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It's a complicated question. Government forms, for instance, often don't recognize "Jewish" as its own category and instead the closest category would be "white" (a category that also pulls in Arabs in the absence of a more nuanced choice -- which also means that Egyptians, whose home country is in Africa, aren't classified as "African-Americans" because the concept instead refers to Sub-Saharan Africans; in short, political correctness makes shit confusing).

Informationally, a lot of groups the government tries to simplify as "white" aren't considered white. And historically a lot of groups we consider white today weren't considered white in the past.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The question effectively becomes meaningless unless you clarify whether or not you're referring to Judaism as a religion/philosophy/culture/identity or if you're limiting discussion solely to an ethnic definition. But even if you just stick to "race" as opposed to ideology, you're still hitting the roadblock of asking exactly what a Jew IS.

In the context of "Jewish people" it can be safely assumed that ethnic origin is being discussed. Granted, you could have a sub-discussion of how the religion itself treats ethnic origin since only people with a Jewish mother are considered Jewish (aka matrilineality).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrilineality_in_Judaism

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