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"Jewish" is a religion. "White" is a skin colour, otherwise categorized as "race", which technically doesn't really exist anyways. All that really exists is a
by Valmar 8y ago
"Jewish" is a religion.
"White" is a skin colour, otherwise categorized as "race", which technically doesn't really exist anyways.
All that really exists is a diverse range of genetic differences, however, all humans can 100% interbreed without any issues.
- amaccuish 8y agoI think this is pedantic. By your way of thinking, there is no racism, because we are all one race. The words are used to mean different things, with lots of historical connotations to boot. They are not so narrowly defined in respect to humans. Whilst you're correct biologically, language is a little more nuanced.
- kbenson 8y agoJewish is also an ethnicity. There are even specific subsets of jews that have different health issues.[1] To my understanding, Jew refers to both an ethnic group and a religion, so it can be confusing, but the ethnic group definitely can be referred to as a race (which going by most the common dictionary definitions of race generally includes geographic and ethnic grouping. I looked it up prior to my earlier comment to be sure). It is possible to be non-religious or practice another religion and be ethnically Jewish, and it's possible to be another ethnicity and convert to Judaism. 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_genetics_of_Jews https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_genetics_of_Jews
- Armisael16 8y agoIs 'French' a race then?