Quote Originally Posted by DetroitPlanner View Post
If your family has been somewhere for centuries you are part of the culture. Look at Hispanic, you can be hispanic and be black, white or asian. How are you defining ethnicity? Defining it is sort of useless as there are more exceptions than anything else. I define ethnicity based upon culture as a person's genetic background means pretty much nothing, unless you are Hitler.
Culture is food, dance, music, dress, religion--the activities of daily life. Ethnicity is genetic. Hence, the reason you can have ethnic Germans living in Austria, ethnic Arabs living in France, etc. While we might share the same culture, no one would dare suggest that whites and blacks in the United States are of the same ethnicity. It's ludicrous to assert as such.

If German Jews were considered ethnically German as you insist, we might have been able to avoid that entire Holocaust thing in the 1940s.