"Herman Rubin" <hrubin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article <3fmd04dpgcupke9uieeerg0dsuddjnsvkq@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Eli Grubman <eli.grubman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:55:14 -0700 (PDT), HHW
>><coaster132000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>On Apr 16, 12:33am, Eli Grubman <eli.grub...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:45:40 -0700 (PDT), jgarbuz
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>>>> <jgar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> >On Apr 15, 9:18 pm, Eli Grubman <eli.grub...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> >> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:55:23 -0700 (PDT),jgarbuz
>
>>>> >> <jgar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> >> >On Apr 15, 3:27 pm, Eli Grubman <eli.grub...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>>>> >> >> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:07:37 GMT, flav...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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>>>> >> >> >On 15-Apr-2008, g...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Graz) wrote:
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> ...............
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>>>Ethnicity is cultural, not racial
>
>>No, it is based on genetics/heredity and develops cultural attributes.
>>It is determined at birth, not acquired.
>
> Somewhat yes, but mostly no.
Wrong. It's genetics.
>
>>>> >She has cut herself off from her Celtic roots to become an
Israelite.
>
>>>> No, she hasn't. She still refers to herself as "Irish".
>
>>>> >She changed tribes. These days people even can change genders. Can
you
>>>> >still call a man who has been operated on and turned into a woman a
>>>> >man nonetheless?
>
>>>> No, a gelding. Certainly not a "woman".
>
>>>> >Her DNA is still Irish, but she has changed tribes
>>>> >and married a Jew, and her childen will be Jews under Jewish law -
>
>>>> No, half-Jewish under the laws of heredity, which overrule "Jewish
>>>> law".
>
>>>> >unless they choose to leave the tribe by converting back to the
faith
>>>> >of different tribes.
>
>>>> Their ethnicity will remain unchanged by any ****ft in religion.
>
>>>If an Irish child is taken at birth to an Orthodox Jewish home and is
>>>raised there knowing no other family, will he/she not be ethnically
>>>Jewish?
>
>>Culturally Jewish, perhaps, but certainly not ethnically Jewish. It
>>will stand out like a sore thumb among ethnic Jews.
>
> This is definitely NOT the case, and it is not the case
> in Judaism. One cannot change inheritance, but little
> of behavior is inherited.
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> Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
> hrubin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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