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General opinion for decades has been the Ferengi are specifically anti-Semitic stereotypes rather than generic Mediterranean-area stereotypes.
by VLM 6y ago
General opinion for decades has been the Ferengi are specifically anti-Semitic stereotypes rather than generic Mediterranean-area stereotypes.
- mjlee 6y agoAs a Jew, I always just considered them space goblins...
- YeGoblynQueenne 6y agoSo did I.
- throw0101a 6y ago> In America, people ask 'Do the Ferengi represent Jews?' In England, they ask 'Do the Ferengi represent the Irish?' In Australia, they ask if the Ferengi represent the Chinese[…] The Ferengi represent the outcast… it's the person who lives among us that we don't fully understand.[19] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferengi#Comparisons_with_anti-Semitic_stereotypes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferengi#Comparisons_with_anti-... Or you could view them as the anthropomorphization of the vice of greed or stinginess/miserliness/parsimony.
- mmmmmk 6y agoI forgot where I read it, but I believe Roddenberry modeled the Ferengi after New England traders in the 1800's.
- kd0amg 6y agoThis is stated directly in the episode that introduced them.