The Jewish emphasis on religion, marriage, and family was to preserve their racial heritage and property. The same goes for the inbred German royals of England, France, Spain, Italy, Scandinavia, Russia, Portugal, and Germany.
2006-07-05 01:55:26 · 4 answers · asked by mouthbreather77 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Anybody who splits hairs over the semantics of ethnicity and race is ridiculous.
2006-07-05 02:43:39 · update #1
No, family is not overrated. The racist practices however should be condemned.
2006-07-05 02:00:46 · answer #1 · answered by arvind_vyas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're incorrect.
Judaism is not "racist", it's insular or isolationist, which is a different thing entirely. If you consider the Jewish history of diaspora and persecution it makes sense that for the preservation of the culture they would be insular.
If Judaism were racist Yiddish would not exist. Yiddist-ket is pidgeon language, it was invented for the sole purpose of allowing a wide variety of Jews from different countries, cultures and movements to communicate.
Due to diaspora you have a wide variety of "cultural" Jews, i.e. Sephardic, Hasidic, Reform, Eastern European etc. Their cultures, languages and beliefs may differ greatly... Being insular allowed an ethnicity without a homeland to survive. Also, it wasn't about preserving "racial" heritage at all as Judaism is not a race, but rather an ethnicity or culture.
The emphasis on family can be dangerous if it leads to excessive inbreeding or the exclusion of others. However, Judaism, with few exceptions, allows people to convert to the religion or intermarry, meaning that while insular, it is not literally exclusionary.
2006-07-05 09:39:04 · answer #2 · answered by Rachel B 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
your statements make me uncomfortable, so i won't comment on anything other than "is family overrated," with no reference to anything else you said.
yes, i think family is overrated, especially the "extended family." i think one's parents (and wife and children, if you have them) are all one really needs for a family.
on the flip side, i think *community* is underrated. there has been plenty written about the demise of community over the last 100 years, and i doubt there's anything new i could add to the subject, especially since i'm way too young to actually remember being part of a true community.
2006-07-05 09:03:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
And you are???????
I think your name says it all & answers your question for you!
2006-07-05 09:01:03 · answer #4 · answered by tkltafoya 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋