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I'm not 100% sure what GP meant, but it's true that there are Jews who are white (I'm one.)

I meant that most people would say that most Jewish Americans are white. Given the US racial categories, it's the one that most Jewish people in the US fit into.

Of course, racial categories are made up anyway, but some people seem to care about these things.

Yeah, I'd agree with that. There are lots of non-white Jews out there, but average American interaction with Judaism has probably been through Ashkenazi Jews.

Ironically, the Sephardic and North African Jews that I know are more likely to self-identify as nonwhite, but are probably still counted as white by the US Census. Goes to your point about made-up categories!

“A are B” is not usually taken to mean “some As can be Bs”.

I was assuming the context that we're talking about the US. Did you immediately think of Ethiopian Jews when I said Jewish people?

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