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what about the term race versus ethnicity? Jinn states that there is a Jewish race. I'm not up on my racial definitions (and I'd hate to do a diservice by using Wikipedia) but I was under the impression that there were historically 3 different races, of which Jewish people - at least the Semitic ones - belong to the Caucasian group.
Now, I've heard that the historical division of races into the three groupings was facile, and categorization has now switched to blood groupings rather than surface physical features. So in this light it may indeed be possible to narrow the 'racial' definition of a like group of people to an ethnicity.
I must do some reading on the current state of this.
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