Don't expect rationality from Americans - UPDATED | 113 comments (113 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Well, I'm a self-expressive elitist... (4.00 / 2)

as far as Israel goes, I'd speculate that the values they largely reflect derive from the split from the areas of Eastern Europe where most settlers came from a century ago

Such as... Catholic Poland?

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Apr 20th, 2009 at 04:00:03 AM EST
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Re: Well, I'm a self-expressive elitist... (4.00 / 3)

Well I'm dubious of any servey that finds Israel more rational than Spain.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Apr 20th, 2009 at 07:58:37 AM EST
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Re: Well, I'm a self-expressive elitist... (none / 0)

Actually, the cultural map shows Spain, Israel and Croatia as nearest neighbours of each other, presumably within error bounds...

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Apr 20th, 2009 at 09:29:33 AM EST
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Re: Well, I'm a self-expressive elitist... (none / 0)

In fact the geographical origin of immigrants to Israel is very heterogeneous, with an important contribution by Jews from Muslim countries: the Ottoman Empire, Yemen, North Africa, Iran, Iraq. See Wikipedia: Aliyah

You're clearly a dangerous pinko commie pragmatist.

by Vagulus on Tue Apr 21st, 2009 at 08:28:40 AM EST
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Don't expect rationality from Americans - UPDATED | 113 comments (113 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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