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Sorry, Matilda.
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Man, I say this a lot and I know it comes across standoffish, but... US ethnic categorizations seem bonkers to me.
What does "half Jewish half Irish" even mean? Isn't that a Jewish person from Ireland? That would count as fully both things. What are the other two halves?
This is why I have to think about the immigration form for ten minutes each time I get through customs in the US, it's all "was any of your grandparents a smurf?" and "are you latino and/or lactose intolerant?" and stuff like that. It makes no sense.
One parent is Irish and the other is Jewish.
Or one parent was Irish and Jewish and the other was french and atheist
If it’s the mother then they are Jewish, if it’s the father they are not
I didn't know the genes for Judaism were located in the X chromosome.
That’s how they view it
This comes from the religious law. I don’t think it has anything to do with chromosomes. There are still families that traditionally believe that though, despite not being religious. I haven’t met many people who identify as Jewish or partially Jewish due to their father being Jewish though.
You can be raised by one Jewish parent and one Other parent and still not be a follower of Judaism. You might still have a Jewish cultural heritage and place in the world despite differing theological views.
So what are the religion and nationality of the other parents and why don't they count?
Jewish is also an ethnicity. That’s why they can be ‘secular’ while still being half Jewish.
In this context Jewish is the ethnicity, Mara actually calls it out in the tweet
In this context Jewish is an ethnicity. Please go look this stuff up
Jews have lived in exile for so long that it created a genetically distinct ethnicity.
Jewish in this context refers to an ethnic group, as does Irish
Yo. Pro tip: Judaism is the religion. Jewish is the ethnicity. A quick search would have told you that.
Judaism is the noun. Jewish is the adjective. A quick education would have told you that.