Originally posted by The Walrus:
You seem to allude to your Jewish-ness a lot on this bboard & elsewhere.
i surely do not want to speak for her, but many jews are "overtly jewish" because it's the only way they can maintain their identity (whether they identify as jewish on a national, ethnic, or religious basis)
jews who don't overtly identify themselves as such often just assimilate into mainstream culture, which is largely christian
it's interesting to go to israel and see an entire nation of jews ... many of them do not overtly identify themselves as religious / jewish because they simply don't have to ... the DEFAULT is judaism (the whole country shuts down from friday evening - saturday evening, holidays, etc), and there is no fear of losing their identity via assimilation
there is (generally) not much of a need for a WASP to overtly assert his/her ethnic/religious background because it's generally the default in this county
but again, i don't mean to speak for her at all, just pointing things out
