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The Jews are truly an excellent people, with only 16 million Jews in the world, or 0.3% of the world's population.
But this inconspicuous proportion of the population is elite. Not only a large number of masters have appeared in the scientific and cultural circles, but also a large number of world-class super-rich people have appeared in the economic field. Moreover, these plutocrats control the world economy.
(Jew)
So some say that Jews dominate the world today. But strangely, the Jews lost their country for more than two thousand years. Israel was not founded until after World War II, and more than 6 million people are scattered around the world.
So what allowed the Jews, with so few numbers, to emerge from so many of the world's top talents that they dominated the world?
1. The Jews have a unique and distinguished culture
The Jews were a troubled people, and Israel was originally the ancestral home of the Jews, but later fled to Egypt due to the famine. During the civil strife in Egypt, the Jews became slaves, and instead of being slaves, they remigrated to Israel and established a state there.
But the good times did not last long, and the Jews were enslaved by the Babylonian, Persian, and Roman empires, and forced into exile in Eurasia and beyond. They lost their homeland until 1948, when they realized their dream of revival and established Israel.
(Israel)
However, in the long life of more than two thousand years of wandering, the Jews not only survived tenaciously, but also made remarkable achievements in various fields, they lost their homeland, but still maintained national independence and national cohesion, especially the adherence to national culture.
A person's achievements are often due to personality. But when a nation can survive in such a bad environment, it can still be elite, and then it can only find the root of the national culture.
Some people have concluded that Jewish culture has three spiritual cores: first, firm faith; the second is to advocate rationality; The third is the perfect combination of realism, idealism and optimism.
(Old Testament)
Regarding conviction, there is a story of the Exodus in the Old Testament, which tells the history of the Jewish people. The Jews were enslaved in Egypt, and under the leadership of Moses, they left Egypt and returned to their ancestral home, Canaan. And the return of the Egyptians to their homeland was to carry out God's will.
So the Jews worship God, firmly believe that they are God's chosen children, and firmly believe that they will fulfill the mission given to them by God. This belief became their credo in life, enabling them to face and overcome all suffering.
Regarding the advocation of reason, or Einstein put it well, he said that the Jews have a rational spirit, and this spirit is an uncompromising spirit, that is, they always seek the bottom of the matter, and the Jews have never believed that there is some authority that can monopolize the truth.
The Talmud is a treasure trove of Jewish wisdom. In the book, there is a passage that says: "Whenever there is a crisis and we are forced to change our rules, we must fight desperately, no matter how strong the opponent, we must fight to the end." The battles described in the book include both real battles and ideological innovation and revolution.
(The Talmud)
The spirit of reason advocated by the Jews can be summed up in the following characteristics: not superstitious, not worshipped idols, not obsessed with authority. They are unremitting in their search for truth, and dare to question and subvert all the achievements of human knowledge and thought.
The perfect combination of realism, idealism and optimism is evidenced by all phases of Jewish history.
After Moses led the Jews out of Egypt, they crossed the Red Sea and into the desert. They endured endless suffering, no water, no food, and no end to the road, but they never gave up, confident that God would guide them to a bright future, and finally after forty years of arduous trekking, they returned to Canaan.
During World War II, the Nazis implemented a policy of extermination of the Jews, which can be said to be the darkest hour of the Jews, but the Jews were not crushed by suffering, but always believed in the future.
(Jews in concentration camps)
Finally they waited for the end of World War II, and even the opportunity to establish a state. No matter what hardships and hardships Jews encounter, even purgatory on earth, they will not give up hope, but optimism. Follow God's will, step by step, into the future.
Israel's cultural spirit sustains this troubled people, not only to survive the vicissitudes of disasters, but also to live more wonderful lives than any other people on earth.
Second, Jews have a unique way of thinking
The Jews also have a unique way of thinking that other peoples do not have, and their way of thinking can be summarized in the following three characteristics: First, the spirit of questioning.
The skeptical spirit of the Jews can be said to be deeply rooted in the bones, they believe in God, but they dare to question the doctrine of the Bible, even God. Even less so for worldly truths.
(Marx)
In the Jewish conception, truth is not absolute, since Copernicus dared to question the geocentric theory and founded the heliocentric theory. Then the Jewish Einstein also dared to question Newton's classical mechanics, thus creating the general theory of relativity. Marx was also a Jew, and his theory of surplus value and class struggle ushered in a new era in human history.
Second, Jews believe that doing the hardest thing is the easiest thing. In the eyes of the Jews, neither science nor technology, nor ideology or business should be done as the easiest thing to do, because the result is easy but not competitive.
To do the hardest things for Jews is to be ingenious, and those things are sometimes not only difficult, but often associated with suffering. What they don't like to do the most is to copy and copy, even if they learn from other people's things, they don't like to copy it, but to transform and make breakthroughs.
(von Kármán)
Third, Jews have always sought innovation and even disruption. Jews can be said to have made pioneering and even epoch-making contributions in the fields of science, technology, thought and culture in the world. The great masters of Jewish nationality who have made outstanding contributions to the scientific culture of mankind can draw up a long list.
In addition to the aforementioned Marx and Einstein, there was von Kármán. Von Kármán was a great aerospace engineer, and he presided over the Caltech laboratory, the predecessor of the National Aeronautics and Astronautics Laboratory.
He pioneered the aerospace industry in the United States and led the trend of the world's aerospace industry, and even famous Chinese scientists Qian Xuesen, Qian Weichang, and Guo Yonghuai were his students.
Another example is Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, although the atomic bomb he invented has killed Japanese civilians and caused serious trouble to the world, but he is a pioneer in the field after all.
in Oppenheimer
Among the Jews are Edward Taylor, the father of the hydrogen bomb, von Neumann, the father of computers, Wiener, the father of cybernetics, Nils Bohr, the father of atomic physics... There are too many such masters. It is not uncommon for a nation to have some masters, but the emergence of so many masters like the Jewish people can only look for their roots in certain characteristics of the nation.
In business, Jews are even more outstanding, Google head Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Oracle founder Larry Ellison, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, Mobil Oil boss Davidson and so on are Jewish. Not only are they billionaires, but they have also pioneered unique fields and even changed the way we live.
Speaking of the rich, the world's 7 richest people, Jews account for 4; Of the world's top 400 super-richest people, Jews make up 60. And most importantly, 70% of global trade is controlled by Jews.
It can be said that the reason why the Jewish people have produced so many masters and rich people who have made pioneering contributions to mankind is that this nation has the character of innovative thinking.
(Sergey Brin)
Third, the Jews have a unique educational philosophy
Jews also have a unique philosophy of educating the next generation. Jews' education of the next generation begins in the fetal period. Jewish women prenatally teach the child in their belly during pregnancy, sing and play the piano for the fetus, and some even calculate math problems for the fetus. They believe that the mother's math problems will help the fetus become a genius in the future.
From early childhood, Jewish parents train their children to play the piano and violin, believing that this is not simply to develop their children's musical talents, but to improve their children's IQ and help them grow into geniuses.
Jewish parents pay special attention to their children's reading and pay attention to cultivating their children's reading habits, of course, parents themselves demand the same. When the child is just understanding, parents will open the Bible and drizzle honey on the page for the child to kiss, they will tell the child that books are sweet.
Jewish families have rich collections of books, and study rooms are the standard for their families.
(Jews cultivate children's reading habits)
Jewish middle school students tend to study science, and the school pays great attention to developing their hands-on ability, always encouraging them to make some products. Many of their ideas will even be recommended to universities or research institutes for discussion and demonstration of their feasibility.
Entering the university, the Department of Business is the most popular major. Business students are assigned to work on business projects in the last year before graduation, they are divided into small groups, and only if the group can generate $1 million in profits, they will be allowed to graduate.
It can be said that it is the unique education of the Jews that has cultivated so many innovative talents, even geniuses.
In people's eyes, Jews are smart, rich, and a little mysterious, in fact, if you go into the depths of the history and culture of this nation, it is not difficult to see its roots of intelligence and wealth.
(Jewish geniuses)
It can be said that it is precisely their national culture, thinking character and educational philosophy that have created this unique nation, and even the suffering they have suffered is the reason for their remarkable achievements.
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