project for school- Being that I am Jewish and that is my religion, what would my ethnicity be?

Question

My question for my project is What ethnic group or groups am I a part of? If i am a Jewish American woman, what wouild the answer to this be? what does ethnicity mean? How is it different than relgion? help pleeeaseee thanks

Answer 1

It's not different, it is your religion. People think of it as an ethnicity because of the way people view jews. If you are from Japan than you would be Japanese. People don't ask what ethnic background are you, and get the reply, I'm Christian. :-)

Answer 2

An ethnic group is a human population whose members identify with each other, usually on the basis of a presumed common genealogy or ancestry. Ethnic groups are also usually united by common cultural, behavioral, linguistic, or religious practices. In this sense, an ethnic group is also a cultural community.
"Ethnic" is derived from the Greek ethnos, meaning "people". It was typically used to refer to non-Greek people, so the term also connotated "foreign".
Jewish refers to people belonging to the religion of Judaism. It is commonly mistaken as an ethnic group but it is not an ethnic group. People of the Jewish faith belong to many different ethnicities. The most commonly used terms to describe ethnic divisions among Jews currently are: Ashkenazi (meaning "German" in Hebrew, denoting the Central European base of Jewry); and Sephardi (meaning "Spanish" or "Iberian" in Hebrew, denoting their Spanish, Portuguese and North African location). They refer to both religious and ethnic divisions.
Other Jewish ethnic groups include Mizrahi Jews (a term overlapping Sephardi, but emphasizing North African and Middle Eastern rather than Spanish history, and including the Maghrebim); Teimanim (Yemenite and Omani Jews); and such smaller groups as the Gruzim and Juhurim from the Caucasus, the Bene Israel, Bnei Menashe, Cochin and Telugu Jews of India, the Romaniotes of Greece, the Italkim (Bené Roma) of Italy, various African Jews (most notably the Beta Israel or Ethiopian Jews), the Bukharan Jews of Central Asia, Kaifeng Jews from China, and the Persian Jews of Iran.

Answer 3

Umm... ethincity has NOTHING to do with religion. Ethnicity is your heritage and where your family originates.Religion is a CHOICE. Ask your parents.

Answer 4

ethnicity is a race question..caucasian, *******, mongoloid....its now been expanded to include hispanic and such. You are probably caucasian.

Answer 5

You could be Polish, Russian, Israeli...
Ask your parents.