Chinese business

[james.hendrickson]

Everyone - thanks for keeping a sensitive topic civil.

[moneybags]

To some, but that's actually the name of the area. Everyone calls it that, the residents included. They even have a Facebook group for the neighborhood and that's what the group is called. Nobody here views it as derogatory any more than Chinatown or Little Italy. It's just a descriptive term.

My friends at Merriam-Webster agree with me.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Polack

Chinatown and Little Italy are not offensive terms.

[disneysteve]

My friends at Merriam-Webster agree with me.

I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm just saying that is what it is called by everybody, Polish people and everyone else. If they decide to start calling it something else, that would be fine, but I can't say I've ever heard anyone suggest changing the name of the neighborhood.

[~bs]

This isn't unique to the Asian population. In many big cities, to this day, there are highly ethnic neighborhoods. "Little Italy" is a common term. The city where I used to work has an area called "Pollock Town". Teaneck, NJ has one of the largest Chassidic Jewish populations in the world.

Good point. irish, jewish, italians, etc etc is most major cities that had a lot of immigration at one point or another and found themselves in the same situation. And a lot of this pre-dated the chinese, who were brought over as laborers in the mid to late 1800s

[TexasHusker]

A black guy in high school always called me a honky, and there was a Hispanic fellow that liked to call me his gringo friend. I never was particularly offended by either.

[Like2Plan]

I'd be pretty disappointed with a DNA test that reported "Jewish" in that way because that tells you absolutely nothing about where your descendants are from.

23andme reports Ashkenazi Jewish as a subset of European populations.

Not sure if this is right, but wikipedia says, "The term "Ashkenazi" refers to Jewish settlers who established communities along the Rhine River in Western Germany and in Northern France dating back to the Middle Ages..."

It goes on to say, "Genetic studies on Ashkenazim—researching both their paternal and maternal lineages—suggest a predominant amount of shared Middle Eastern ancestry, complimented by varying percentages of European admixture. These studies have arrived at diverging conclusions regarding both the degree and the sources of their European ancestry, and have generally focused on the extent of the European genetic origin observed in Ashkenazi maternal lineages."

It also says, "Ashkenazi Jews are popularly contrasted with Sephardi Jews (also called Sephardim), who descend from Jews who settled in the Iberian Peninsula, and Mizrahi Jews, who descend from Jews who remained in the Middle East. "

AFAIK Ashkenazi Jewish is the only Jewish genetic origin that is reported on 23andme.

[disneysteve]

23andme reports Ashkenazi Jewish as a subset of European populations.

AFAIK Ashkenazi Jewish is the only Jewish genetic origin that is reported on 23andme.

That makes sense. If they specify Ashkenazi, that does tell you something. If it simply said "Jewish" that would be pretty meaningless.

[Like2Plan]

That makes sense. If they specify Ashkenazi, that does tell you something. If it simply said "Jewish" that would be pretty meaningless.

I was just looking at Ancestry and they have a lot more categories under DNA origins for European Jewish. They have 8 European regions.

[disneysteve]

I was just looking at Ancestry and they have a lot more categories under DNA origins for European Jewish. They have 8 European regions.

That totally makes sense.