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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there are three different aspects of being Jewish. Culture, ethnicity and religion. They don’t necessarily overlap but they definitely exist. You can be a convert, identify as Jewish and be of totally different ancestry. Or you and your family can be Jewish for thousand years and you identify as atheist, [/quote]
Agreed.. but "Jew"  is not a race. Just as there are ethnic Germans, Poles and Dutch, there are ethnic Jews. But as a race, they are all considered white.

So Jews are not a racial group; ethnic, yes, but not racial.[/quote]

Anthropologists consider "ethnic" as also a very problematic category.   Take your example above.  Dutch people had, historically, a language and culture that shaded gradually into that of northern Germany, which in turn shaded gradually into that of south Germany.  "Dutch" culture is the product of the emergence of the Burgundian and later the Netherlands state from about 1450.   Yet, of course, all those areas had individuals who arrived from elsewhere, and brought their genes and their cultures.

We should be very wary of using even "ethnic group" in a way that implies some kind of racial homogeneity, and forgets the roots of cultural divisions in the needs of states. [/quote]

Sure, but studies have shown Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews have remarkable genetic homogeneity.

Also, PP: I am Jewish, not alt right. I am proud of my Jewish ethnicity and claim it, regardless of the fact that anti-Semites have exploited it to try to exterminate my grandparents and other relatives.

We are strong and proud and reject your attempts to deny our ethnic identity.[/quote]

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