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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To this blog owner. I'm very sorry you had to go through this. It sounds terrible. Obviously the people you encountered were extremely racist. Not just towards jews but toward anyone who was not like them including blacks. Do you really think that a person like myself who attended school with half jews and then went on to college that had 1/3 jews and joined a sorority of half jews is going to be as racist as the people you described? How would I even live my life? I've mentioned several times that I still have many friends who are jewish and so far have not called you a name despite being hurled accusations. Also, at the end you seem to suggest that because the school isn't diverse, it's probably this school is still racist. So you are judging whether a school is racist or not by how diverse the school is and saying that since there are so many whites, it's probable that they will be discriminatory. Can you not imagine the reverse where there is a school of mostly jew, black, Asian, or Spanish where the majority picks on the minority? Are these groups not able to be discriminatory? Of course they can be. That is all I'm saying happened to me[b] and because I didn't see a strong tie between these people I was wondering why they were so hung up on being together all the time.[/b]

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I bolded the above because therein, in my opinion, lies the flaw in the way you are looking at this.  I do think Jews have a shared cultural identity, akin to Asians having a shared cultural identity, and that it is based on a lot more than just combating anti-semitism or banding together to avoid being eliminated or whatever.  Almost all of my parents' friends (aside from those they met through their jobs) are Jewish.  Neither my parents nor their friends are atheists, but they are not particularly religious and it is not the practice of judiasm that brings them together.  They just get each other and speak each others language.  They have similar definitions of success and similar ideas about family.  They have similar ideas about what is rude or polite.  They have similar ideas about dealing with their emotions.  Heck, they have similar ideas about how much food to serve at a party.  And all sorts of other things that add up to make them similar culturally.  Just because you didn't "see the tie" doesn't mean it is not there.  I think non-religious WASPs are similar culturally too.

That being said, of course my parents and their friends don't "pick on" non-Jews.  That type of behavior is something more than simply choosing to befriend and spend time with people with a similar culture, and that is of course repugnant.    [/quote]

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