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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Elroy who wrote (219807)2/21/2007 1:59:08 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
You can't have it both ways - one can either convert to Judaeism, or not. And if you can have converts, Jews are not an ethnic group.


That's completely muddle-headed. There is no contradiction involved because Judaism is both a religion and an ethnicity. You can convert to the religion and you can learn the rituals, but it is not so easy to change your basic ethnicity from whatever you were to Jewish. There is a whole outlook on the world involved.

Let's look at a different conversion. Suppose a white American woman married a Japanese man from a traditional family. She learns Japanese, she learns the customs and rituals of the various seasons, she learns how to fit in, and her in-laws accept her. Is it racist of them to observe that she can never truly become Japanese?
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