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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That's not what they think, that's not how they act, and that's not what the science says. Ashkenazim, Sepharadim, and Mizrahim are more genetically similar to each other than to their respective host nations (this does not hold true for Ethiopian and Indian Jews, as they have interbred too much). These Middle Eastern Jews comprise a race unto themselves. That's why, when in Europe, they have opposed European interests at every turn. That's why Israel forcibly sterilized its Ethiopian "Jewish" refugees. And that's why they can use genetic testing to exclude Russian Europeans from Israeli immigration. They have maintained their genetic distinctiveness over thousands of years, and they remain a group of hostile foreigners with a racial supremacist ideology they can use to justify any action against the goy.

[–]not_mean_enough 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I see you are using your own definition of the word race, which is different from the standard usage. It's not a scientific term based on genetic similarities, but a word that refers to some immediately visible physical features shared by people originating from the same wide area. Of course there are genes responsible for things like skin colour or eye shape, but general genetic differences between humans do not closely follow the phenotypical differences by which people are categorised into races. Two black Africans can be more genetically dissimilar than a Chinese and an Indian, despite genes responsible for their skin colour in common.

If you think race means something more than what you can tell by just looking at someone's face, you're deluded.

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I see you are using your own definition of the word race, which is different from the standard usage. It's not a scientific term based on genetic similarities, but a word that refers to some immediately visible physical features shared by people originating from the same wide area.

As a biological term, race is synonymous with subspecies and requires both genetic clustering and common phenotype (appearance and behavior).

Two black Africans can be more genetically dissimilar than a Chinese and an Indian, despite genes responsible for their skin colour in common.

Sub-Saharan Africa has an unusual amount of genetic diversity, as they never had any pressure to develop the wheel or other transportation technology, so there are groups that have remained isolated for hundreds of thousands of years. But race is not just skin deep, and color is one of the least varied traits. And to get that sort of genetic distance, you'll be essentially forced to pick from two distant clusters - e.g. a Bantu and a Khoisan, and if you pay any attention at all to their features, you can tell that they're clearly not the same race.

If you think race means something more than what you can tell by just looking at someone's face, you're deluded.

FWIW physiognomy is real too.