Because the Jewish people are a people, have been one for thousands of years, have spent much of that time being driven out of one place after another.
What do you think about this idea? The USA is probably one of the greatest enemies of the continued existence of what you call "the Jewish people".
The USA is the great integrator and melting pot of various peoples, regardless of ethnicity, skin color or religion. Inter marriage is becoming more common, especially in the past 40 years as discrimination generally has declined, and as a result more and more Jews marry outside their "people". I don't know why this hasn't occurred in the 1000s of years that the Jews have been wandering the planet, but probably because most previous cultures were highly discriminatory so it was generally frowned upon. As America gets closer and closer to a society blind to race/ethnicity/religion, an ongoing process, but it is certainly ongoing, the likelihood that the bloodline of ANY group remains pure (in America) declines. I know lots of American Jewish people in their 30's and 40's that are married to non-Jews, and eventually their descendants are more likely to consider themselves just humans, and not Jewish humans. Some racist Jews in America will be inclined to marry only other Jews, but over time that group will become less and less. When a 20 year old American Jew has 100 prospective American mates to choose from, and by the numbers only 1 of those 100 are American Jews, you've got to expect the choice of mate more and more to include the 99 non-Jews. The natural result is that the American people become a mix of whatever, and Judaeism becomes a religion (at least in America) not the "nation" that you consider it today. This affect has already happened with the descendants of former Germans, Italians, and etc in America. Many of them are Americans of Italian-Swedish-Brazilian-Philippino heritage, and frankly, they could care less. Once someone becomes a 3rd generation American, their ancestory becomes less and less important. As time goes on American Jews that are only willing to marry other Jews will be, generally, considered racist Americans.
So, in 200-300 years, America will absorb all its now Jewish people, and convert them into Americans who happened to be descendants of Jews, as Paula Abdul happens to be a descendant of Syrians (in other words, who cares?).
This seems inevitable to me, and I consider it a good thing. In general I think things that separate human beings make us worse as a population, and things that bring us together make us better as a population. However, phrased in a negative way one result of America, the melting pot, will be (in America at least) to "wipe the Jewish nation off the map". It won't be a forced wipe; rather, it will be a selection made by the Jewish people themselves to inter-marry and have their descendants become American citizens first, and the descendants of Jews second.
That's just something I've thought about - I don't mean it to be offensive to you, just a topic for discussion. If Michael90210 reads this, I've got you on ignore, if you flame me with your expletives, I'm not going to read them :-) |
