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@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/11/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@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@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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