
Originally Posted by
DarkHelmet82
Jews are an ethnoreligious group and include those born Jewish and converts to Judaism .An ethnoreligious group (or ethno-religious group) is an ethnic group of people whose members are also unified by a common religious background. Ethnoreligious communities define their ethnic identity neither exclusively by ancestral heritage nor simply by religious affiliation, but often through a combination of both (a long shared history; a cultural tradition of its own; either a common geographical origin, or descent from a small number of common ancestors; a common language, not necessarily peculiar to the group; a common literature peculiar to the group; a common religion different from that of neighbouring groups; being a minority or being an oppressed or a dominant group within a larger community).
Examples of ethnic groups defined by ancestral religions are the Jews, the Druze of the Levant, the Copts of Egypt, the Yazidi of northern Iraq, and the Zoroastrians of Iran and India. The Sikhs in India, although a proselytizing religion, are usually considered an ethnic group, with the state of Haryana created in 1966 so Sikhs could be a majority in their own state of Punjab.
LOL, you just corrected (contradicted?) yourself. It doesn't say anything in there about jew being interchangeable with israeli. There are plenty of ethnic jews in Canada, a interesting genetic subset in Quebec, actually.
Ethnicity is related to genetics. Read (and understand) the link I posted to OMIM.
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