Aren't all secular Jews an example?
But Judaism is sorta an ethnicity as well as a religion.
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Trudy Booth - Dec 07, 2005 11:19:55 am PST #8411 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Jen - Dec 07, 2005 11:21:04 am PST #8412 of 10003
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
Good point, Trudy. I was conflating ethnicity and culture in my mind.
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2005 11:21:27 am PST #8413 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Aren't all secular Jews an example?
If Judaism is something that can be conferred on someone by birth only then I don't think it's the same.
beth b - Dec 07, 2005 11:22:55 am PST #8414 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I claim my ethingc background - or cultural background, more accurately, is WASP. Living in fremont,ca - where that is not a majority - might make it clear why I ID as I do.
but now, I have to go to work. stooopid protestant work ethic.
Emily - Dec 07, 2005 11:27:47 am PST #8415 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
The WAS part is ethnic. It's just the P that's not.
erikaj - Dec 07, 2005 11:29:10 am PST #8416 of 10003
Always Anti-fascist!
Hec, want me to kick her butt? It won't be as definitive as an ita asskick, but quite memorable, nonetheless.
Steph L. - Dec 07, 2005 11:31:27 am PST #8417 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I was conflating ethnicity and culture in my mind.
The WAS part is ethnic. It's just the P that's not.
Didn't we have a discussion a while back about the terms "ethnicity" vs. "race"? I had an argument with chatty!co-worker because he referred to fundie Christians as an ethnic group. I said they weren't; he said they were, citing the Webster definition of "ethnic": "Of or relating to a sizable group of people sharing a common and distinctive racial, national, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage," emphasizing the "religious" part of that definition.
I still feel like he's wrong, but I can't articulate why, and it's very frustrating.
amych - Dec 07, 2005 11:32:16 am PST #8418 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I think the P part is just as ethnic as the WAS.
(edit: x-post with Tep. Odd.)
Stephanie - Dec 07, 2005 11:32:39 am PST #8419 of 10003
Trust my rage
To me, ethnicity isn't something you chose. It's what you *are*.
eta: That was in ref to Step]. Thank Ellie for the weird spacing=.
brenda m - Dec 07, 2005 11:36:30 am PST #8420 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I'd call the AS ethnic, except that I think anything distinctively AS is hundreds of years lost. It's something new now that's not really expressed by those words. And really what it's getting at is more (ancestrally) European non-Latin non-Catholics. Which doesn't exactly trip off the tongue.