> I grew up in an area that was 99+% white and 50+% Jewish.
That's logically impossible. You group in an area that was majority Jewish, and minority white.
That's logically impossible. You group in an area that was majority Jewish, and minority white.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18520421 and marked it off-topic.
To put it another way ~ he lived in an area that was approximately 50% Jewish white people, and 50% non-Jewish white people.
"White" is a skin colour, otherwise categorized as "race", which technically doesn't really exist anyways.
All that really exists is a diverse range of genetic differences, however, all humans can 100% interbreed without any issues.
To my understanding, Jew refers to both an ethnic group and a religion, so it can be confusing, but the ethnic group definitely can be referred to as a race (which going by most the common dictionary definitions of race generally includes geographic and ethnic grouping. I looked it up prior to my earlier comment to be sure).
It is possible to be non-religious or practice another religion and be ethnically Jewish, and it's possible to be another ethnicity and convert to Judaism.