Hey everyone, I'd love to get your opinion here.
My genes say I am 100% Askenazi Jew.
Question: Am I white?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I would ask why an answer is important to you, then state "I don't believe anyone is 100% anything."
JustAskMe
Level 6
Apr 4, 2020
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Most of us aren't even a hundred percent homo sapien sapien. We are all hominids though.
@Beowulfsfriend Glad I found you on reply. I spent 6 weeks in Israel and after the first week I din not have a problem in my mind that Jesus was a dark skinned mediterranean. Now there are some mentions of him in History but very few and I am not talking Biblical History, Miracles, Last Suppers and or the events of the Crucifixion and Resurrection. What was the last Miracle you have seen documented.?
@Nevermind345 What on earth are you talking about? How does this stay on topic?
Is this a question to level faster?
I truly dislike the whole color thing. I'm Brazilian with all my descendants from Europe- mainly Germany, Italy and some lost in Portugal, Spain, France and Austria.
When I say I am Brazilian, people label me as "not white".... lol
All about labels...
Zoohome
Level 8
Apr 3, 2020
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Ask-a-Nazi. 
BestWithoutGods
Level 8
Apr 3, 2020
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Face-to-face, he better have a weapon. "I hate Illinois Nazis."
@Beowulfsfriend I disapprove of Nazis anywhere.
@BestWithoutGods I do too. Just a quote from an old film.
Who cares? Unless you're looking for an answer that gives you superior status which is perhaps in your head already. We're all human beings. That matters most to me than to figure our your bronze-ness or your white-ness!
TimeOutForMe
Level 8
Apr 3, 2020
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All, All of us, have DNA of the first people to inhabit the Earth. They originated in a part of South Africa, were black, and we all have them as ancestors. The genome project hosted by National Geographic, and read Spencer Wells.
dalefvictor
Level 8
Apr 3, 2020
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Do you FEEL white today? Perhaps you are racially fluid... 
lonenonbeliever
Level 4
Apr 3, 2020
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Nobody is 100%. No group of people on this planet is so isolated (except maybe that one island tribe in the Indian Ocean) that interbreeding has not gone on. All humans carry the genes of every other human group that has ever lived.
That is why biologically we do not have a genetic marker for race in our genome. Race is a purely cultural phenomenon in humans. Differences in the amount of, and degree of melanin is solely a factor of natural selection and adaptation to a specific UV concentration.
t1nick
Level 8
Apr 2, 2020
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We are all fucking imbreed!!!
Their are no pure anything on this planet!!!
Everything is Tainted on this planet!!!
of-the-mountain
Level 9
Apr 2, 2020
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Why does it matter?
LenHazell53
Level 9
Apr 2, 2020
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By the way @DavidSilverman are you sure you mean Askenazi? Askenazi is a family name from Northern Europe, Ashkenazi were and are a Yiddish speaking people originating from what today is known as Germany whose descendants make up the vast majority of today's Hebrew peoples.
I have wondered since childhood why people who are white sit in the sun or pay to go under lights to get a tan. This makes no sense.
dalefvictor
Level 8
Apr 5, 2020
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I checked "white" because that is what I think current society indicates. But there are too many complications here. The term "Jewish race" confuses because some people only see race as color and so "Jewish", which is a different term than "white" leads them to think someone of the "Jewish race" is not "white". I realize that you did not use the term race, but "white" is a term to describe race.
After all that, I will say that I think it matters less about what arbitrary color category one belongs in and more about what tribe to which one belongs. Don't get me started on the ridiculousness of the continued use of an outdated notion of race.
itsmedammit
Level 8
Apr 4, 2020
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My mom was a Great Dane, and my dad was a Chihiuahua.
He stood on a chair.
davknight
Level 8
Apr 4, 2020
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Yep, I can see your mom in your bone structure.
BTW, Askhenazis only have about 3% of the genes of the ancient Jews. Most are descended from the Khazars, a nation in the Caucasus that converted en mass to Judaism. That's most likely why you are white.
Krish55
Level 8
Apr 3, 2020
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That is a talking point by antisemitic groups so you shouldn't espouse it. European Jews are white. Although I reject everything about the Jewish religion I don't reject people and I don't consider Jews a race.
The Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry, often called the "Khazar myth" by its critics,[1]: 369[2]: VIII[3] is the hypothesis that Ashkenazi Jews are in large part descended from the Khazars, a multi-ethnic conglomerate of Turkic peoples who formed a semi-nomadic Khanate in and around the northern and central Caucasus and Pontic-Caspian steppe. The hypothesis draws on some medieval sources such as the Khazar Correspondence, according to which at some point in the 8thā9th centuries, the ruling elite of the Khazars was said by Judah Halevi and Abraham ibn Daud to have converted to Rabbinic Judaism.[4] The scope of the conversion within the Khazar Khanate remains uncertain: the evidence used to tie the Ashkenazi communities to the Khazars is meager and subject to conflicting interpretations.[5][6]
Genetic studies on Jews have found no substantive evidence of a Khazar origin among Ashkenazi Jews, but have found evidence they have mixed Near Eastern/Mediterranean and Southern European origins.[7][6][8] As per Wikipedia.
@barjoe The Khazar descent was popularized by Arthur Koestler, a famous Jewish writer. Just because anti-Semites have taken it up doesn't make it invalid. [amazon.com]
@Krish55 I know. The Thirteenth Tribe, written beginning of the 20th century. Yes the fact that Nazis take up this theory does make it invalid. If you choose to justify using it because Koestler was a Jew. Go ahead. It's a white supremacist talking point. I just want to inform others who read of that fact. You have every right to promote this if you like.
@barjoe How did this become a white supremacist talking point? The Khazar lineage claims European Jews are not Semitic. Doesn't this then take away any basis for the supremacist anti-Semitic hatred of Jews? Jews would then be seen as just as any other Europeans from the Caucasus area. Seriously, I really don't understand how the Khazar lineage supports Aryan supremacy.
Iām not sure, mmm who should I ask? Lols. All the best 
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Apr 2, 2020
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