On 6 Feb 2007 at 12:12, David Epstein wrote:

> > What is the logic in recording ethnicity as simply "Hispanic" or
> > "not Hispanic"?  Why do your ethnic categories not include, for
> > example, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, French, Danish, Swedish,
> > German, Italian, Polish, Ukrainian, Greek, Turkish

Ah yes, and not to forget the perennial conundrum: What is a Jew?

I see that Wikipedia weighs in on this one where others fear to tread. 
Further exploration turned up this:

"What is a Jew? The anthropologists have proved it is not a race, since 
the only scientific category is the Semitic, which includes Arabians and 
Assyrians, some of the most fervent anti-Jews in the world. And if it 
were merely a religion, all Jews like me would have to be excluded. And 
if it is only a unit of national culture it is withering away in America, 
for the customs and traditions that the Glicksteins brought over at the 
end of the nineteenth century may have been inherited by Israel, droning 
in his yarmolka at my side, but were thrown overboard as excess baggage 
by anyone in such a hurry as his younger brother."

Budd Schulberg, What Makes Sammy Run (1941)

Stephen

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