Lovis_Iovis t1_j9g6319 wrote
Reply to comment by harlemtechie in George Santos — who is Catholic — insists he used to say he was 'Jew-ish' as a party joke. Now he says he's taken 4 DNA tests to prove his maternal grandparents are actually Jewish. by Grass8989
Should you? Maybe if it is important to you and you have the interest, but otherwise the family’s word is all a lot of people have.
harlemtechie t1_j9g76jj wrote
Pretendians are a big problem in our communities. We have many that do not know their culture and they come in and destroy it even more, we are allowed to be selfish about this or we'll have some fake made up ish that has nothing to do with the real thing. This is about cultural genocide.
Lovis_Iovis t1_j9ga9fu wrote
I see what you’re saying. There definitely would be a problem with speaking as an authority on a culture (like contributing a recipe to a cookbook, for example) without an authentic connection to that culture. But it is another thing to just say that you have the ancestry, and a superficial connection, based on your family’s word.
harlemtechie t1_j9gb8rb wrote
What was more damaging was that d*mn book she wrote. That's moreso what I'm getting at.
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