Re: Self-Use of Ethnic Insults (was: Re: Ebonic Christmas )
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 17, 2000, 21:31 |
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At 00:01 -0500 16.1.2000, Steg Belsky wrote:
>just like everyone else i have the same instinctive
>preferance for the long-winded term "jewish person" than "jew". Maybe
>it's some kind of Western cultural thing about de-emphasizing Jewish
>"separateness" or something, by turning it into a separate adjective.
Does it not have to do with de-emphasizing the notion that "Jews" are a
"race" or a nation, rather than a religion, whose adherents belong to
several nations?
In Sweden the term _mosaisk_ (approx. **Mosean) is popular as a substitute
for "Jewish believer/congregation/cemetary", which is very consciously
meant in this way.
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto: bpj@...> <mailto: melroch@...>
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