Jews don’t go around saying “learning is acting white”.
They don’t have four kids by different mothers (and the kids know who their parents are).
There is a father and strong male role model in every home.
They appreciate books and learning.
“There is a father and strong male role model in every home”
Ridiculous. I can’t count the number of Jewish friends I’ve had whose parents were divorced.
Re “They appreciate books and learning”. Yes, this is one of the cornerstones of our believe systems and drive to succeed, to be a good person, to do good deeds (sedalka), and to live a life based on a belief in a God who guides us with tolerance and moral guidelines for life.
We were usually referred to as “The People of the Book” but if you go to any normal Jewish home, you will find a library that is significant, if only of Jewish affairs related books and prayer books.
My mother had 3,500 books in our house. I have about 2,000. My friends have thousands each. Books are one of our eyes into the world, the past, the present, the future and the universal.
Also it is an entry into the guidance of God, the Jewish Prophets, and Scholars, as well as Jewish thought, from Miamonides to Herzl to Jacobtinsky, Ben Gurion, and Eli Wiesel.
This is why the Nazis and the Communists burn books. They don’t want people to think for themselves. They only want to “supply” the “books” that they need to read in order to be controlled by the totalitarians, much like the Left today is doing in academia, the public libraries, and in the newspapers.
Books are for the curious, the thinkers, the dreamers, and the builders of tomorrow. No wonder the Left, the Islamic extremists, and other enemies of “free thought” hate the Jews, then the Christians, Hindus, etc.
Books make us “free” from the totalitarians of the world, and those totalitarians fear a free mind and the very books that set them free.
Anyone can become a “person/people of the books”. When you go to a library, you become a “person of the books”. When you read a prayer book or theology book, you become a “person of the book”.
When you read the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights/Amendments, and the Federalist papers, you become a “person of the books AND FREEDOM”.
We Jews recognized this “strength” many millennia ago when we started to write psalms, prayers, observations, and commentaries on God, prayer, freedom, humanity.
That is one major reason why we can do so well in this world. We take its gifts and use them for the embetterment of mankind. God told us to do this and we have.