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To: Elroy who wrote (256830)	2/17/2008 1:33:36 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

In the modern world, where Jewish people live amongst everyone else and intermarry and attend the same schools and Jewish kids play with non-Jewish kids all the time, it's a religion, no more, no less. My friend born of a Jewish mother has never done diddly squat religious in his life as far as I know, so what would make him a part of any Jewish ethnic group? Birth certainly doesn't do it. But culture does. The way you're raised does. Your values do. What makes anyone part of any ethnic group? Look, you seem to have some self-imposed mental block about the word "Jewish". For some reason, in your head, one word cannot refer to both an ethnicity and a religion. So lets substitute some other ethnic identity: In the modern world, where Serbian people live amongst everyone else and intermarry and attend the same schools and Serbian kids play with non-Serbian kids all the time, it's an Orthodox religious identity, no more, no less. Do you see that this might not be true? Serbs can and do carry a strong cultural identity (we certainly saw that in the 1990s). People who don't like Serbs will also not pause to inquire if someone is a 'real' 'tribal' self-segregated Serb before disliking him either.