Jewish Americans 14 Marcus Anderson

Our class discussion on Jewish Americans was interesting for many various reasons. One point in particular that stuck with me was the idea that the acceptance level of outsiders into the Jewish culture is not accepted on a large scale. In our discussion we discussed how a person(s) is not fully' Jewish' if their parents are not 100 percent Jewish and so forth. I did not know much about the Jewish American culture until I read Marger and in our class discussion. I believe that the certain characteristics in which makes a person fully apart of a race or culture applies in other races within out society. I believe that all races and ethnicity's all require people within the culture to have certain qualities in which makes them 100 percent of the race. Rather it be the need to be short, tall, colored eyes, religious, light or dark skinned to name a few, there are these characteristics in which people in which races have to fit in order to be '100 authentic' to a race. At first I was surprised when in our discussion we spoke about how it is very difficult or nearly impossible for an outsider to achieve full acceptance within the Jewish American race. But after I analyzed it, I came to the conclusion that each race within society goes through these same struggles of ' to my what characteristics must I have to be acceptable within society to my fullest potential?' One simple thing that races deny ones authenticity with is skin tone; how light or dark a persons appearence is.