I did . Click on around $ 40 , 000 per year in the original post . <| sep |> Thielen or snead <| sep |> I certainly agree that the requirements to be accepted in a group are determined by the group itself . However , this is merely describing what people do , I am more interested in why a group would consider genetics an important requirement . The strength of my position that genetics should be negligible rests on the fact that no good argument can be made in favour heritage playing an important part in determining national identity . Very often it ' s nothing more than a banal bias wherein the correlation of genes with culture is misinterpreted as if the genes were a necessary component . I think the woman you were talking about would serve as a better example if we were talking about transgenders rather than cultural identity . I find American black culture to be the result of genes getting in the way of national identity , after a while the group that feels excluded will deviate and develop a culture of their own which is mostly inescapable to those who belong to it due to their genes , thus perpetuating the divide of what should be one culture . Am I Jewish ? Ethnicity is not a matter of opinion , a geneticist could tell anyone who disagrees with them to fuck off . The term Jewish could be confusing though , as it can be used to describe ethnicity as well as religion or culture .