Okay, let me rephrase: instead of "a world religion", use "the dominant religion pretty much any place they lived in".
Well, accuracy is nice, better than the overstatement initially offered.
Oh. And since they put up with it, it means they were not the victims of it?
Your words, not mine, and you really, really, missed the point.
As I pointed out, it was a successful survival strategy, putting up with all that second class citizen stuff -- where the alternative may well have been extinction of a culture. As I said, I tip my cap. Likewise to the Basques.
Seen any Goths lately, Chaos, as in the Goths Caeser would recognize?
The victim issue is an appeal to emotion, so, waaah effing waaah.
Being, well, "asked" to "borrow" money to whoever it was that ruled whatever place they lived in, knowing perfectly well (whether it was explicitly stated or not) that compliance with such "requests" was the only thing keeping the ruler from simply confiscating what they owned and killing or expelled them.
I see, and no other peoples were so put upon? Is that your wheeze here? You will note that the Jews, once again, did a decent job of turning a burden into a virtue with long term positive outcomes: see the wealthy Rothschild family for a superb example of taking lemons, and making some fine lemonade. You, on the other hand, are merely whinging.
Unless you are even dumber than you are pretending, you know exactly who I am pretending to.
I am tweaking your nose for both gross overstatement and whinging, and appealing to the cult of the victim. Lame, it is.
Just trying to be nice. Rare, I know.
How about you prove that "hyperbole" thing by showing me either that these things did not happen to the jews, or that there are other groups who had the same things happen to them?
Actually, you are the careless one who pretends it didn't happen to others. What the others, see the Goths mentioned above, didn't do was hold on to their culture, they tended to assimilate.
The price for non assimilation, it seems, is to stand out as the other, historically. That can attract all kinds of crappy attention. The Basques trod a bit of a middle ground there, the Amerinds who chose not to assimilate sure as hell stand out, and so on.
But hey, you demand special victim status for a people who, by putting up with a lot of crap, are still a reasonably cohesive cultural group. How about you stop with the whinging? You attitude sucks. Look at how many other peoples over the centuries did NOT pull that off.
Druids. Saxons in England. Ibero-Celts. The Karankawa.
Rather than whinge about the troubles those folks went through, how about you tip a cap for pulling off the cultural coup they managed?
And I´m not even waiting for chillzero to actually explain why my post earns her oh-so-righteous condemnation.
Might have been the whinging.
ETA: if you have been following the news, the Chaldean Christians in Iraq, who have had to put up with over a millenium of second class citizen crap, also known by some as Dhimitude(spelling may be off here) in relation to Islam, the dominant religion, are at significant risk of being ethnically cleansed from Iraq. We'll see how that plays out. See also the risks to the Syriac Christians, and the crap the Coptic christians of Egypt, an ancient cultural group, are putting up with in re modern Islamist spite and malice. You also seem to ignore the Armenians, but then, they do have a place to call home, which the Jews didn't for a long while, due to getting their asses kicked by the Romans back in the day.
History is not kind to losers.
The Chaldeans' Achilles Heel, for the moment, is that unlike the Jewish diaspora, they don't have as robust an international network of places to run to as the Jews developed over the centuries. Even more ironic is that this allegeldy Christianophile president of the US has not offered to the Chaldeans anything like the support the Viet Namese boat people got in the 70's when our wars there did such damage to Vietnamese social stability.
