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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (237254)	7/20/2007 10:12:49 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Regarding assimilation and indigenousness of a people, I have lived closed to several exclusive communities in various countries. Two examples include the Mennonites of Waterloo region in Ontario and Parsies of India. In every case, as exclusive as the community has tried to be, after several generations they have assimilated enough of the local culture and evolved their own new ways that we can consider them indigenous to that land. It just cannot be any other way because these immigrants are always a very small minority and have to interface with the host society at large. The interactions inevitably rub off. We can also see that over the long term, immigrants of the same origin to different countries become very different from each other. An example could be the Ashkenazim Jews and the Persian Jews. Each is more like the society they live in than each other. But let's assume that you are right and that somehow Jews managed to keep it all together over thousands of years and never become indigenous to the countries they live in. Wouldn't that then justify the garden variety historical antisemitism that you often complain about? After all, why should a society put a bunch of foreigners who refuse to join it in a substantial way on equal footing with the natives? On a totally different note, Nadine, you have a nasty habit of stating what you presume other people's position is on a subject instead of asking them what their position is. Do you believe you are omniscient?