Semitic or Uralic. Which one do you feel close to?

[Finnish Swede]

Uralic .... as I have never met any ''Uralic'' which would give me this impression (photo below).
(in reality some of those are the most honest people in the world; even naive much).



Semitics on the other hand....

[Dandelion]

European Jews are Semitic and they preserved Hebrew as their language of religion and study:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Hebrew

I voted Semitic because Poland was the country where Jews found refuge for many centuries.

I feel close to Hungarians but I don't consider them to be very Uralic except for their language.

And Polonophobia is too high in Finland and Estonia.

[Finnish Swede]

And Polonophobia is too high in Finland and Estonia.

What's that?

[Token]

Arabs has strong Med influence, so no brain choice here.

They don't have Med influence, they are the definition of Med, the purest ones.

[Peterski]

What's that?

Irrational fear and/or hatred of Polish people.

But I don't think that Finns or Estonians have it. They probably just don't think or care much about Poland.

[TeutonicBoyars]

European Jews are Semitic and they preserved Hebrew as their language of religion and study:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Hebrew

I voted Semitic because Poland was the country where Jews found refuge for many centuries.

I feel close to Hungarians but I don't consider them to be very Uralic except for their language.

Didn't Jews more or less isolate themselves from Poles though? I mean from what I've read in regards to their presence in Poland they were totally not assimilated and might as well have lived on another planet. Even a Polish-Jewish nobel prize winner (whose name escapes me at this moment) admitted he only understood the Polish language with great difficulty.

[Catarinense1998]

They don't have Med influence, they are the definition of Med, the purest ones.

I know about this, but some arabs have armenoid, negroid and syrian influences.

[Peterski]

Didn't Jews more or less isolate themselves from Poles though? I mean from what I've read in regards to their presence in Poland they were totally not assimilated and might as well have lived on another planet. Even a Polish-Jewish nobel prize winner (whose name escapes me at this moment) admitted he only understood the Polish language with great difficulty.

It depends. There was a group of Polonized Jews (assimilated into Polish culture) and a group of Orthodox Jews who isolated themselves:





Since the 1700s there were also Jewish converts to Catholicism (it began with Jewish Messiah Jacob Frank) who melted into Polish people:

http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Conversion

http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Frankism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankism

[TeutonicBoyars]

They don't have Med influence, they are the definition of Med, the purest ones.

Shit I never thought about it this way. But what about the "West Med" component that you can find, for example, in various GEDmatch calculators. To me that component seemed to peak only in southern Europeans (notably Italians and Portuguese) and didn't seem as present in Near Eastern groups. Is the west med component in this case just a different name for a European neolithic component?

[TeutonicBoyars]

It depends. There was a group of Polonized Jews (assimilated into Polish culture) and a group of Orthodox Jews who isolated themselves:

This didn't seem to happen until much later though. If I'm understanding the charts correctly then even by 1921 80% of Jews in most cities could be considered "unassimilated".

I don't know much about Frankism to be honest, but from what I have read about it it appears to be somewhat "shady", especially since Frankists continued to marry among themselves rather than the surrounding general population. To me that just kind of recalls the incidents in Spain a few hundred years prior where a great majority of Jewish converts to Catholicism were not sincere.