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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That Jews are not considered white. I was born in the hood and actually never knew anyone Jewish or at least no one that said “I’m Jewish” until I was about 38 years old. I wasn’t  educated on the anything about Jewish culture or even the Holocaust. I never understood why Jews would say they were discriminated against, because to me they looked white. I was really ignorant to all things Jewish until my then 7 year old DD starting learning about it the Holocaust in school. I felt pretty stupid. But it was never anything I was taught about.[/quote]

Jewish people are white, or can be.  Who knows, maybe I am still ignorant of this but I don't think so. [/quote]

I think this is one of the ways in which race is a social construct in the US. A Black/Hispanic person from “the hood,” as OP puts it, probably sees Jews as white. The same as she’d see white people of other religions and/or ethnic backgrounds.[b] On the other hand, a white Christian person from a Midwestern small town might not see Jews as white[/b].[/quote]

I'm a white protestant from the deep south, and I have never heard anything in regards to Jews not being white.  They might be seen as "ethnic", but they are certainly considered white. [/quote]

Jews are considered white now. We didn't used to be. Just like Italians and Irish used to be considered of lower status. Can't tell you how many books from the early 1900s I've read that described Italians as "swarthy" and not in a good way.

A lot changed after about 1960. [/quote]

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