User talk:2601:600:C080:1CC2:4911:8D52:A66:8A8B

Decades of compensatory behavior modification and linguistic adaptation have put the Jewish religion in a 'special' class, a kind of hyper-semitisism of sorts. It always annoys me when an individual refers to his/her ancestry as Russian Jew (a single but common example). People treat it with kid gloves, at risk of being politically incorrect and declared to be antisemitic.

Se·mit·ic (sə-mĭtĭk) adj. 1. Of or relating to the Semites or their languages or cultures. 2. Of, relating to, or constituting a subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic language group that includes Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, and Aramaic. n. 1. The Semitic languages. 2. Any one of the Semitic languages.

Sem·ite (sĕmīt′) n. 1. A member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Near East and northern Africa, including the Arabs, Arameans, Babylonians, Carthaginians, Ethiopians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians. 2. A Jew. 3. Bible A descendant of Shem.

Jew (j) n. 1. An adherent of Judaism as a religion or culture. 2. A member of the widely dispersed people originally descended from the ancient Hebrews and sharing an ethnic heritage based on Judaism. 3. A native or inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of Judah.

Then, saying one is a Russian Jew, or a ???? Jew, etc. is like saying you are a Russian Catholic, or a Russian Protestant, or ... One is not a genealogical an ancestry of a Jew unless one is a Semite (an Arab, a Hebrew, a Babylonian, a Carthaginian, a Phoenician, or an Ethiopian).

If no one has asked your religion, why do so many Jewish people feel it necessary to tell you anyway?

A Russian Jew is not genealogically... ones ancestry/race is not 'Jew' but ones religion might be so ...so a Russian Jew, is a Russian of the Jewish religion. The annoying thing is that people of the Jewish Religion have managed to equivocate 'Jew' to an ancestry/race, though it can only be an ethnicity. Judaism (Jew) is the religion of the Hebrew genealogical group of Semite people. No other religion grants such 'status' legitimizing such a word-play. If one were to say "I am a Russian Protestant" when asked of my ancestry, it would sound deceptive; properly it would mean I am a Protestant of Russian ancestry. I usually don't speak up on the issue, however it is common in Wikipedia bio pages. To claim such is to answer a question of ancestry that was not asked, with a religious descriptive most might not be interested in knowing. The Jewish religion is equal to status to any religion, no greater and no lesser, so Jewish self promotion is annoying, unless it is specifically relevant to the discussion.