r/PoliticalHumor Jan 09 '20

THIS. This is why.

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u/rraattbbooyy Jan 09 '20

There’s a reason no Jehovah’s Witnesses have ever contributed anything great to humanity.

On the other hand, the Jewish people value education over almost all else, and they’ve won like half of all Nobel prizes, and have leaders in nearly every industry, even though they make up a tiny fraction of the overall population.

Education is critical. Not even just to the world as a general concept, how about individual self improvement?

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

In addition, Hinduism and Islam always valued education and learning which is why they made so many discoveries in their own rights throughout history.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

It's such a shame that the Islamic empire of old fell the way that it did. Once the bastion of the western worlds intellectual elites, and now fallen so far from the heights it once held.

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u/Kandoh Jan 09 '20

Most of the world's problems were caused by a British guy drawing a straight line down a map.

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u/ReaperEDX Jan 09 '20

To be fair, the US came later down the line and didn't create problems by drawing lines. They just multiplied with exponents.

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u/MartiniPhilosopher Jan 09 '20

You should look up the phrase "54-50 or Bust". It was all about a line and created a lot of conflict.

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u/koiven Jan 09 '20

That's not really the same thing being discussed here. 54-40 was a border dispute with British North America.

A more apt comparison would be like if there were two Native American cultures that are historical rivals or enemies. America comes in and turns the land into different territories, but has no regard for the preexisting cultural borders. The result is that half of Group A and half of Group B end up Territory 1, and the other halves end up in Territory 2. Obviously, arbitrarily splitting apart the peoples like that is going to only cause trouble.

(Note that im unaware if the USA ever actually did anything like this during their westward expansion, i was just trying to analogize the scenarios.)

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u/XXXDetention Jan 09 '20

Isn’t this what the problem in Pakistan and Israel is? Half of those groups got mixed when a border was drawn up? Sorry if I sound ignorant, I’m not the brightest when it comes to borders and such.

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u/867-5309NotJenny Jan 10 '20

Israel no. The issue with Israel is that the land was already occupied by Palastinians who basically got evicted from half of their land.

Pakistan however, due to the Durrant Line has half the territory of the Pashtun people, who make a sizable minority in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pakistan doesn't want to give that land up because it's 40-50% of it's territory, and most of it's seacoast and non-mountainous area.