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“Jewish people are white though” Say what now?
by leephillips 5y ago
“Jewish people are white though”
Say what now?
- woodruffw 5y agoI'm not 100% sure what GP meant, but it's true that there are Jews who are white (I'm one.)
- beaconstudios 5y agoI meant that most people would say that most Jewish Americans are white. Given the US racial categories, it's the one that most Jewish people in the US fit into. Of course, racial categories are made up anyway, but some people seem to care about these things.
- woodruffw 5y agoYeah, I'd agree with that. There are lots of non-white Jews out there, but average American interaction with Judaism has probably been through Ashkenazi Jews. Ironically, the Sephardic and North African Jews that I know are more likely to self-identify as nonwhite, but are probably still counted as white by the US Census. Goes to your point about made-up categories!
- leephillips 5y ago“A are B” is not usually taken to mean “some As can be Bs”.
- beaconstudios 5y agoI was assuming the context that we're talking about the US. Did you immediately think of Ethiopian Jews when I said Jewish people?