by chiggerbit » Sat Mar 18, 2006 2:26 pm
A Jewish friend of mine assures me that Jewish kids ARE raised to know about money and how to make money work to earn money, that it is a typical topic of discussion at the dinner table and part of what Jewish parents impart to their children just as they do morals, language, etc. Now, I have no way of knowing how accurate this observation is, but if it is true of the typical Jewish family, then it would appear to show that handling money is something that can be taught.<br><br>Now, what I CAN speak to is how I was raised in the midwest, where I was taught that in order to get ahead in the world, you worked hard, as in physical labor kind of work, and that achievement and success should be measured by how hard a worker a person is. So, if my family was typical of my culture, can you imagine how unsettling it must be for these people to learn that no matter how hard they work, they can still be "failures", that the money institutions will always win, no matter what? So, when the bank is taking their home, they blame the bank, not their own parents, who never taught them how to make money work for them. <br><br>And when "my" people see that many news organizations are owned by Jews, they sit back and bitch about how the Jews control the news, instead of starting up their own news organizations. When my daughter was three, and she broke something, her answer was always, "A burgler did it." It would appear that whenever Jewish culture does well financially and the Christian culture doesn't, the Christian culture loves to blame their failure on the Jews. <br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 3/18/06 11:31 am<br></i>