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Why aren't Ethiopian Jews or Mizrahi famous and influential? Where are their world-bending billionaires or Nobel Prize winning scientists? Only the Jews of Europe are so prominent, and that's more because they are Europeans, than because they are Jews. Europeans in general are extremely powerful and influential in most of modern history; and Ashkenazi as well (to a lesser extent, Sephardics), because they are a subset of Europeans. Ashkenazi are a group of Europeans who generally have more wealth, education, low time preference, and ambition than their Christian European counterparts. It's really Europeans who are the world-movers, but not all equally. English moved the world more than Latvians did. If you compare Jewish Europeans to all non-Jewish Europeans, of course it looks like the Jews were more influential. The vast majority of Christian Europeans are descended from peasants, and retain the same unambitious peasant aspirations. Ashkenazi were less likely to be peasants; and overrepresented as merchants, bankers, theologians (rabbi), etc. If you compare European Jews, to Christian Europeans of a similar caste (merchants, tradesmen, priests); they probably have similar stats in terms of power and influence. If you compare them to the aristocracy, the Christian European aristocrats clearly are the ones with the most influence per capita.