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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: White Israelite on July 22, 2008, 02:32:52 PM
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I am curious what everyones ethnic background is on the forums?
My mothers family is German/Austrian, she practices Judaism however (her family is Catholic)
My fathers family is Russian and Romanian background and Jewish.
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Father= German Jewish
Mother= Russian Jewish
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Father= German Jewish
Mother= Russian Jewish
I am still confused by the term German Jewish and Russian Jewish, does this imply that the person was from there but is not ethnically German or Russian for example?
Like a lot of people think I am a German Jew and I explain to them that my mother is not ethnically Jewish.
But then a lot of Russians say I do not look slavic or Russian, but a lot of people say my father looks Greek or mediterranean. So I am still a bit confused from this?
A fellow Jew explained it to me like this, that a white man can be a resident of China but will never be ethnically Chinese unless they mix with the Chinese population therefore having mixed Chinese/white offspring.
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Hmmmm...that's a good question...
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Hindu Indian (caste: Bunt, the most famous Bunt I can think of being Aishwarya Rai the Indian actress)
Vikram
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Father= German Jewish
Mother= Russian Jewish
I am still confused by the term German Jewish and Russian Jewish, does this imply that the person was from there but is not ethnically German or Russian for example?
Like a lot of people think I am a German Jew and I explain to them that my mother is not ethnically Jewish.
But then a lot of Russians say I do not look slavic or Russian, but a lot of people say my father looks Greek or mediterranean. So I am still a bit confused from this?
A fellow Jew explained it to me like this, that a white man can be a resident of China but will never be ethnically Chinese unless they mix with the Chinese population therefore having mixed Chinese/white offspring.
Personally, I feel that this is EXTREMELY important to distinguish because of several reasons:
1. I have a very German last name and if you didn't know any better, you'd think I wasn't Jewish.
2. I want to separate myself as much as possible from being associated with Germany's past as well as Russia's/USSR because of their antiSemitism past and present.
3. Also, I will never patronize Europe in any way!
But this is just me.
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German, Scottish, Irish, Russian, Native American (Iraquois I think).
Heinz 57....
:::D
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German, Scottish, Irish, Russian, Native American (Iraquois I think).
Heinz 57....
:::D
Hey Hanna, watch it with that "Heinz" talk especially in the ethnic background conversation. You might give off conontations that you don't wish to. ;)
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German, Scottish, Irish, Russian, Native American (Iraquois I think).
Heinz 57....
:::D
Portuguese Jewish & Scot on my moms side.
Native American Schnetady Iriquois on my dads side
100% AMERICAN
(http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg319/aa4pc/Israel--American-flags.jpg)
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Both my parents are Iranian Jews. I am American born though.
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Both my parents are Iranian Jews. I am American born though.
Lisa you must really be a knockout.
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O.K. here's what i'm pretty sure of Jews from Austria on my mothers grandparents side, Jews from Ukraine on my fathers parents side
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Im your typical Ukranian {fathers side} / Polish {Mothers side} mix...
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Both my parents are Iranian Jews. I am American born though.
Lisa you must really be a knockout.
You expressed my thoughts exactly Paulette... I had a Persian Girlfriend in Highschool. Unfortunately her family was Muslim {I didnt know at the time}. Of course that relationship never worked out...
muman613
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Lisa you must really be a knockout.
I don't know about being a knockout, but I don't think I'm ugly either.
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Hispanic.
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My father was a Muslim from Kenya and my mother was a white woman from Kansas.
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My father was a Muslim from Kenya and my mother was a white woman from Kansas.
Wow presidential candidate 2012? :::D
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My father was a Muslim from Kenya and my mother was a white woman from Kansas.
:::D :::D :::D :::D :::D
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Mother= Catholic Sicilian
Father= Catholic Italian and Cherokee
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As a general statement on this topic, I suspect strongly that most Jews resemble, both in appearance and name, the population of the countries they were originally from. There is no such thing as a "Jewish race", and there are many, many different Jewish ethnicities. German Jews are totally racially and ethnically separate from Sfardim/Mizrachim from Morocco or Ethiopia.
Only Nazis would ever claim that there is such a thing as a Jewish genotype or an organized Judaic ethnicity (not that anyone here did, but it's always useful to say as a reminder).
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As a general statement on this topic, I suspect strongly that most Jews resemble, both in appearance and name, the population of the countries they were originally from. There is no such thing as a "Jewish race", and there are many, many different Jewish ethnicities. German Jews are totally racially and ethnically separate from Sfardim/Mizrachim from Morocco or Ethiopia.
Only Nazis would ever claim that there is such a thing as a Jewish genotype or an organized Judaic ethnicity (not that anyone here did, but it's always useful to say as a reminder).
You are 100% right.
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As a general statement on this topic, I suspect strongly that most Jews resemble, both in appearance and name, the population of the countries they were originally from. There is no such thing as a "Jewish race", and there are many, many different Jewish ethnicities. German Jews are totally racially and ethnically separate from Sfardim/Mizrachim from Morocco or Ethiopia.
Only Nazis would ever claim that there is such a thing as a Jewish genotype or an organized Judaic ethnicity (not that anyone here did, but it's always useful to say as a reminder).
Actually there is DNA from Y chromosome (fathers side) that traces Jews to the original Israelites.
I am a Cohen which is in use in some European countries (Germany, Ireland) but most people associate Cohen as being a Jewish name.
All the Cohens I know have Jewish lineage of some sort.
There is also Y chromosomal Cohen Modal Haplotype
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Aaron
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My father was a Muslim from Kenya and my mother was a white woman from Kansas.
Wow presidential candidate 2012? :::D
You better not be talking about my Michelle! :::D :::D :::D
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oh, I finally get it.....
:::DMy father was a Muslim from Kenya and my mother was a white woman from Kansas.
:::D :::D :::D :::D :::D
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My father was a Muslim from Kenya and my mother was a white woman from Kansas.
Wow presidential candidate 2012? :::D
You better not be talking about my Michelle! :::D :::D :::D
Oops, I'm sorry! :'( Let me go on CNN and apologize immediately, because I don't want to offend you! O0 :::D
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100% Bukharian! And anyway most Jews (except converts ,etc.) Are connected both spiritually and genetically/ racially. Obviously living in different lands for 2,000 years changes one's appearance.
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I'm Jewish Sabar (Israeli born), my parents are both Sabars, my grandparents came from Germany, Hungary, Austria. Some people in my family may look more European (light hair, eyes and skin) but I look middle eastern, no one who sees me could guess where my family had lived in past generations.
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English, Irish, German and Georgian with a tinge of Baptist and some other stuff. Once a while back, I was walking down this road and like I was abducted by aliens, you know like the space kind and like I was injected with some kinda like DNA stuff...
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My father was a Muslim from Kenya and my mother was a white woman from Kansas.
Cool! Did you studied as a child in Indonesia?
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My father was Dutch/Sephardic and my mother (of blessed memory) was Ashkenazi from Poland.
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3/4 Russian
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Both my parents are Iranian Jews. I am American born though.
Lisa you must really be a knockout.
Yes Lisa is a beautiful woman, inside and out O0
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I'm Italian/Czech
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Yes Lisa is a beautiful woman, inside and out thumbsup
Why thank you, Vito!
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Both my parents are Iranian Jews. I am American born though.
Lisa you must really be a knockout.
Yes Lisa is a beautiful woman, inside and out O0
Thats what I thought Vito.
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Both my parents are Iranian Jews. I am American born though.
Around here, we still call you Persian Jews. I don't know why since it hasn't been Persia in quite some time.
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I am Russian-Jewish on both sides.
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Croatian ,Brasilian ,Ukrainian
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My father was a Muslim from Kenya and my mother was a white woman from Kansas.
Cool! Did you studied as a child in Indonesia?
Yes but I repeat, I was not raised a Muslim, not that there was anything wrong with that but I'm really not.
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See more information on this topic in this message...
http://jtf.org/forum_english/index.php?topic=23740.msg254815#msg254815
muman613
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100 percent American born with Italian parts
Mom Side- Napolitano
Dad Side - Calabresse
(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z244/jlb127/italian-1.jpg)
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100 percent American born with Italian parts
Mom Side- Napolitano
Dad Side - Calabresse
(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z244/jlb127/italian-1.jpg)
Which parts were made where exactly? :::D
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100 percent American born with Italian parts
Mom Side- Napolitano
Dad Side - Calabresse
(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z244/jlb127/italian-1.jpg)
Love that sign! O0
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100 percent American born with Italian parts
Mom Side- Napolitano
Dad Side - Calabresse
(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z244/jlb127/italian-1.jpg)
Which parts were made where exactly? :::D
Oh that was my parents doing a long time ago you taken biology figure it out
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100 percent American born with Italian parts
Mom Side- Napolitano
Dad Side - Calabresse
(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z244/jlb127/italian-1.jpg)
You color that yourself ;)
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Ethnically Romanian born in Yugoslavia(now Serbia).