Question: They say that when mobile telephone communication appeared, Israel ranked first  in terms of conversation activity. Not because there was a need to communicate, but simply by talking to each other.

Answer: Yes, Israelis like to chat no less than others. Of course, they cannot be compared to Italians or Spaniards. There are probably statistics about which nation in the world is the most talkative.

As for communication, technology, and all these things, a person has a very acute sense of needing them. This gives him the opportunity to be more connected with the world and with the world view, and not just to be shut within himself, but to be more open.

As before, people were accused of excessive openness, cosmopolitanism. The word “cosmopolitan” was considered a curse—a worldly man.

In Stalin’s time, cosmopolitans referred to Jews. This is partly true since, while Gypsies and other national minorities (as other nations surrounding Russia were then called) have something of their own that they steeped in, the Jews always strived to have common ties all over the world. Therefore, the word “cosmopolitan” suits them.

I think that the development of communication and the desire for technology that connects people is, in principle, part of their internal national culture. It is because the whole Jewish culture is fixated on the common connection of everyone and everything, on the need to see the world as common.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. The Most Talkative Nation” 23/6/13

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