<p>Manhattan, how do you tell a jewish person from a caucasian person?</p>
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<p>To make a distinction so what I say after makes sense:</p>
<p>Being Jewish could be:
A) Ethnic [Ashkenazi, Sephardic, etc or more modern lineage of Jewish descent]
B) Religious (Someone who practices the religion called Judaism in one of its varying forms [Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform])
C) Most commonly, both A & B. But you could be A or B, or more one than the other.</p>
<p>People who are ethnically Jewish - most commonly Ashkenazi in America - have very distinct features as a result of being a closed gene pool and experienced more acute hereditary selection as a result of centuries of persecution in Europe.</p>
<p>Modern Americans who have a mostly un-interrupted lineage to this group of people are distinct, although not overwhelmingly so, from other European ethnic groups. The most common distinctive features would be black/brown curly hair, large ears and noses and hips [women only], pale skin, and prominent eyes. It isn’t universal, and the differences between other European ethnic groups is definitely less of a leap than say, European to Hispanic, but most Jews or people who live around a lot of Jews (like, New Yorkers) can usually identify a Jewish person when they see one, and they would usually be right. It is kind of like how most Americans could not differentiate between the differences between all of the Asian ethnic groups [hell, nationalities], but it is very clear to people within those groups.</p>
<p>I’m only half ethnically-Jewish, so it isn’t obvious to people who first meet me that I am Jewish.</p>
<p>must resist a jewish joke</p>
<p>We all enjoy good jokes.</p>
<p>It wouldn’t be that good honestly… just an overused stereotype. I’d rather not risk another “infraction” :/</p>
<p>How many do you have? I think I have 3. 2 are Orson-related.</p>
<p>By the way, where is that guy?</p>
<p>3 infractions, 4 points total but they all expired :D</p>
<p>And remember how I was joking that Orson would die from his rapid weight loss? Maybe… maybe I was right :O</p>
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<p>Now The Bronx can repave the sidewalks that have taken the 300lb abuse all of these years. Maybe the South Bronx will rise into a new era of prosperity now that people can conduct business without falling into one of his elephant holes.</p>
<p>The Bronx will rise again?</p>
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<p>That’s what I originally wrote, but I thought it would be better to lay off offending Southerners for awhile.</p>