...who have been kicked out of every country they have ever settled in so far except for the U.S.
Many Old World European Christian countries and almost every Muslim country. And in the old times, when there was no separation of church and state. Now nobody is kicking them out. Do keep in mind that they were also kicking out other Christian denominations or killing them and they had wars between different Christian sects as well as persecutions of heretics- anyone who was against the Church or who they thought did not follow their way of teaching. And we do not need to start on Islam and how they hated anyone who was not Muslim and it was either convert or die and many chose to convert by the way. This is how Egypt became Muslim. Millions of Christians had to convert. Most Jews did not, but many did also.
Jews were not kicked out of:
India
China
Latin America
Australia
New Zealand
Canada
or anywhere else outside of the present day Islamic world. Lots and lots of countries have them and keep them.
And they are living normal lives as citizens of these countries with very little resentment except again in Muslim countries. Outside of Saudi, Kuwait and Jordan, etc, there is no problem as a rule.
So, this "having been kicked out of every country" thing is not exact and needs to be kept within the context of time/place.
The people start to develop certain mechanisms for survival and pursue occupations that give greater control of the system that is always trying to persecute them for mostly religious and social reasons.
And racial/genetic reasons.
Naturally those individuals would go into finance, law, and media because those are obvious the doorways that lead into the halls of power in the world.
and also because other occupations leading to success were closed to them.
Your average Ashkenazi Jew has also become smarter than the global average based on the emphasis on good breeding, high academic standards, and healthy living environment in the past 50 years.
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I am also amazed how an average American simply cannot see Jewish facial features and cannot tell Jews from other groups. And as the population dumbed down, so did the Jews rise to all these positions of power.
And also keep in mind that now they cannot discriminate by race but they used to back in the old days. No one would hire an Asian engineer in the 1930ies or allow them to have any business outside of a laundromat. And for a Jew to get a job in the 1950ies as an engineer was impossible. Also, they were not welcome in many good neighborhoods because they were for white people and not for the Semitic race. Such was the reason expressly given. Barely 20 years later, Jews, who used to be marked as Hebrews in censuses, disappeared from them, became "white", started writing in documents that they were of Russian and Polish ancestry * Levine, Katz and Goldberg are not Russian or Polish name, but what would an average American know) and declared that Jewish was not a race but a religion. The dumbed-down American public swallowed it hook line and sinker.
As far as the financial power:
Here are the 10 biggest banks in the world
1 BNP Paribas
France
2,669,906
12/31/10
2 Deutsche Bank
Germany
2,546,272
12/31/10
3 HSBC Holdings
United Kingdom
2,454,689
12/31/10
4 Barclays United Kingdom 2,331,943 12/31/10
5 The Royal Bank of Scotland Group United Kingdom 2,275,479 12/31/10
6 Bank of America United States 2,268,347 12/31/10
7 Crédit Agricole France 2,129,248 12/31/10
8 JPMorgan Chase United States 2,117,605 12/31/10
9 Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) China 2,032,131 12/31/10
10 Citigroup United States 1,913,902 12/31/10
Hmm, how many of these are run by Jews?
Michel Pébereau (Chairman of BNP Paribas) does not sound Jewish to me.
Josef Akcermann who graduated from a St Helen University is not Jewish either.
Douglas Flint and
Stuart Gulliver of HSBC do not sound Jewish to me
Bank of America was started by Italian immigrants, not Jews. And the heads are Brian Moynihan and Charles Holiday. Some Jews these are.
Stuart Hester of Royal Bank of Scotland is Jewish? I don't think so.
Yeah, maybe this one is the Jewish one?
And the head of CITICORs is Vikram Pandit, from India. A Hindu!
Most bankers are Jewish? Hmm, seems like not.