own countries.
Only belatedly and on a much smaller scale have Jews become prominent among opponents of the political left...
[...] where Jewish immigrants have arrived in many countries destitute, ill-educated, and lacking a knowledge of the national language -- they have nevertheless brought with them the ingredients of future success for their children if not for themselves.
The history of Jews has not, of course, been merely a history of achievements, but also of suffering and catastrophe.
The achievements and the anguish have not been unrelated. Like many other groups with strikingly higher achievements than those around them, Jews have been resented, hated, and made the targets of politicians and of mobs. [...] It has often been precisely in those societies most desperately in need of the special skills of Jews that anti-Jewish hostility has flourished most...
The cultural habits that contribute to Jewish success