[Joel Kallem]

Americans, like people everywhere, tend to categorize groups of people rather than looking at individuals. These categorizations tend to lump people together on perceived characteristics that may or may not be accurate. People everywhere are creatures of their cultural biases,and Americans have many because of their lack of understanding of other world cultures including customs and religion. Americans also have a cultural bias that ‘their’ culture (basically defined as white / anglo saxon /christian) is the best one (while at the same time other cultures have the same feelings about themselves). Cultural arrogance and ignorance is a world wide phenomenon, and the 9/11 tragedy happened to put the focus on this aspect of it.

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Name : Joel Kallem, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Jewish, Age : 62, City : Kansas City, State : MO, Country : United States, Occupation : retired, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

[Joel Kallem]

Hebrew is a language – not food. Being Jewish is a religion – not food although the religion does contain some specific requirements for dealing with food (keeping Kosher)which evolved as dietary restraints based on health/disease considerations that existed in ancient times. Jews exist all around the world, and are found in many cultures. Thus, there is a tremendous variation in them in such areas as dress, diet, customs, etc. Food that most Americans consider ‘Jewish’ come from the culture of European Jews who are the largest subgroup in this country and thus considered ‘typical’. The foods you mention are typical of this group, but also typical of many non-jews whose ancestors come from the same geographical background.

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Name : Joel Kallem, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Jewish, Age : 62, City : Kansas City, State : MO, Country : United States, Occupation : retired, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

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