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Originally Posted by EddyTheDog
WTF?
'Germans'is not referring to an ethnic group, it means they are from Germany.
Jews refer to somone who is Jewish, a religion. Nothing to do with ethic groups.
'German Jews' is perfectly correct.
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In that case the German language must be a social construct, and not something that organically came from a specific ethnic group.
It's only when it comes to White people that these things are even questioned. Nobody questions the Chinese-ness of the Chinese, or the Japanese-ness of the Japanese.