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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My grandparents were ALL Ashkenazi Jews.

Genetic studies have shown about 40% of the ancestors of Ashkenazi Jews were gentiles from Sardinia, Corsica, Northern Italy, and Southern France.

Should I take pride in Sardinia?   In the achievements of Genoa?

That is absurd.

First and foremost, take pride in your own achievements. Not borrowed glory.

But if you must take pride in a group, take pride in one whose values, traditions, you DO something to preserve and advance.

I am proud of the secular aspects of Jewish culture.  Things my actual grandparents participated in, as they did not in the achievements of Northern Italy.    In Jewish humor, in Yiddish poetry, in turn of the century Jewish political activism.   In secular Zionist ideology.  And yes, in the relgious civilization of the Jews - in Talmud and Midrash, in piyyutim, in the ornate structure of halacha, in the philosophy of Rambam and the visions of mystics and niggunim of the hasids.

But I do not take pride in my chromosomes.  Which I did nothing to earn.  [/quote]

Literal much? Jeez.

OF COURSE I don’t take pride in my chromosomes. I take pride in what they represent, which is a connection to my ancestors, of whom I’m proud. Just like you. [/quote]

Are you proud of your Sardinian and Ligurian ancestors?   I am not proud of mine.   I am proud of the ancestors whose lives I try to extend by living out their culture and their faith.  [/quote]

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