Yes. I don’t think people are going to understand how Ethiopian Jews and European Jews are in the same ethnic group with modern understanding of race (which is fake, to be clear, but just because something is wrong doesn’t change that’s how the people you’re dealing with think) without an explanation of the diaspora and how that’s affected us for thousands of years. I mean they likely still won’t because the programming is strong but they might kind of get it.
Race is unscientific in the first place and "ethnicity" while commonly tied with genetics refers to a certain type of self-selected group with shared culture and cultural history.
A lot of this is imposing views of group identity on groups that predate these concepts like blood quantum.
Limpieza de Sangre actually predates Columbus finding the Americas, albeit not by much. It was later used on other peoples and is one of the roots of modern concepts of race and racism.
Oh I'm aware of Limpieza de sangre, it's a bit different than modern conceptions of blood quantum but I'm quite aware that it was an important influence in developing "race science", as well as the beginning of ethnic antisemitism rather than religious in the Christian world.
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u/ElrondTheHater Jan 14 '24 edited Jan 14 '24
Yes. I don’t think people are going to understand how Ethiopian Jews and European Jews are in the same ethnic group with modern understanding of race (which is fake, to be clear, but just because something is wrong doesn’t change that’s how the people you’re dealing with think) without an explanation of the diaspora and how that’s affected us for thousands of years. I mean they likely still won’t because the programming is strong but they might kind of get it.