Communities breed out aggression! Really? Like the Romans were not aggressive slaughtering millions and stealing their wealth and making slaves of the survivors.
One can admire Jewish culture and the Jewish work ethic, but the idea that this enormous level of achievement is purely cultural, while possible, certainly does not pass the Occam’s razor test. As Wade says, ‘People are highly imitative, and if the Jewish advantage were purely cultural, such as hectoring mothers or a special devotion to education, there would be little to prevent others from copying it.’ They haven’t.
So why do Jews (Semites) succeed whereas Arabs (Semites) live in squalor. Did the success gene split 1400 years ago or did the Arabs accept a cult bent on destruction? Whenever I hear "Occam’s razor test", I know the writer is attempting to appear logical where there is no logic.
Does the Negro fail because he has dumb genes or is it that he accepts the culture of sustenance of the War on Poverty pursuing non intellectual pastimes.
~‘People are highly imitative, and if the Jewish advantage were purely cultural, such as hectoring mothers or a special devotion to education, there would be little to prevent others from copying it.’ They haven’t.~
Why would one group copy another? But you surely can await people copying one another within one group.
Their argument is absolutely illegitimate.
It is absolutely clear that difference between groups are solely cultural and there is no legit clues to prove otherwise.
Of course you need some intellectual and physical qualities for more achievments but if some ethnicies generally lacks that it is cultural as well.
If Muslims are leaning to inbreeding you can await a number of underforming freaks within their societies. If some other group doesn’t value education and gaining valuable skills and underperforming as a result it is exactly cultural.
Jews and Arabs are called Semites because they speak a Semitic language. Being Semitic has nothing to do with genes.
Do you understand the distinction between Ashkenazi Jews and Sephardic Jews?
It appears to this layman there is a strong helping of both nature and nurture in humans.
Not all Arabs fail. Diaspora Lebanese Christians are some of the world's most successful businessmen. They dominate the economies of Senegal, the Ivory Coast, and various Latin American countries (Carlos "Slim" Salem being the most famous example.
So in the case of Arabs, their backwardness is more a result of culture than genetics, since Christian Arabs seem to do quite well. In contrast, there are other groups of people who do badly regardless of their religion.