Why are jews so intelligent? (srs)

[adamsz]

part genetics, part epigenetics would be my guess

[redraider86]

Waiting for Redraider to chime in and provide pics

No clue why, but Jew melons are a very real thing. Reduction at 40 should be just as common as rhinoplasties at 18.

Also, Jewish parents tend to have high expectations for their kids when it comes to academics. At my state school, if you were an academic high flyer, you’d be insulted. People would call you a nerd or whatever. “Doing homework is for batty boys innit bruv.” Then when I’d be among other Jews at schul on the weekends, it’s the opposite. If you’re not doing well academically, you’d be called a retard or whatever.

Similar experience. High academic expectations and learning being "cool" within my social circle. You got made fun of if you weren't in AP classes, etc. which also meant you were in academic classes with the kids at your shul.

It’s not our fault so many other people never gave a chit about their educations and then start blaming us when their lives inevitably go down in flames, lol.

Yeah, the ********ers who attended the School of Hard Knocks seem to have lots of interesting opinions about where their lives went wrong.

[PenorBrahNoHomo]

Reduction

[jasticus]

We are master race

[Toker095]

Cause before they brought in their religion thru scripture they were slaves.

They emancipated themselves thru the name of their own created God.

Not rioting or spraying murals with initials of their cause...*cough* din du nuffin" *cough*

They brought in monotheism so well, it stemmed two major religions today.

Once they got faith figured out the rest came easy

[A-man]

Simply a culture that focuses on education.

[sunsean]

Simply a culture that focuses on education.

There's definitely an emphasis on education and being successful. Depending on your level of observance, "education" can mean just studying torah. Most orthodox kids grow up "studying" torah daily. It's a central part of their existence.

Obviously they also promote western education too, college, grad school etc, for the sake of professional success. Nothing makes my Bubby happier than talking about "her son the doctor."

For my family, at least, there are strong survival instincts from their history in Europe before coming to the states. My grandparents were all Holocaust survivors and my parents were both born in Eastern Europe after the war in communist countries. Both prior generations grew up being very frugal and overly guarded and that same "survival" mentality exists today.

A lot of Jews become wealthy through frugality, not necessarily making bank every year. My grandparents came over in the 70s with $9k to their names, worked and saved for years, bought a property, bought another - now almost 50 years since they came over my grandma is a millionaire.

[boofquarf]

Why are Jews and Asians so successful? Ohhh they value education, family values, and hard work, you say? Can some one pass this secret recipe for success to the democratic party and their dark pigmentation constituents?

[fahdalsheheata]

There are people who still believe in the Chronicles of The Elders of Zion.

The FBI released the chronicles of the elders of Zion. So idk about that
https://vault.fbi.gov/protocols-of-l...elders-of-zion

[Kiop]

bigger nose
bigger oxygen
portion innto bloodstream
>>well fed brains...

[Toker095]

bigger nose
bigger oxygen
portion innto bloodstream
>>well fed brains...

/thread

[fahdalsheheata]

Just like the arabs around them, Jews are amazing at talking, networking. And just as Arabs, they love money, they are obsessed with coin.

If that's your main drive in life, eventually you will succeed.

Lol this is not true. They are definitely not like pure Arab.

[TheFitLord]

Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster: creators of Superman

Bob Kane and Bill Finger: creators of Batman

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby: creators of the Marvel universe

William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy: stars of Star Trek

Those of us who are Jewish have been behind some of the most significant pop culture trends of the 20th century!

[A4min]

Nepotism

this

[A-GAME]

Culture.

[Techriding101]

[ScramFranklin]

Genetics/sexual selection, nepotism, and culture that values education (they do this because they are genetically intelligent).

Both christians and jews would place the smartest males in the religous hierarchy. The difference was that the rabbi's were not celibate and were encouraged to have tons of kids.

[SteadyFlexOnU]

Nepotism,lieing, cheating, stealing

[ANumber1]

I grew up in the orthodox jewish world and this is definitely the answer. And a little of nepotism, which I think plays into this. The pressure on kids to become successful is crazy. And that leads to nepotism because a jewish parent of an unsuccessful 20 year old will go to their other jewish friend and ask them to hook up their kid with a job and they will. The phrase "it's not what you know, it's who you know" applies so well because all jews know all jews. And THAT is because of the close-knit community. Also good family values plays a large role.

Yep. I have an acquaintance who teaches Hebrew-language literature and that kind of thing as an adjunct, and had a parent scream at her that she was a "bad Jew" because she wouldn't budge on a bad grade. She blew it off but people who expect that kind of thing definitely exist in all tight-knit sub-groups. We still refer to the tests for firefighters locally as an "Irish welfare application". Your examiner will be a guy named O'Donnoughertihanaghan and if he remembers your grandfather from the St. Patrick's Day parade in 1960, you will pass.

Yeah, the ********ers who attended the School of Hard Knocks seem to have lots of interesting opinions about where their lives went wrong.

"Cuomo hates upstate and I'd be fine if it weren't for all the taxes", complains someone bragging about going into the building trades in a region where there's been almost no new construction for forty years.

[zhengterry]

Just like the arabs around them, Jews are amazing at talking, networking. And just as Arabs, they love money, they are obsessed with coin.

If that's your main drive in life, eventually you will succeed.

I got the impressive that Arabs came directly came with the descendants of Abraham, the first son of his.

Abraham and his wife Sarah couldn't bear children at the time so Hagar, an Egyptian slave wife, bore him Ishmael...

Ishamel is called a wild donkey of a man, not much is said about him but that he wandered off to the desert and became a great archer.

[HannoCometh]

I have something to point out: did you know that some Armenians and folks with Armenoid/Dinaric noses were often sometimes "mistaken" for "Jews" - sometimes to their detriment?

Just something interesting you should know...

[anonymous]

if op ever met a sephardi jew, he never would've made this thread