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Why do sociologists consider Jewish Americans to be an ethnic group?

Anonymous

∙ 13y ago

Updated: 11/13/2022

Jews are a distinct ethnic group just like Italians, blacks, Arabs, ect. All Jews from different countries are more related to each other then to their neighbors (DNA tests prove that). Some people can convert to Judaism and are concidered Jewish, but ethnically they arent.

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