You don't make sense. I say culture is an influence, and then you say that I am wrong because culture is an influence?????...
What do you mean Jews in Eurooe are considered an 'out group?' I am Jewish and have lived in multiple countries in Europe.
There are 15 million Jews in the world. Half of them live in the USA. Where do you get 16%?
Jews flourish wherever you put them - nothing to do with being given special opportunities. My late father (holocaust survi or) arrived jn South Africa with the clothes on his back. He was very successful in multiple fields - despite being in a country that did not welcome Jews.
Are you aware that part of German tax still goes to the Roman Catholic church? Did you k ow that the vatican allied with Hitler? Dud you know that Jews only came out of ghettoes in Germany 40 or 50 years earlier?
My opinion is supported by other scholars.