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@JonKramer

Ethnic refers to groups with common cultures, which generally means tight knit German for example can refer to ethnic germans, racial germans, or people of German nationality.. in this case they clearly point out they are talking about ethinic germans (shared culture) not racial.

@LouisIngenthron

@JonKramer

Whether talking abpit race is important or not is questionable, doesnt change the fact that you were talking about race just trying to call it something its not. If your talking genetic insularity, you are talking about race. Science avoids race because its problematic, but it does recognize its a concept with some relevance (like determining prevelance to certain diseases).

@LouisIngenthron

@JonKramer

Your choice of words just lead to a bit of inaccuracy, easily addressed now that its clear what you meant.

@LouisIngenthron

@JonKramer

Better to use the word race then... what you are really asking is why are jews often considered a race and not just a religion?

I think its complicated.. a **lot** of jews have shared racial origins, but being a displaced people those origins are fuzzy.. whey have fled and integrated and thus have a much more diverse racial background than many. Its probably better to say they are a collection of races that become isolated and displaced so while still having a lot of racial commonality there is also a huge amount of racial diversity.

In short, Jews mostly refuse to give up their racial identity entierly despite being displaced since anctient times

@LouisIngenthron

@JonKramer

That link provides a definition which makes it clear it is cultural and not race (race is not listed).. it only provides a "usage note" pointing to race, doesnt say, at least at that link, that it is a synonym.

You also have to keep in mind you cant use synonyms to imply additional definitions.. synonyms often list words of similar but different definitions, they arent usually entierly interchangable. So even if it was listed as a synonym (sometyhing you will probably find in some thesaurus that istn a good way to determine word usage.)

@LouisIngenthron

@JonKramer

That wouldnt change anything.. ethnicity is just the noun form of ethnic, it still refers to culture not race.

@LouisIngenthron

@LouisIngenthron

I think most people erroneously think ethnic = race not culture.

@JonKramer

@JonKramer

It would seem its common among muslims as well.. I have often seen muslims as being referred to as an ethnic group as well.

@LouisIngenthron

@EubieDrew absolutely... feel free to submit a merge request on the site or suggest where you think it might be best to state that.

@EubieDrew Who? Fascists.. go for it.

@JonKramer

My understanding of "Semetic" is that it includes anyone who speaks a semetic language. So your ethnicity probably has little to do with it.

@LouisIngenthron