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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eh.... as a Jew I find this kind of thing par for the course. It's inappropriate but I would know it wasn't badly meant, just stupidly put[/quote]

+1[/quote]

+2 and I'm not even stereotypically Jewish looking. (People always say "wait, you're Jewish!?") People say stupid stuff, but if it's kindly meant, that's the main thing.[/quote]
? Isn't that f'ed up? [b]Why wouldn't it be kind to say you look Jewish[/b]? [/quote]

Well, maybe it's neutral rather than unkind, but often people saying "oh you don't look Jewish" mean "oh you don't have a huge nose" or some other unflattering thing - frizzy dark hair, etc. It's also just ignorant because although, as a Jew, I admit that there is a Jewish "look" that some Jews have, Jews really do come in all shapes and sizes. I'm a blonde haired, blue eyed Jew - i'm often asked if I'm Russian, actually, so there's always a stereotype somewhere. (My grandparents did come from Russia (and Poland) but of course in those countries would not have been considered ethnically Russian, but Jewish.)[/quote]

PP you're quoting and I didn't mean it would be kind or unkind to say one looks Jewish or not -- just that I would not necessarily read anything insulting into it either way. People can be awkward without meaning to be. I am frequently asked if I am Scottish, Irish, English, etc. I have fair/rosy skin, green eyes, light brown hair that is wavy but not curly or frizzy. Small nose. Average height, not skinny. I could be "anything" really (of Caucasian ancestry anyway) and no one ever guesses Jewish. My ancestry is also Eastern European (Russia, Poland, Hungary) but no one guesses those either![/quote]

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