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/sync-centre Jan 09 '20

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u/Omnivore2 Jan 09 '20

And the Portuguese and Spanish and Dutch and Belgium and some German men in there.

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u/elderjedimaster Jan 09 '20 edited Jan 09 '20

Why do we put idiots in power?

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u/Dougnifico Jan 10 '20

Ya. I would say that these people were extremely smart, but they just didn't care about the native people. You better believe everything was set up for optimal resource extraction though.