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Originally Posted by merleniau
To Jinn and everyone else in a hubbub about race: biologically, a race is a subspecies. There are no known subspecies of humans, because geographic and sexual isolation is a requirement for defining a true genetic race. The amount of variation within a race must be smaller than the amount of variation within the parent species, something that is impossible to achieve within the constraints of cultural definitions of race.
So, there is no Jewish race, as Hal said. There IS a religion, and there IS an ethnic association with such religion.
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The problem is that when someone says someone is African, or Jewish, or Chinese they are referring to their ethnicity. So if one of Halx's parents were ethnically jewish then calling him jewish would be an accurate description though it could be easily miss interpreted by people to assume that he believed in Judaism.