>>216106909 (OP) >Again, the situation of Chinese entrepreneurial minorities in Southeast Asia is remarkably similar. Walter Zenner, a professor of anthropology and Judaic studies at the State University of New York, Albany, wrote that "Jews and excommunicated Christians provided loans in mediaeval Christendom, while Chinese were the lenders among the Muslims of Indonesia, Malaysia and elsewhere." Scholars have tried to understand the Jewish and Chinese diasporas from either an economic or a cultural perspective. In my view, economic and cultural aspects are not immune to one another, but economic behaviour as a special kind of human behaviour is often determined or over-determined by culture and tradition. Indeed, if we consider the important role of culture and tradition, it would not seem so surprising that Jewish and Chinese diaspora communities have behaved very much alike and have very much the same kind of success in finance and commerce