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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
Re: Mutt
It's nice to see someone is educated and can cite actual history for a change on GFY.
If you refuse to assimilate, then you reap what you sow. There is no one to blame but yourself for your choices, and the buck stops there. Sadly, this is human nature. Add in, as Mutt referenced, the "chosen people" yoke, and you start to see most of this "hatred" (i.e. people do not like jews) is because of their own doing. Much like what is going on today, in regards to how they choose to deal with Arabs and Palestinians.
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um ....... if the Jews had wanted to assimilate they wouldn't have been welcomed. We have the Amish/Mennonite communities here, they maintain their religious and cultural traditions and practices, they don't wish to assimilate but they do business with secular modern people and are polite. This is how Jews I think lived in Europe.
In the 18th and 19th centuries European Jews began to assimilate and developed secular interests.
Poland was the promised land for Jews, it was the least anti-semitic country in Europe, why the Jewish population of Poland grew to over 3 million by 1939. Those who doubt that 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust make up lies, the population of 3.2 million pre-war Jews is fact, Poland wasn't some third world country, they had census records - at the end of the war there were only 200,000 Jews of Polish nationality left, not like they could have slipped away anywhere, they were penniless. The Germans and Russians slaughtered as many non-military Poles as the number of Jews killed, 3 million.