The Jews, the Germans, the Chinese, the Italians, Africans and just about everyone else.
I would suggest that is inappropriate phrasing. If you're going to use words such as Germans, Chinese, Italians, than Jews is not an appropriate segmentation. If you want use the word Jews, than use similar segmentations such as Catholics, Protestents, Quakers, agnostics, atheists... IMO, you're not doing any favors to persons of the Jewish faith by segmenting Jews, with Germans, Chinese, Italians...etc. When immigrants became naturalized, they didn't disavow their faith, they disavowed their allegience to country of origin.
America became a great nation, primary because we valued freedom
Sounds good. I think you would be hard pressed to prove it.
...but also because we welcomed the best and brightest from the rest of the world.
Did we filter the Irish immigrants of the Great Potato famine by their IQ? We welcomed slaves; I don't think it was because they were the best and brightest. The largest immigration occurred between ~1880-1920. They were welcomed because we needed low wage labor during the main industrialization period for the US.
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