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Sleazy Car Salesman said:
>what did the Romans think of the Jews?

I don't know if I could tell you specifically but I'm sure it's probably not too far removed from what the vast majority of everyone else who's ever interacted with the Jews has thought of them.
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Apparently the Chinese didn't mind the jews to much.
 
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Sleazy Car Salesman said:
They're pretty jewish themselves.
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That's because they admire the Jews and want to emulate them and their financially successful stereotypes.

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Liang Qichao, an influential revolutionary thinker of the time, took a tour of the United States and saw Jews as “the most powerful and influential group among the immigrants in America. I heard that four tenths of the American banks are Jewish, and more than half the bankers in America are Jewish…In this respect, no other races can compare with the Jews,” he wrote. Of course, he may have picked up that Jews were powerful and rich in the United States from an anti-Semitic comment, but like many other Chinese of the time, he did not see these stereotypes as negative, but looked upon them with curiosity.
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Essentially they became Jewaboos/Judaphiles because they liked how they still dominated everything while being persecuted (that's the conclusion they drew from what was said about them anyway). This was happening as the Chinese were busy coping with the fact that the Western powers slammed their empire into the ground and their cultural arrogance didn't do them any favors when the country failed to modernize.
 
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Breadbassket said:
That's because they admire the Jews and want to emulate them and their financially successful stereotypes.

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Essentially they became Jewaboos because they liked how they still dominated everything while being persecuted. This was happening as the Chinese were busy coping with the fact that the Western powers slammed their empire into the ground and their cultural arrogance didn't do them any favors when the country failed to modernize.
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It even goes back to the Kaifang Jews who were pretty prominent in the local mandrinate which is impressive.
 
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Breadbassket said:
Essentially they became Jewaboos/Judaphiles because they liked how they still dominated everything while being persecuted (that's the conclusion they drew from what was said about them anyway). This was happening as the Chinese were busy coping with the fact that the Western powers slammed their empire into the ground and their cultural arrogance didn't do them any favors when the country failed to modernize.
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JJLiautaud said:
It even goes back to the Kaifang Jews who were pretty prominent in the local mandrinate which is impressive.
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Yeah there were Jews in China via the Silk Road that settled well before the European empires showed up
 
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I searched this thread for one of my favorite channels and am surprised not see them mentioned here.

History Dose is a channel who's narrator pays his brother to make handmade art and backgrounds for the edits, at least in the modern videos where the production value sky-fucking-rocketed compared to the old stuff. Some of the video thumbnails, mostly the older ones, are clickbaity but they do deliver on the hook that reeled you in... usually. There are a couple duds but as I said, the newer videos are easily the best ones.

My favorites of their catalogue are The Mongol Destruction of the Khwarazmian Empire, Henry Every: The Brutal King of the Pirates, The Samurai vs. Conquistador Battles, and Harald Hardrada: Ruthless Viking Mercenary.

I eagerly await being informed by this lovely thread that my taste is shit and or this channel has committed some absolute faggotry I am unaware of... but in all honestly I hope the latter isn't the case.
 
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Bass_Ackdwars said:
History Dose is a channel who's narrator pays his brother to make handmade art and backgrounds for the edits, at least in the modern videos where the production value sky-fucking-rocketed compared to the old stuff. Some of the video thumbnails, mostly the older ones, are clickbaity but they do deliver on the hook that reeled you in... usually. There are a couple duds but as I said, the newer videos are easily the best ones.
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You are ABSOLUTELY right about that guy's channel. I've looked at a few of that guy's videos, and they're really well done. I think the best part for me is that he actually cites historical sources in the description when a lot of history channels don't do that.
 
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PyrrhicRustle said:
All these pop history and science videos are like this. The comments are all people saying they wish school taught this way, and that schools never teach any of the things in the videos. When in reality, either schools do (in theory) teach exactly that and they weren't paying attention, or it's interesting but ultimately useless trivia that would be an even bigger waste of time than school already is.
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At a certain point it gets dumb. Kids spend 6-7 hours a day in school. Probably not enough time to learn 9th century West African economic history.
 
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Chuck Gruden said:

Rageaholic made a video on Abraham Lincoln and how he's a big tyrant.

I think his Libertarianism is influencing his views a bit too much.
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He's really not wrong though, a lot of the federal overreach we're seeing today can trace it's roots back to the precedent set by Abe's expansions of federal power in order to fight his war. I'm not saying the CSA was justified or anything but I would agree that Abe opened a serious can of worms with his response to it.
 
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