Good point. I know people from many cultures, and I observed the same thing - that in some cultures, amongst which is the Jewish, education is prioritized highly. As for the people I know from Iran, whom are all doctors, lawyers, engineers and economists. That is the reason that you see a - as you state it - disproportionate number of Jews in government and finance ... and science and a whole lot of other professions. I do however think this disproportion is not the case for every financial and governmental institution in the world, although it might (or might not?) be so in the US of A. The funny thing about these people with pack mentality is the ability to ignore that most people in these institution, by numbers, are white Christians. As in "look at that evil people in that government, they are mostly Christians! - they must all be evil". But your idea about mirroring - I think that is a good point. One which is very often the case in a lot of situations where you confront someone with negative thing on their mind. Psychologically it often makes sense understand that the trait they have problems with stems from themselves. On another note - this is just a point for discussion I guess - I hear this notion of paper money, or FIAT, being backed by nothing, and in the next breath people will then claim that cryptographic 'money' is the solution to that - when in fact 'crypto' is backed by the same nothingness - or in other words, both only have value because there is trust that it represents a valid tender. I think the development is fascinating, although I think that a lot of people have this black/white world view that somehow one is bad and the other one isn't. Anyway - I'll throw an up-vote your way for the excellent and very true point that blaming a whole group of people for something that an individual is doing, is wrong and dangerous.