Mapping income vs religion

[Matt Collins]

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[ChaosControl]

Time to become a Jewish Hindu.

[Reason]

sometimes stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason lol jews

[BamaFanNKy]

Next Rand Paul Money Bomb promotion video on Youtube needs this song:
YouTube - "dus bahane" Bollywood Hindi Music Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZJqetPb2AQ)

[squarepusher]

wow those Hindu's know how to rake it in

[Matt Collins]

Next Rand Paul Money Bomb promotion video on Youtube needs this song:[/URL]This one is better:

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bAN7Ts0xBo]YouTube - Tunak Tunak Tun (Best Copy) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZJqetPb2AQ)

[dannno]

This one is better:

YouTube - Tunak Tunak Tun (Best Copy) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bAN7Ts0xBo)

LOL, that was one of the first videos I ever watched on the interwebz!

[brandon]

pic too small cant see

[Minlawc]

Measuring statistics by religion can be very inaccurate. Catholics are born Catholic, Muslims are born Muslim, Jews are born Jews. Some "Christians" are Universalists and Mormons seem to also call themselves "Christians".

[slothman]

Theoretically you are born a religion but conversion is so previlent(sp) that it doesn't matter.
Is this list based on what people say they are or what they are born into?

[TheEvilDetector]

IMO, religion itself doesn't make you richer or poorer.

This is correlation not causation in my opinion, therefore mere act of switching religions is unlikely to have a meaningful financial impact.
(ie. reading from a different book, believing in a different tale, going to a different building etc)

However, on the other hand I could be wrong, perhaps various levels of averaged out encouragement regarding charitable giving and striving for material posessions between various religions do have a statistically significant effect, but that would have to be measured before any conclusions could be drawn.

[1000-points-of-fright]

Theoretically you are born a religion but conversion is so previlent(sp) that it doesn't matter.
In reality, you are born with nothing but a survival instinct which as an infant is just hunger. You learn religion just like everything else.

[noxagol]

I think the hindus are up there since most come from India and most people that come here from India are highly skilled people such as doctors and engineers.

[TheEvilDetector]

I think the hindus are up there since most come from India and most people that come here from India are highly skilled people such as doctors and engineers.

It may be the case of that when averaged out members of certain religions possess traits that make it easier for them to earn more money than members of other religions.

To confirm such assumptions scientfiic studies would need to be carried out. However such studies would face what I believe to be insurmountable hurdles to getting carried out.

Since the study focuses on groups, tribal instincts of involved groups would make the process and the aftermath difficult.

[BlackTerrel]

I think the hindus are up there since most come from India and most people that come here from India are highly skilled people such as doctors and engineers.

Indians are an example for how hard work can get you places. I always use the example of my Indian friends when I go back to my "hood" and black friends tell me how hard it is to get ahead in this white world.

I'm in my twenty's. Most Indians that I know were born here and I went to college with. The majority of them had parents that came from India with almost nothing - no skills and can barely speak the language. People in the community gave them a few bucks to help them out and some guidance. Usually their parents went into low skilled business jobs where you don't need an education but can still make good money (motels, subway franchises etc..) You have upfront fixed costs and then keep your variable costs very low. They are rarely rich but are generally middle class to above.

With their kids they stress education like crazy. Check out any Med School in the country or go to Stanford University and about 1/4 of the people are Indians (most of them born in the US). Check out Google or Facebook and over 1/3 are Indian. One of the biggest VC's (Khosla Ventures) is Indian. I could go on - they run ish here in Silicon Valley for a people that didn't even exist in this country 50 years ago.

I'm not basing this on any statistics just what I see. They work hard they get ahead. It's the American dream. I give them a lot of respect for it.

[sofia]

50% of billionairres are jewish

[Matt Collins]

I think the hindus are up there since most come from India and most people that come here from India are highly skilled people such as doctors and engineers.
Many people from that part of the world look down on workers and look up to merchants and business owners. They also have strong family values. That's why so many of them over here own motels, own gas stations, etc. They don't want to work for someone, their families pool their resources, own their own business, get it paid off, and then share the wealth amongst their family. Very smart.

Likewise there is also something to be said for the American protestant work ethic too. Brink Lindsey has written about it in his book Age of Abundance (an excellent read by the way).


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[__27__]

Did you ever stop to think that a religion that stresses personal responsibility and hard work would probably have people who are more personally responsible and harder working? And that maybe as a result they'd on average make more money than your average sheep who just wants to sit on the couch and get a check for it from the government?

And on the Catholics, perhaps one would consider the mandated self sacrifice. The idea of community to them being far more important than individual finances.

[idiom]

Correlation/Causation fallacy.