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Totally disagree. I've been around both groups, and I've found East Asians completely different from Jews, probably more different from them than non Jewish whites are. Sure you can cherry pick some superficial similarities, but the differences are profound. Asians can certainly have a collectivist and ethnocentric nature, but its very different from Jews, and unlike Jews I've generally found these tendencies disappear fairly quickly when they are minorities in European societies. Like maybe a couple generations.

By contrast Jews have been minorities in European societies for centuries and it only seems to make their ethnocentrism stronger. Asians also seem to have an ingrained desire to avoid conflict, not bring attention to themselves and not cause trouble that couldn't be more different from what you tend to see with Jews. Jews are famously whiney and neurotic. Asians are the exact opposite. They tend to be extremely stoic and have a shrug it off and just deal with it mentality.