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**Metrujectiktus** · 09-14-2010, 12:10 AM

Well in that sense, if we throw genetics out I guess Judaism can be considered as a culture, this culture can create the ethnicity over time if the group remains to itself without a lot of mixing.

IMO there is no major Jewish culture, which is why Israel has become quite the garbage platter Dean said earlier on as different Jewish sub-cultures disintegrate. Despite the nomadic history of different Jewish groups, with such mixing interactions with people, i believe this is how much of their culture has emerged. They have obviously borrowed ideas, but put their own spin to it. Not to mention . . . Contributing partially like other minorities also to the culture of Europe. (LOL Maranno's invented Fish and Chips!) Take for example the philosopher Spinoza and other past poets, musicians and people in the arts/entertainment sectors. Ladino is a language unique to Sephardi Jews, as Yiddish is to the Ashkenazim, with both also following Hebrew as the universal language of the Jews. They have their own cuisine, the Sephardim being mostly 'mediterranean' similiar to southern Italian if i remember reading somewhere, whilst the Ashkenazim have their own Matzah balls and other more renowned dishes. Ofcourse different styles of music influenced heavily by their geographic regions and the hosts present. You see these are all cultural facets they developed without isolation but mild intermingling with others. There is no doubt such thing as cultural distinctions between Jewish groups. It would be ignorant to think Jews come from an uncultured background. More proof here again that they qualify for an ethnic group just like any other stateless person.

Is there anyway in which being Assyrian is a more valid ethnicity than say a sub-Jewish ethnicity? I would like to know, because i personally see both as legit ethnicities frankly.

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Metrujectiktus Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 394 Senior Member	Well in that sense, if we throw genetics out I guess Judaism can be considered as a culture, this culture can create the ethnicity over time if the group remains to itself without a lot of mixing. IMO there is no major Jewish culture, which is why Israel has become quite the garbage platter Dean said earlier on as different Jewish sub-cultures disintegrate. Despite the nomadic history of different Jewish groups, with such mixing interactions with people, i believe this is how much of their culture has emerged. They have obviously borrowed ideas, but put their own spin to it. Not to mention . . . Contributing partially like other minorities also to the culture of Europe. (LOL Maranno's invented Fish and Chips!) Take for example the philosopher Spinoza and other past poets, musicians and people in the arts/entertainment sectors. Ladino is a language unique to Sephardi Jews, as Yiddish is to the Ashkenazim, with both also following Hebrew as the universal language of the Jews. They have their own cuisine, the Sephardim being mostly 'mediterranean' similiar to southern Italian if i remember reading somewhere, whilst the Ashkenazim have their own Matzah balls and other more renowned dishes. Ofcourse different styles of music influenced heavily by their geographic regions and the hosts present. You see these are all cultural facets they developed without isolation but mild intermingling with others. There is no doubt such thing as cultural distinctions between Jewish groups. It would be ignorant to think Jews come from an uncultured background. More proof here again that they qualify for an ethnic group just like any other stateless person. Is there anyway in which being Assyrian is a more valid ethnicity than say a sub-Jewish ethnicity? I would like to know, because i personally see both as legit ethnicities frankly.
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