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Originally Posted by valo403
Really? Because I live and work in a city with hundreds of thousands of jews and a very high percentage of them won't consider marriage outside of their religion. Is it over 50%? Probably not, maybe not even 30%, but to say "it is not too common" is inaccurate. Heck, I dated a girl ate pepperoni pizza all the time but one of the reasons things never got that serious was her families desire for her to marry within the religion.
I don't begrudge any of the attention paid to the jewish side of the holocaust, I just wish that other atrocities were equally recognized. Whether the blame lies with those groups for not publicizing it is a whole different discussion, one that I'd rather not get into as many people are incapable of discussing it without things getting out of hand.
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THEY CAN MARRY WHO THEY WANT!!!! You are going to tell them who to marry? If they want to marry a Jew, let them! Who are you to judge?
What I said was not too common was when a family is angry like someone was posting. I agree though, Jews want to marry Jews, just like basically every other religion. So why bother mentioning it? It is a fact of life on this planet, people marry within cultures and religions all the time. You (I think it was your post) thought it would be good to tell this forum that Jews are guilty of being angry if their child does not marry a Jew.
Other atrocities are equally recognized, some more, some less. Someone's history is apparently at the top of the list. Lots of movies come out every year to highlight another horrible or shameful part of our history...but if it is about the holocaust, then WHOOOAAAA, it is just another attempt to push the holocaust on all of us. You might not be claiming that, but read the complete list of posts.
There are movies about WW2 and Japan, recently one about poverty in India, Aztecs, William Wallace etc. Many about the holocaust, but so what? Ask a Ukrainian about their history and if they have any sort of memorial to their past. I have no friggin clue, but I cannot blame society for that.