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**xiaoselangone** · 02-21-2009, 08:36 PM

Jewish isn't so much an ethnicity as it is a religion. You can become a Jew but you can't become an ethnic Italian.

I guess Jews do have some ethnic aspects, because the Romans exiled the Israelis from their homeland, yet the Jews managed for 2,000 years to maintain their identities and didn't melt into the local populations, like, say, the Vandals and Visigoths did.

02-21-2009, 08:36 PM	#4
xiaoselangone Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 542 Senior Member	Jewish isn't so much an ethnicity as it is a religion. You can become a Jew but you can't become an ethnic Italian. I guess Jews do have some ethnic aspects, because the Romans exiled the Israelis from their homeland, yet the Jews managed for 2,000 years to maintain their identities and didn't melt into the local populations, like, say, the Vandals and Visigoths did.
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