And I'm hardly religious, but it is a key part of my cultural reality. And I also know from my travels elsewhere that the idea of secular Jews doesn't make sense everywhere (I met, for example, many conservative Jews in Australia, but no secular ones that I can recall), so people often ask me things I have no feelings or answers for. And while it's hideously uncomfortable to be addressed by Germans about Jewishness as a racial identity, since it's an ethnic identity for me more than a spiritual one... what am I gonna do? It's just WEIRD.
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And I'm hardly religious, but it is a key part of my cultural reality. And I also know from my travels elsewhere that the idea of secular Jews doesn't make sense everywhere (I met, for example, many conservative Jews in Australia, but no secular ones that I can recall), so people often ask me things I have no feelings or answers for. And while it's hideously uncomfortable to be addressed by Germans about Jewishness as a racial identity, since it's an ethnic identity for me more than a spiritual one... what am I gonna do? It's just WEIRD.