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For an extreme example of how pro-Semitism can come about within anindividual merely through genes alone, consider me. Although I'm Catholic, Ibecame very pro-Semitic at the age of 13 when my powers of logic kicked in(and my hair turned curly). I quickly noticed that a high percentage of thethinkers I either agreed with (e.g., Milton Friedman) or whom I considered ita worthy challenge to argue against were Jєωιѕн. Since I was adopted, a fewyears later I concluded that it was likely that I was half-Jєωιѕнbiologically, (which indeed appears to be the case based on evidence my wifedug up when I was 30). It's important to understand the chain of causation:having a very Jєωιѕн-style brain (e.g., enjoying logical argument), I soughtout the best logical arguers to read, very many of whom were Jєωιѕн. (You mayobject that my political views today don't sound much like those of themajority of American Jews, but I was enormously influenced by Jєωιѕнneoconservatives in the 1970s and 1980s. Having gone to some lengths toexpose myself to Jєωιѕн thinkers (not because they were Jєωιѕн per se, butbecause those who most stimulated my kind of mind more than writers fromother ethnic groups), I absorbed from them a lot of typically Jєωιѕнpolitical stances: e.g., pro-Israel and pro-immigration.Now, my pro-Semitism came about even though I was being raised in my(adoptive) family, which has no Jєωιѕн relatives, and, in fact, has a slightanti-Semitic mindset. (I realize my case is only a single data point, so Irecommend somebody conduct a formal adoption study of Jews and part-Jewsadopted by gentile families.) In the future, however, most children of the IQelite will have Jews in their extended relatives, which will make my kind ofpro-Semitism even more widespread in the future.Steve Sailerhttp://members.aol.com/steveslr