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Are Jews White

2020 
Race is a constructed category of social organization as much as it is a reflection of some aspects of biological reality. Beginning in the eighteenth century and continuing to the present, there has been an important cultural response to the idea of race, one which has stressed the uniqueness of the individual over the uniformity of the group. It is the appearance, the skin color, the external manifestation of the Jew which marks the Jew as different. For the non-Jew seeing the Jew it mirrored popular assumptions about the Jew's inherent, essential nature. It is the Christian claim to universal brotherly love that Freud was employing in arguing that the differences between himself, his body, and the body of the Aryan, are trivial. Antithetical theories, such as those of Friedrich Ratzel, began to argue that skin color was a reflex of geography, and could and did shift when a people moved from one part of the globe to another.
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