On Jan 30, 2010, at 8:55 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
> The same reason white people aren't black people and Navahos are not
> Italians. Social convention grafted onto heritage.
>
> Jews in Russia do not consider themselves to be Russians, and vice
> versa, and would look at you funny if you said they were. Russians
> are a Slavic people. Russian Jews came in from Spain, and until
> around 1945 (important date, that) tended to speak a completely
> different language.
>
> I'm pretty sure that most Jews in Germany and France do not consider
> themselves to be German or French, either, or didn't until quite
> recently.
Those Jews, rootless cosmopolitans, eh?