If you consider it straight up a religion and nothing else, then no i'm not Jewish, however Jews differ from other religions on the aspect that they often consider themselves an idividual race/culture as well as a religion. The reason behind this is that Jews are a very closed culture, not so much close minded, but closed as in the culture is very close, for instance in your state/provine there will be places where the majority of inhabitants are known to be Jewish. Just as China Town is known to be where all the chinese are, there are areas where all the Jews are known to live. I could meat a random Jewish familly in Westmount around here, and ask if they know of another Jewish familly i'm acquinted with, and they probably would know who the familly is because they'd have done a businness deal with them, were planning on doing one, or someone they know had done one with them. This is why Jews are so good at business. The other reason why we'd consider ourselves a culture is our physical appearence, where christians can come in all shapes and sizes, most european jews bear resemblance through notable traits, for instance a large curved nose, and curly jew fro hair.

If you ask a lot of Jews what their cultural background is, and they're British/Jewish, chances are they won't say British, they'll say Jewish.

This is more for european Jews, other Jews don't really work like this...

I'll explain my belief later, i'm going to the gym now. Pc

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