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"Are Jews Smarter? Are Jews Smarter? Did Jewish intelligence evolve in tandem with Jewish diseases as a result of discrimination in the ghettos of medieval Europe? That’s the premise of a controversial new study that has some preening and others plotzing. What genetic science can tell us—and what it can’t. By Jennifer Senior What's Larry David's evidence for his exceptional brainpower? "To be paranoid, you need a very good imagination." (Photo credit: Jill Greenberg) This story begins, as it inevitably must, in the Old Country. At some point during the tenth century, a group of Jews abandoned the lush hills of Lucca, Italy, and—at the invitation of Charlemagne—headed for the severer climes of the Rhineland and Northern France. These Jews didn’t have a name for themselves, at first. They were tied together mostly by kinship. But ultimately, they became known as Ashkenazim, a variation on the Hebrew word for one of Noah’s grandsons. In some ways, life was good for the Jews in this strange new place. They’d been lured there on favorable terms, with promises of physical protection, peaceful travel, and the ability to adjudicate their own quarrels. (The charter of Henry IV, dated 1090, includes this assurance: “If anyone shall wound a Jew, but not mortally, he shall pay one pound of gold . . . If he is unable to pay the prescribed amount . . . his eyes will be put out and his right hand cut off.”) But in other ways, life was difficult. The Ashkenazim couldn’t own land. They were banned from the guilds. They were heavily taxed. Yet the Ashkenazim did very well, in spite of these constraints, because they found an ingenious way to adapt to their new environment that didn’t rely on physical labor. What they noticed, as they set up their towns, located mainly at the crossroads of trade routes, was that there was no one around to lend money. So there it was: a demand and a new supplier. Because of the Christian prohibition against usury, Jews found themselves a financially indispensable place in their new home, extending loans to peasants, tradesmen, knights, courtiers, even the occasional monastery. The records from these days are scarce. But where they exist, they are often startling. In 1270, for example, 80 percent of the 228 adult Jewish males in Perpignan, France, made their living lending money to their Gentile neighbors, according to Marcus Arkin’s Aspects of Jewish Economic History. One of the most prolific was a rabbi. Two others were identified, in the notarial records, as “poets.”"

http://www.nymetro.com/nymetro/news/culture/features/1478/

10/19/2005 8:45:03 AM

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10/19/2005 8:58:45 AM

10/19/2005 9:01:01 AM

So you think Jews are smarter than Christians? How about if I said Whites are smarter than Blacks and cited SAT scores, IQ scores, and college graduate status, would you agree?

10/19/2005 9:04:18 AM

Blacks have bigger cocks and are going to fuck your gf.

10/19/2005 9:05:25 AM

What the fuck does that have to do with being smart?

10/19/2005 9:09:59 AM

Asians have much faster reflexes, the Irish have the gift of the gab, the British are literary masters, Germans are brillant engineers, the Japanese are better at all forms of electronics, Blacks have bigger dicks and will fuck your gf... Ok, something is missing here. Oh wait, I know. Blacks are superior athletically. But I doubt anyone can really quantify any of this.

[Edited on October 19, 2005 at 9:41 AM. Reason : -]

10/19/2005 9:35:29 AM

this is a theory first proposed by Woody Allen in his movie Manhattan

and this:

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"the Japanese are better at all forms of electronics"

I hope you realize that this stereotype is only 20 years old at the most - up until the '80s, japanese electronics were REALLY crappy - kind of like chinese electronics were about 10 years ago.

[Edited on October 19, 2005 at 10:05 AM. Reason : s]

10/19/2005 10:04:19 AM

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"But I doubt anyone can really quantify any of this"

a lot of those are easy to quantify empirically.

BUT, the PC Police wouldn't have any of it, and anybody doing research in such areas is ostracized, both by the scientific community, and by people in general.

FUCKING PUSSY IDIOTS WHO CAN'T STAND THE TRUTH.

10/19/2005 10:07:39 AM

trapezius is taking steroids again

10/19/2005 10:08:39 AM

Yeah and Hondas weren't always a super reliable car, they were pieces of shit when they first came out.

But back to the topic...just ask this guy!

10/19/2005 10:10:33 AM

Jewish Vulcans Are Quite Logical

10/19/2005 10:20:14 AM

not during Pon Far. (or however you spell it)

10/19/2005 5:50:08 PM

Smarter at stealing your money!!!

10/19/2005 5:55:11 PM

Hindus are better at cherry slushies, computer programming, the Kamasutra, and contriving innovative dieties.

10/19/2005 6:10:38 PM

deities

10/19/2005 6:11:23 PM

Asians are better at math, and they can fly.

10/19/2005 6:11:37 PM

and they all know martial arts

10/19/2005 6:13:17 PM

so what are whites good at?


oh yea, killing everyone else off.




i mean, somones gotta REGULATE!

[Edited on October 19, 2005 at 7:01 PM. Reason : how bout dem apples]

10/19/2005 7:00:38 PM

YER SMART

[Edited on October 19, 2005 at 7:04 PM. Reason : .]

10/19/2005 7:03:45 PM

mexicans!

hahahahaha

10/19/2005 7:15:15 PM

Wait did I click Soap Box or Chit Chat?

10/19/2005 8:08:54 PM

Black people are smarter at basketball and fried chicken.

10/19/2005 9:05:30 PM

^and getting thrown into jail

10/19/2005 11:26:28 PM

"what do you mean by people?"

10/20/2005 1:17:14 AM

If someone wrote an article that because of slavery, black people are stupid, you would be crying racist.

10/20/2005 8:44:51 AM

10/20/2005 11:03:07 AM

I'm just crying.

10/20/2005 11:14:55 AM

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"up until the '80s, japanese electronics were REALLY crappy"

Negative. In the early 1970's the japanese corporation Yamaha produced one of the most badass synths ever made, the GX-1.


Additionally you had the Roland Jupiter 4 and the Korg MS-20 produced in the late 70's.

10/20/2005 11:28:41 AM

I don't know why, but it just sounds strange to hear Kris defending Japanese corporate products.

10/20/2005 1:53:39 PM

A lot of japanese corporations are closely integrated with the government, aren't they?

10/20/2005 2:04:19 PM

I would say the following the history and figuring out why they might be smarter is pointless. Well, it's pointless if your question is "Are Jews Smarter?". The way to find out if Jews are smarter is to test they hypothesis, not study the history.

10/20/2005 2:22:10 PM

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"I don't know why, but it just sounds strange to hear Kris defending Japanese corporate products."

I don't really know/care about how it sounds, he said japan produced crap electronics pre 80's and I know that not to be true. I mean they weren't Moog/ARPs, but that was part of what was so great about them.

10/20/2005 3:06:37 PM

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"so what are whites good at? oh yea, killing everyone else off."

GIT R DONE

10/20/2005 3:23:54 PM