[quote=Rich Toscano]What? That’s just dumb. Anyone can convert to Judaism, the religion. You can’t convert to being of “Jewish” ancestry/genetics, just like you can’t convert to being of any particular genetics.
I’m going to need you to knock off the Jew-bashing… I don’t want this kind of garbage on my site.[/quote]
Part of his statement is actually correct (A part only). There is a small group of Jewish who believe that you have to have both the faith and the genetic background to be ‘truly’ a Jew or of Gods ‘chosen’. It is a form of elitism.
As for why they rise in the ranks of power, it has nothing to do with being ‘Jewish’. It is likely because a Jewish mother seems to be ‘related’ to the Asian Tiger Mom. Slacking off in your studies is not tolerated, and ‘you are going to be a doctor if I have to haunt you from the grave!’. If you have not become a doctor, than you are a disgrace to the family.
You don’t plan for success and become successful by playing video games and goofing off. A Jewish child’s spare time is taken with piano/music lessons, foreign language, and accelerated learning (fundamentals including hard science vs the fuzzy soft stuff now taken for science in many schools). — Hard work, not slacking off, brings success.
As for the final statement
Membership of this highly selective club (0.2% of the world population) must carry its benefits…
It does. Look up lack of genetic diversity and what it causes. Being 0.2% of population and restricting marriage to only that group causes in-breading and all that comes with it. I think the group that believes in both the genetic and the religious aspect are the Ashkenazi (though that line is also starting to blur – Reform movement). Terms to look up:
Jewish inbreeding
Endogamy
Jewish chosenness
Haredi Judaism
Ashkenazi diseases
Tay-Sachs
Gaucher’s disease
..
closing this as: “Jews in the family Tree, though myself not a Jew”.
