<p>I was debating with my friend today and he said the only smart white people he's met are jews, and all the others are your typical high school student who cares more about their social life than studies. He also said that among the U.S. international olympiad teams, most if not all the whites are jewish and the rest are asian. My school is almost all asian so I wouldn't know. To what extent is this true?</p>
<p>since Judaism is a religion, and not a race, there would be no real correlation like you could make with someone being Asian...</p>
<p>well your friend is an idiot...</p>
<p>actually ashkenazic jews, that is eastern european jews, are considered to be a separate ethnic group. See this wikipedia article about ashkenazi intelligence:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_intelligence%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_intelligence</a></p>
<p>i've never seen a wikipedia article with any of those dispute things(and that's how i did every project for middle and HS). only seen the citation needed thing.</p>
<p>aside from that, your friend's an idiot, and mabey a nazi...</p>
<p>His friend isn't a nazi, just ignorant.</p>
<p>i didn't say he was for sure, but just putting it out there</p>
<p>why would someone commending jews as the only smart white people be a nazi?</p>
<p>real smart...</p>
<p>there is no such thing as an actual biological race....</p>
<p>I think the Jewish denomination is indeed very smart....</p>
<p>Your friend is an idiot if he thinks someone can 'inherit' intelligence. Maybe it's the typical parental expectations of a culture that shape their children's school ethics. </p>
<p>And what the hell, my friends and I all care much more about school than our social lives and none of us are Jews or asians.</p>
<p>More dumbass people looking for an excuse not to push themselves, pffft.</p>
<p>Jew pride baby :P</p>
<p>Hey everyone, check this out:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race%2C_Evolution_and_Behavior%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race%2C_Evolution_and_Behavior</a></p>
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with the primary Jewish advantage in verbal reasoning and the East Asian advantage primarily in spatial reasoning.
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<p>woah for yellow fever:
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Intelligence is associated with the degree of "hybrid vigor" (heterosis) manifested by offspring of cross-ethnic matings. Children of Japanese–Caucasian cross-ethnic matings score .26 SD higher on several cognitive tests than those from within-ethnic matings, despite having virtually identical parental educational and occupational backgrounds.[86] The increase in scores tends to be higher on cognitive tests that are more g-loaded, suggesting that hybrid vigor improves g. Heterosis may be partially responsible for the Flynn effect.[87]</p>
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<p>lol wikipedia</p>
<p>Lol Jewish is the only religion that is also a race of people. I am 1/4 Jewish (from my grandmother). She is an IDIOT and I hate her but I digress, so not all Jewish people are smart, and not all nonJews are idiots. </p>
<p>From my experience, Jewish children tend to come from wealthier homes and better school districts making them appear more intelligent. But, other white people are just as smart.</p>
<p>"Being Jewish is not a race because Jews do not share one common ancestry or biological distinction. People of many different races have become Jewish people over the years. "</p>
<p>You can't be 1/4 Jewish.....haha</p>
<p>I think that everyone is equally smart, but its how your raised which makes a big difference, and as the poster above me said, If people are from wealthier homes/ better school districts, they may appear to be smarter..</p>
<p>Oh gosh, I meant ethnicity not race. Oops lol.</p>
<p>I think being Jewish is considered an ethnicity if you are Jewish by birth and can trace your ancestors back far. This is because the Hebrews, who were a demonination of the Semitic people (like the Phoenicians, for example) who I THINK were an ethnic group. So yes, of course you can convert (or your ancestors could've converted), but being Jewish can be hereditary thing. However, Jewish law says you are not technically Jewish if your mother wasn't Jewish. Anyway, doesn't matter.</p>
<p>And to reinforce what's been said: the only reason why Jews might appear to be smarter is because, generally, in the United States Jewish families do place a value on education and success (I guess it kind of is like the Asian stereotype), and therefore are pushed harder to do well in school. But this is no indication of their intelligence. I don't think any specific group is any more intelligent (even speaking strictly about academic subjects) than any other.</p>
<p>First of all, Jews can be traced genetically, its not only a religion but its also an ethnicity. How come non jews cant get tay-sachs? Yea.
Also, there was an article in the Times called "The Jewish Brain" or something like that, I think (I dont exactly remember) that it showed brain differences between jews and non-jews.
In my school, besides having all the top students being Asian, the rest are Jews. This is because of the value Jewish homes put on education, and it's not about money either. If it was about money then the millions of Jews who poured in during the early 1900's to 1950's would be the worst students becuase they were poor immigrants.</p>
<p>Jews are smart because they value education more than most people.</p>