[WikiEN-l] Category:Jews -> Category:Jewsih people

[Cool Cat]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/11/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at 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 at 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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