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		whimsicalism on June 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 bl... Yes, but the average American also thinks of an Ashkenazi Jew when they think of a Jew, and has no idea that Sephardim & mizrahim even exist, even if they don't know the words for any of it.

chitowneats on June 3, 2021 [–]

OP's point is to refer to these people as Ashkenazi. To think of them as that, instead of (or perhaps in addition to) as Jewish.

My point is we are a long way away from that, despite how many Ashkenazi Jews live in the US.

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