This actually points out the real problem rather well. Categorization should
be done carefully. Mixing religion with ethnicity is just asking for trouble
in categorization.
- Cool Cat
On 2/12/07, jayjg <jayjg99(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/11/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
Yonatan Horan wrote:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews#Specific_diseases
>
>I suggest you look at that. In addition to that, I remember seeing some
>research papers published on Ashkenazi Jews and will look for them if
you
>really see the need. Just to support the
above point, my cousin who is
an
>Ashkenazi Jew has Familial Dysautonomy and my
other cousin who is also
an
>Ashkenazi Jew has Crohn's Disease.
>
>-Yonatan
>
>On 2/9/07, Mets501 <mets501wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>>Jewish is not only a religion but also a race. Someone can be an
atheist and
>>>
>>>
>>>still Jewish. For example, I personally don't really believe in god
but I'm
>>>
>>>
>>>still a Jew.
>>>
>>>Yonatan
>>>
>>>
>>Judaism is not a race. There is nothing biologically which separates
a
>Jew(ish person) from a non-Jew(ish person).
>It is OK to call it a culture, but not a race.
>--Mets501
>
I respectfully hold that treating Jews as a race is fraught with
problems. The epidemiological evidence cited may very well suggest
racial characteristics among the Ashykenazim, but that says nothing
about the Sephardim. To what extent do they share the same congenital
diseases? I would even suggest that Ashkenazim and Sephardim are
racially more different than Catholics and Protestants.
You'd be wrong, though.
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/97/12/6769
Jay.
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