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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
Here is one answer, anyway. Culturally, Jews are isolationist. Sure, you're happy to interact with other cultures, but as the wisdom goes, shiksas are for practice.
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so are Gypsies, and Indians, and Chinese... there are many cultures that have a taboo against marrying people from other cultures.
if anything jews have more leeway - IMO the entire reason jewdaism is determined by the mother is so that when woman got raped in wars & prosecutions (as was pretty much the status qua throughout history), the resulting children wouldn't be pushed out of the community.
we also have david and solomon as cultural heroes, and they both married a shitload of non-jewish women, including the love story between solomon and queen shva that has become a staple of jewish folklore...