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On 2/15/02 1:20 AM, in article
qM1b8.39692$Re7.1823398@typhoon.austin.rr.com, "Nota Rex I"
<nospamm@awstun.ll.com> wrote:

> 
> "Ron Nicholson" <balie@rogers.com> wrote in message
> news:BA4C9A88.B1EF%balie@rogers.com...
> | On 2/14/02 2:40 PM, in article
> | 8af53531.0202141140.5279fcaf@posting.google.com, "Amy" <atoomim@yahoo.com>
> | wrote:
> |
> | > "Capt. Duncel (ret.)" <q@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> | > news:<3C67ABF6.EE4CC767@earthlink.net>...
> | >> Sorry arw, you don't scare me a bit. Over the last 5000. Every time the
> | >> Hebrews
> | >> scared the shit out of someone. It is these people you scare the shit out
> of,
> | >> who time after time seek to kill Jews.  There is no Jewish conspiracy and
> | >> there
> | >> is no conspiracy against Jews. Just hatred that has the ability to
> motivate
> | >> the
> | >> masses to go out and kill Jews because there Jews..  Just answer the
> | >> question,
> | >> If you can. No itty bitty mind games.
> | >> Capt. Duncel (ret.)
> | >> Live long and prosper
> | >
> | > The answer is because Jews have traditionally been better educated and
> | > as a result were often more successful.  Thus the real answer is
> | > jealousy.  In the middle ages, Jews were often the tax collectors or
> | > bankers because they knew mathematics when most peasants and even
> | > nobles did not.  Frankly, people rarely ever like either their tax
> | > collector or their loan officer.  Also, the church forbid its members
> | > to charge interest.  Thus the Jews became the money lenders because
> | > over the years, Jews have found nitches that needed filling and filled
> | > those nitches.  Thus the tradition developped in certain fields and
> | > particularly ones that required education.  That is why so many
> | > accountants, lawyers, doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists, and
> | > scientists (note the percentage of nobel laureates in scientific
> | > fields) are Jewish.
> |
> | Jews were able to gain some financial dominance because of religious
> | prohibitions on 'usury.' Earning interest on a load made was, at one point a
> | very uncatholic thing to be doing.
> |
> 
> Jews, and Chinese....they believe in education and have strong family
> connections
> and ties.
> 
> This is simple.  It's not a race thing, it's a culture thing.
> 
> There are superiour cultures and there are inferiour.  Mexican culture is
> highly
> inferiour,
> obviously...the proof is in the pudding.
> 
> Swiss culture is obviously greatly superiour.
> So is Japanese and others.
> 
> The number one predictor of future success is a culture of two parents in a
> stable
> home, in a loving and nuturing environment and who's mental abilities are
> stimulated
> and encourged.
> 
> Take any one of these predictors away and you have your illegal immigrants,
> bus
> drivers
> and politicians.
> 
> Have them all and you have Jonas Salk, Jacque Cousteou and other great men and
> women.
> 
> Some cultures are just superiour to others.  Just like the Roman culture was
> the
> obvious
> superiour culture of the world for 1000 years, so is the western civ culture
> or
> respect
> for  the law, education, health, cleanlyness, empathy and family.
> 
> This is not rocket science, guys.  It might be un pc, but it's still not a
> brain
> teaser.

My comment remains concerning usury. In fact, in Muslim countries this
religious history has been employed to eject American and European
corporations and banks as recently as the 19980s and 1990s through their
court systems.

Cultures are not superior to one another -- just different.