I’m not White, I’m Ashkenazi Jewish

Edna Jan Jacobs,
Alexandria, VA

There are only 14 million Jewish people in the whole world. Is it a religion? Is it ethnicity? I am ethnically 91% Ashkenazi Jewish but because my skin lacks the pigmentation of my ancestors, I am categorized as white and I dislike it.


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