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To: skinowski who wrote (219737)9/14/2007 10:40:47 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 793866
 
Furthermore, other groups, such as the Gypsies, have been persecuted for centuries without developing elevated intelligence. Considered closely, the winnowing-by-persecution logic is not as compelling as it may first appear.

Really? Aren't Gypsies known for cunning? The difference may be not so much the push that enhances quick-wittedness, but the direction that quick-wittedness takes. In a group that has limited education and doesn't greatly value book learning, quick-wittedness takes forms that others call "shrewdness," "cunning," "trickery" or "thieving." It seems to me that all these names get pretty regularly applied to both the Jews and the Gypsies. If the group does value learning and members routinely reach elite positions, then you can begin piling on the conspiracy theories. jmho
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