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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
What's the main reason? I ask because every Jewish friend I have seemed to have a lot of family pressure to marry Jewish. This is like 3 data points, so I'm not claiming statistical significance.
They also explained to me that from a religion perspective, they aren't exactly looking for new recruits, and it's not a super paved path for a gentile to join up. I don't love me a door knocking evangelical by any means, and really appreciate the fact I've never had someone try push their Jewish faith on me. It does make me wonder if the fact many Christian and Muslim sects are trying to attract people of all walks of life breaks down the ethnic barrier aspect of things a bit within those groups.
To say it more succinctly, are there cultural and religious factors that led to the lack of mixing and staying on the periphery of society (or being straight up ostracized) in many countries?
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It's about preserving culture and resisting assimilation. If every Jewish person married a non-Jewish person, the Jewish people would simply cease to exist. Jewish people also have a history of being discriminated against heavily in Christian nations.
You're misrepresenting mainstream Christianity/Islam with all forms of those religions. There are plenty of versions of those religions that are also tied to ethnicity/culture. For example Greek Orthodox. It's almost entirely practiced by Greek people of Greek ethnicity.
The idea that Jewishness is unique at being based around ethnic background is totally absurd and just hateful. In fact, research has shown that 58% of all Jews in America married non-Jews, with rates being much higher for non-religious Jews:
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion...-demographics/
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The survey suggests that intermarriage is common among Jews; 44% of all currently married Jewish respondents – and 58% of those who have married since 2005 – indicate they are married to a non-Jewish spouse.
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https://www.pewresearch.org/religion...-demographics/
So to answer your question. No Jews do not discriminate against other ethnicities more than any other cultural/ethnic group.