They have big genetic issues with cancer and other diseases. If you think you are in that bloodline you need to watch for cancer and take advantage of free cancer genetic tests when available...like BRCA. I cant remember the hoops you have to jump through but they go to the head of the line.
Also pancreatic cancer.
Social environment plays a part.
I grew up in a pretty wealthy suburb. The population was almost entirely Christian, and one of my teachers told our class that the average IQ in the district was 110.
Middle class life must produce higher IQs in general.
Tell them not to come to NYC, DeBlasio just canned all enrichment programs .
Here is a joke: What do you get when you put two Jews together- three opinions.
“Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” 2Tim.3:15.
I wonder if Vladimir Ashkenazy is any good?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsyGQYnvkMc
LOL. Yeah he is. Plays this 25% faster than I can, and infinitely more beautifully.
But political acuity is in inverse proportion to IQ. Must be.
Among them all is why Jews in Europe gained access to so many demanding professions at a time when (until the Napoleonic Code) they could not have citizenship, all across Europe.
The lack of citizenship was a curse to most but came with something positive for the brightest. No citizenship meant they could not get to political power, it was out of reach. But that also meant he smart ones could not be a threat to those in power, so those in power used them, assigning them roles - trading, international finance, farm and property management, tax collecting - rather than gives such roles to a citizen who could more easily use it to gain power for themselves. I read once how in Russia and the Ukraine there were two kinds of Jews - the poorest of the poor who had less than nothing, and the ones who managed all the serfs and the farms they farmed, for those who controlled all the land. The Jewish manager was rewarded well and got his children educated well, and the powers that be would let the Jew do all that but they’d never be a citizen, never be able to aspire to power in their own right.
I’m gonna to quote my deceased grandmother, born in Russia.
“Best not to mention it; they’re jealous on us.”
I remember reading somewhere that the for Ashkenazi Jews are not considered to be real Jews but claim to be and real Jews do not accept their claim to be Jews.
And scripture mentions “Those who claim they are Jews but are not”. Not that these two are connected, but could be.
My wife is an Ashkenazi Jew.
Can we please remove this Thread?
My wife doesn’t need any more confidence building.
IQ is genetic. Doesn’t take a genius to know that. ;)
Read later.