ahmedinajad

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The Jews have NEVER been a race.

Jews WERE a people,a cultural and religious group.

Ok. Wikipedia is really a wonderfull source of knowledge although only in a "readers diggest" style.

How very patronising.

I do not use Wiki as a prime scholarly source,but find its information accurate enough for an internet forum..

My views on race and culture are derived from my university studies towards my degree in cultural anthropology. I use both terms advisedly.


It seems we have very different understandings of the word "'culture". Many Jews identify as part of a cultural group.Indeed there are people called "cultural Jews",to distinguish them from religious Jews. There are also many people who are Jewish by birth but do not live as Jews in any way. I know some (The grandfather of one of these people was the first rabbi in this city)


Judaism has not been a single identifiable culture for several centuries. A pedantic argument could be made that they were not so even in the C1st CE (ever heard of "The Samaritans"?)

For an Anthropologist,the word "Jewish" is as useful as a cultural description as as the word
"Christian".