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[quote=CindyBindy][quote=Anonymous]
Tragedy visited many, many peoples in history. Jews do not have the monopoly on misery. There must be something unique about the Jewish people besides the trials they withstood.  Plus I would hardly call the Holocaust something the Jews just shook off and carried on.  It's a major piece of their narrative and a very [b]lucrative [/b]niche.[/quote]

Uh. I don't know if I would describe the Holocaust as "lucrative".

Going back to the original discussion of what Jews do right, I think everything has been said about Tiger Parenting, etc. But I think it's interesting to point out that a lot of Jewish families are motivated to educate their children for the sake of education - not for money. While there are families in other cultures like that too, I have always gotten the impression that the majority - not all - of immigrants emphasize education to their kids because of the future incomes it promises. Like, "be a doctor, be an engineer, be a lawyer - no, no, don't become a professor! Even if you get tenure you won't make any money!"  And while plenty of Jewish families think that way too, I've also met a significant number of Jewish parents who earn working class incomes but have generations of college education behind them and absolutely expect that their kids will go to Brandeis or Amherst or whatever. They sneer at mercenary ambitions as anti-intellectual. I think that's a great attitude to have and I wish more college administrations would have that ethos. When universities are run like corporations, like they increasingly are now, you can really see how it affects the humanities departments.[/quote]

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