Has there ever been any other race besides German in the Amish Community? If not why? Is this something...?
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You're right that they are born into it, but outsiders are allowed to convert to their religion if they wish. \nAlso, if a person wants to remain a member of the Amish community, they must marry an Amish person.  Intercultural marriages are not allowed in the Amish religion, so I think that you're right; most are German/Dutch.
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young_line595 is correct - genetically there is no such thing as race. Of course people aren't that rational.\n\nBut the answer is: sure.
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Well you see, as yet, no one has ever been able to find any real historical proof of the existance of this couple.  Sure, there have been all kinds of interpretations of various discoveries, that this or that "must mean" something else.\n\nBut this is a great question, as it simply points out a fact:  Genetically, how did one couple spawn so many different races?\n\nThere was an earlier question on this subject, where it was pointed out that even in the bible there are references to the existance of others, outside Eden, with whom those cast out must have mated.\n\nAt any rate, there must be other factors involved.\n\nThis being the case, then Adam and Eve can be supposed to have whatever genetic and racial characteristics you want to assign.  Who could proove otherwise?
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My cousin did our genealogy and discovered our family descended from English royalty. I don't know his name, I was young and was kind of ho-hum about it at the time but other family members were real excited about it. Sorry, no link.
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Why don't you Yahoo Search or Google this because I don't the average person knows what you're getting at. One thing I'm not going to do is to talk about different races, because everyone is the same inside only a little different\noutside. Do you compretend?
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There is a theory that the human race was "seeded" by a race from another galaxy.  In fact, there is controversy surrounding the use of the name "elohim" in the old bible, which some claim is the name of the race that fathered us, and not one of the first names given to God by man.\n\nIf this is true, then we are all "aliens".  how cool is that?!
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Indian immigrants? Are we speaking Indians from India? or Native American???? because Native American's ARE NOT immigrants. Anglo Saxon's are immigrants.\n\nP.S. How many Anglo Saxon's have you seen working in the fields picking lettuce in California? How many want to? I think we should all consider the jobs that the immigrants have, would any of you want them? No.......
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Hi. I'm Rommie's friend. (she answered above) Yeah, although I'm very universal in accepting people of all races, I also have no choice, but to accept the negativity of my race against other people's races and vice versa. It's not my job to correct anyone, and it would be a waste of time, even if I wanted to. These sad individuals have chosen to live a life of hate towards other races and groups, and their's nothing you or I can say or do about it. They have already made up their minds.
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Why do we say that human's are of different "races"?  Seems to me we are all running at the same speed and heading towards the same destination ............. If I must place myself in a race, I am triracial, where would I fit?
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It would be more socially acceptable if they chose to be referred to as Americans with an African heritage.  American should always be put first.  I am an Ameircan of German decent and have never considered anything else. I am not a German American. I am an American!!!!!!!!!! It just happens that I am of German Ancestery
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I didn't realize that we had multiple races outside of "HUMAN". Besides, not all those who disagree with organized religion are atheists. I'm a Non-Denominational Happy Pagan Person.
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This question pops up from time to time, and the pro illegals don't seem to get it ... we're against ALL illegal immigration from ANYWHERE!  White, black, brown ... doesn't matter ....\n\nWhat's interesting though is that those who are pro illegal immigration really all seem to be pro Hispanic immigration ... I wonder if THEY would be equally happy about an influx of German street gangs?
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I am not aware of the Amish people seeking converts. They seem to keep to themselves, try to do without modern conveniences and entertainment, and for this reason most people don't understand them.
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I don't like the whole PC nomenclature because it's all based on physical characteristics anyway. Someone else mentioned white South Africans and alluded to the fact that they aren't truly African. Is that just because whites immigrated there from Europe or are descendants of those Europeans who claimed the land as their own? Well then, if those old "land bridge" theories are correct, then instead of referring to anyone as "Native Americans," we need to understand that technically, they are probably "Asian-Americans." Just how far back in one's ancestry do we need to go? And why isn't "European-American" as widely accepted and used as the other "(continent)-American" forms? And if I become a citizen of Berlin, will I be a "North American-German" or just "American-German"? "American-European"? And why aren't Middle Eastern natives referred to as "Asian-Americans"? Why are they often called "Muslims" and "Hindus" instead? Why aren't the rest of us referred to by our religious affiliations (if applicable)?\n\nThere are no perfect "labels" we can use - not everyone will be satisfied. What we need to remember is that the *intent* of someone's writing/speech is the important thing. Some black comedians have ridiculed the whole "African-American" terminology since it didn't magically make everything better. Furthermore, if someone says something such as, "That's just typical African-American behavior," is that person suddenly "sensitive" for using the proper PC term? How about "Hey, you know how those Asian-Americans are"?\n\nJust my two cents - we need to try to respect each other and accept our differences before we can really become color-blind.\n\n(EDIT: Hey gogo, does that mean Margaret Thatcher is "African-American"? What about Vladimir Putin? Osama bin Laden? Saddam Hussein? Ichiro Suzuki? We're *all* "African-American"?)\n\n(EDIT 2: My point is that we shouldn't be "concerned" *only* with the "hyphenated American" labels - that's a rather nationalistic viewpoint, don't you think? If we *in the United States* are *all* "African-Americans," then those in other countries are thus "African-[insert country.....or continent.....or something]." I wanted to extend this beyond our borders since not all of the world's 6.5 billion people ["humanity"] are living within the United States and/or the rest of the American continents.)
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Yaya--there is only one race because:\n"The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; neither is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all life and breath and all things;and He made from one man, every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times, and the boundaries of their habitation," (Acts 17:24-26)\n\n When God confused the languages at Babel, (Genesis 10, esp. verses 7&9) people could only marry close family members if they wanted to be able to communicate with their spouses!  So hair color, eye color, facial features, even skin tone, became concentrated in each family.  Each family eventually formed a nation or people group--and the people looked a lot alike because of the original close intermarrying.\n\nYes, "Racism" exists--because people are sinful.  A person might use himself or herself as the standard and shun people who are different.  Of course, other people will also shun or persecute this person because of their differences.  \n\nShunning or persecuting people based on their skin color or features is wrong.  God looks on the heart, and what matters is that your heart is right with God, not whether you are black or white, brown-haired or blonde-haired, pretty or ugly, or any of the outside physical differences between people.
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I hope no-one takes offence to your question. It is a valid one and you clearly state this as a generalisation and obviously understand that there is a huge variation in jewish appearance, but yes, there is some characturistics that are considered 'jewish'.\n\nI think it is as someone has already said, there is a geographical orrigination and historically jews have not married out of religion, although this is of course a generalisation in its self. So the gene pool has largely remained intact. Obviousy the genes for those characturistics have been carried through the generations and not been widely circulated among other religious backgrounds. Although again I stress those characturistics are not exclusively jewish and intermarriage has scattered them about into other cultures too.\n\nPerhaps even, many of those characturistic genes are recessive, and therefore generally appear in the more pure jewish families than the ones of more mixed race. \n\nBut I do dissagree with about the 'christian' look. I'm sure out of a line up of jews, christians, muslims, hindus, buddists and many other religions, that someone could pick out a christian. Generally speaking of course. I'm sure we could also find many traditianaly jewish or traditionally muslim looking people and actually find that thay are infact christian or buddist.
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German and caucasian are not the same thing because German is a nationality and caucasian is a race. You can be half german and half mexican but you can only be one race. Or of course Biracial.