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| s0nicfan 07/20/18 10:16:42 PM #45: | E32005 posted... LightningAce11 posted...Why have Jewish people historically been picked on? This, basically. For most of the Jewish people's history they have been under the rule of one Empire after another. In some cases that meant they had fewer rights, while in other cases it meant they literally couldn't own land. The result is, to survive they learned the value of dealing in currency and chose to charge interest at a time when other religions were explicitly barring it. This is both where the Jewish Banker meme, as well as a lot of animosity comes from. People have used their charging interest as justification for a lot of things, cuz they saw it as exploitive. Jews are also historically one of the earliest people to actively encouraged literacy. For many nations, teaching the common people to read was seen like a recipe for disaster, but since the Jews never had a nations, they didn't have to worry about the common people rising up against them. This, combined with the banking, resulted in a small group of Highly Educated people who were good with finances build to survive when one Empire would inevitably be replaced by another. They have also been pretty famously difficult to convert, so for many empires trying to force everyone under one religion they were seen like a general problem group. Of course, since they didn't actively try to convert anybody else, they also never really had good justification to punish them for it. So they tended to make stuff up. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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