The Chinese picked up many modern Western ideas from the Japanese. Perhaps this is how Jewish conspiracy theories were passed on as well. But Southeast Asians are not immune to this kind of nonsense either. Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamed has said that “the Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them.” And a recent article in a leading business magazine in The Philippines explained how Jews had always controlled the countries they lived in, including the US today.
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The Anti-Defamation League said Tuesday that a survey it commissioned found nearly a third of Europeans polled blame Jews for the global economic meltdown and that a greater number think Jews have too much power in the business world… The poll included interviews with 3,500 people - 500 each in Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Spain. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/897216.html