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[queencat95]

Originally Posted by RoastBeefJackson

I 3rd it
Its HORRIBLE place to grow up for black or non Jewish kids. They get treated like crap and shunned and non invited to parties by the parents.

That's disgusting.

[I_Love_LI_but]

Originally Posted by Walter Greenspan

Since Arabs and Jews are BOTH West Asian Semites, than, I guess, you and your crowd would not refer to Jews as white, either?

Most Jews these days in the world and the USA, INCLUDING MOST OF THOSE WHO ARE CITIZENS OF ISRAEL, are of European and Russian descent, not West Asian Semetic. The Jews that are in the homeland of Israel right now are overwhelmingly not genetically related to the original West Asian Semetic Jews but are actually the descendants of people on the continent of Europe who converted to Judaism a long time ago. There are very few of those original ones left. I think Sephardic Jews are one example.

[I_Love_LI_but]

Originally Posted by Walter Greenspan

Under that definition, then, I guess, that Jesus of Nazareth, being a West Asian Semite, as are almost all Jews, would not be "White", huh?

Technically he'd be of the Caucasian race, but I think all the artwork that depicts him as European looking (light brown hair, blue eyes, etc.) is off the mark as to how he probably actually looked.

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by I_Love_LI_but

Most Jews these days in the world and the USA, INCLUDING MOST OF THOSE WHO ARE CITIZENS OF ISRAEL, are of European and Russian descent, not West Asian Semetic. The Jews that are in the homeland of Israel right now are overwhelmingly not genetically related to the original West Asian Semetic Jews but are actually the descendants of people on the continent of Europe who converted to Judaism a long time ago. There are very few of those original ones left. I think Sephardic Jews are one example.

Even though Jews lived in Central and Eastern Europe for over 1,500 years, their (and, my) DNA is the same as the DNA of Syrians, also a West Asian Semitic peoples.

The Khazars, a West Asian Turkic people, that converted to Judaism in the 9th Century CE did inter-marry into the basically West Semite Jews coming east from Central Europe when they met up in Eastern Europe, but the over-riding DNA for the majority of Jews in the U.S. and Israel is West Asian Semite.

[I_Love_LI_but]

Originally Posted by Walter Greenspan

Even though Jews lived in Central and Eastern Europe for over 1,500 years, their (and, my) DNA is the same as the DNA of Syrians, also a West Asian Semitic peoples.

The Khazars, a West Asian Turkic people, that converted to Judaism in the 9th Century CE did inter-marry into the basically West Semite Jews coming east from Central Europe when they met up in Eastern Europe, but the over-riding DNA for the majority of Jews in the U.S. and Israel is West Asian Semite.

You might be interested in participating in this project:

https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/

[azzurrony]

Demographics

Someone earlier said that Garden City was 50/50 Protestant and Catholic. I actually think the protestant population there is now lower. In the last census the ethnic breakdown was:

Ancestries: Irish (35.3%), Italian (30.2%), German (18.9%), English (7.0%), Polish (4.8%), Greek (3.2%).

Assuming the Poles are Catholic, you are looking at a town that is about 70% Catholic. That's not surprising considering they have 2 Catholic Churches. There is a small Greek population that is tightly knit around St. Pauls from what I understand. There doesn't seem to be much of a presence of Jews (no Temples) or Asians at all.

GC is one exception to the rule where I don't think you'll see a real ethnic change in the next 30-50 yrs.

[JacquesPierre]

What are the differences between Great Neck North and South schools?

[Andysocks]

Originally Posted by Teresa1127

This is sad. I was hoping that those "watch out for children playing" signs in Flower Hill and Sands Point meant I'd see kids playing in the front yard or riding bikes.

It's the sad truth about today... those signs are all over LI but you rarely see kids playing in the street. My block in Queens, on the other hand, as no such signs, but plenty of kids playing in the street and making all kinds of ruckus, screaming and fighting and laughing and crap. I live by a large condo development with no lawns or green space (not to mention tiny 2br units, so I imagine the kids don't wanna be cramped inside with their parents all day), so all the kids that live there play in the street spring through fall because they have no other option. sad that that's what it takes for people these days to let their kids out the front door.