how has fusion functioned or not functioned for any other subordinate group when compared with jews in the u.s
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Are you referring to cultural fusion into the American subculture or over all integration of jews as a race and ethnic group?\n\nSince Judaism is a religion not an ethnicity,  I would have to say adaptation into the American sub culture was rather easy because different cultural and ethnic groups merged under the Judaism umbrella but each individual group still can maintain independent identity.  That is the exact mirror of the American cultural state.\n\nOther ethnic and cultural groups tend to be more defined and therefore stand out more but ultimately America was built on immigrants and fusion is guaranteed.
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Amongst traditionally observant Jews, men and women do not touch each other.  This does not, of course, apply to a husband and wife, and it doesn't necessarily apply to one's immediate family (though I knew one guy who was so strict about it that he wouldn't hug his own mother - I don't know if he was simply being stringent in his observance, or just being unnecessarily strict).  Even husband and wife do not touch each other for a certain length of time each month.  People who keep these rules are referred to as "shomer negiah" (keeping the laws regarding physical contact).  The reasoning behind all this is basically a combination of laws regarding ritual purity and modesty in conduct.\n\nWikipedia actually has a pretty decent article explaining this concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negiah\n\nAlso, amongst other things, men and women are not supposed to be alone in a room together.\n\nMen are instructed not to converse excessively with a woman, as this may lead to sin, etc., etc.\n\nPlease note that although all these rules may make observant Jews sound uptight, you'd be hard-pressed to find a religion with a healthier attitude towards sexuality.  While some religions frown upon marriage as a necessary evil, a concession to men and women's baser instincts, while maintaining that the ideal life for a pious person is one of celibacy, Judaism maintains that we are commanded to marry and have children, and in fact, this is the first mitzvah recorded in the Torah (be fruitful and multiply).  In Judaism, sexuality isn't shunned, but rather, restricted (that is, to the context of marriage) and refined into one of the holiest of acts.\n\nI hope this helps answer your question.  If you have any further questions, I can try to answer them, or, if I feel unqualified (which I probably will be), I can point you in the direction of someone who can.
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At least get your facts straight when you spout your racist nonsense, otherwise you just sound like an idiot.  Jews are 2.2% of the population according to the 2000 census.\n\nhttp://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/tables/06s0071.xls
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No, world domination has never been and is not a Jewish legacy nor destiny. You will note Jews never waged aggressive war on any enemy outside their borders once Israel was established initially and have not taken land that was not part of the original kingdom since, although Egypt argues the Sinai was an encroachment.
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There is an excellent and very detailed analysis of this question in the book "Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time" by Michael Shermer. He discusses the motivations and tactics of those who deny the Holocaust ever happened; then he goes on to provide evidence of how we know it did. It's a fascinating book. I highly recommend it.\n\nAnd yes, as you can imagine, they are largely anti-Semitic with a bit of a paranoid streak, and tend to be conspiracy theorists as well.
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Hmm, I wonder... Do 99% of the Jews think of YOU AND YOUR RACE the same way?\n\nOr, are you simply an IGNORANT fellow? Or, are you full of ENVY?? Which is it???\n\nPeace be with you!
1052109
Pretty much the same thing dear!!!! How about the differences between Nuclear Fusion and Nuclear Fission.
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I'm an American and I don't love Isreal or Jews, so please don't generalize and lump us all together. As for giving them part of the US, there are already more Jews in America than there are in Isreal. That is the reason the US seems so pro-Isreal, the Jewish population controls a lot of money in this country which influences politics. Just because I'm an American doesn't mean I agree with this, or my government's foreign policy concerning Isreal. If you have a problem with America, aim your anger at the government, not the people. Contraying to popular belief, both here and abroad, the American people play quite a small role in the government, particularly since many do not vote.
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In Jewish law, men and women do not touch other men or women outside their immediate family. So, that includes things like shaking hands.
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It does not matter what any one's position is.\n The fact is that there are Jews there.
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Never heard of such a thing. Are you sure? Where is information on it. That's like Jewish nazis, or a Native American republican.
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in all honesty... concentration camps were probably more humane than the hollows of a slave ship en route from the African continent to the US... However, I do think that the Nazis were definately issuing out unprecedented acts of cruelty on the Jews.  Now, I am African American, but I truely think horror is horror, and I don't see 1 being any better than the other.  However, at least the Jews still have a heritage to embrace, while all I have is myself to identify with in a foreign nation to my ancestors.  No no, I wouldn't weigh these horrors against each other... All I can say is, thank goodness I didn't have to endure through either... I'd most assuredly would not have stood either long enough to survive.
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Although Judaism accepts converts from any race or people, nevertheless, most Jews today are not converts nor descendants of converts.\nThat being the case, most Jews are, in fact, Semetic thus may have a "semetic look".\n\nAs to someone's reference to the Khazars: that was a speculation by a historian in the book "The Thirteenth Tribe" by William Kunstler  (sp?) in that today's Ashkenazi Jews are descendants of converts from the Khazar tribe. Mainstream historians discount this.\n\nThus, this is what I will acknowledge. Jews are both part of a religion (whether they observe Judaism or not) and ethnicity. Judaism itself is a religion.
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membership to the jewish religion is passed down through the mother (except in cases of conversion), while tribal membership is passed down through the father.  \n\nfor example, if a jewish man and a christian woman had a child, the baby would not be jewish and has no tribal lineage even though his father was jewish. but if a jewish woman and a christian man had a child, the baby is legally jewish, but still has no tribal lineage, since his father had none. \n\nit has been this way for thousands of years, and the basis for this procedure comes from biblical verses.\n\n"If that is the case, then why was the lineage recorded in Matthew for example, fathers only? Unless Matthew and the other writers were not familiar with Jewish custom?"\n\nand voila, you have there one of the basic reasons jews do not accept jesus as the messiah.
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Taking cues and names from the Jews I see.Do you honestly have the gall to compare your selves to the plight of the Jews? How absolutely asinine.Is there nothing sacred to you?Have 6 million illegal aliens died i by the hand of any one.Has any one told you that you don't have the right to exist?That's deplorable to me to use this .Shame on you! Illegal aliens are not legal ,you should be ashamed to even think your illegal activities can be compared to that of the Jews.
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I disagree with your analysis of an ethnic group...the Jewish people were stateless for thousands of years. \n\nGypsies, too, although they don't quite count as an ethnic group. well...they kind of do.
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It's a religion.  The fact that many Jews share the same apperance is that is not a prosteltyzing religion and it has not spread much outside of its original followers.