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NO. Jews consider Non-Jews to be humans who are simply not Jews. While there are verses in the Talmud that can be taken out of context to appear that Jews consider Non-Jews to be lesser, no current Jew expresses that attitude. The closest that you may find to this is that more religious Jews tend to be more communicative with other Jews than Non-Jews as they do not see Non-Jews as needing to know the specifics of Jewish belief.
It is worth noting that many non-Jews (as well as less-educated Jews) misunderstand the concept of "chosen-ness". It is not a statement of ethnic superiority in the vein of the ubermensch or "White Pride". The Jewish understanding is that the Jewish people were charged with a distinct mission/task that the rest of the world was not assigned and this is to elevate the spiritual character of the world. This charge is very similar to that which monks and nuns take on in Catholicism and nobody chastises them for this act because we understand the hardship that comes out of that level of dedication. Jews are compelled to be so dedicated. That's it. Jews do not claim non-Jews to be inferior, unimportant, unworthy or lacking full rights in this life, or even unworthy of entering "the good place" after death. They, in fact, advocate exactly the opposite (that non-Jews are equal, critical, worthy of rights, have a reserved place in the "good place" after death provided they are good people).
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Another more pop-culturally modern version of this idea of "chosen-ness" is the idea of the "Fellowship of the Ring" in the "Lord of the Rings". The members of the Fellowship are in no way superior or better than the rest of the inhabitants of Middle Earth, they just have a specific task to which they have been assigned and upon which the entire world depends. People outside the Fellowship are more than capable of helping this mission, and some of them (like King Theoden of Rohan and Faramir of Gondor) certainly do. It is just that the onus of responsibility lies on the Fellowship.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 9y agoOn the contrary, it is the Jewish Torah which contains the teaching that every human being is in the divine image (Genesis ch.5).
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