I was lucky enough to get a subscription to one of those genetic websites due to suffering from Crohn’s, so I was able to find out my Ethnicity. No great shock, it turns out I am 100 percent Ashkenazi. ( Jewish settlers who established communities along the Rhine river in Western Germany and in Northern France dating to the Middle Ages.)
So genetically I am Jewish, also religiously I am Jewish. Although I was raised Reform I am studying to deepen my religious stance. I work with a group that partners you with an Orthodox Jew, and you arrange to study whatever topic related to Judaism you may have. I used to study Jewish ethics, now we are studying the actual Chumash.
Anyway, that is just me. The reason I ask the question is when I write diaries related to the holidays, I get responses from people that I never knew were Jewish writing posts in my diary
I ask just out of demographic interest. People (And I hate to say this this way, but no idea how else to say it, “Some of my best friends are...” come in all types and flavors. I have friends that would call themselves Christian, Catholic, Baptist, Hindi, Agnostic, Atheist, etc.
To me it is not the religion or no religion of a person that matters. It is the goodness in his or her heart that does.
I think we are all proud of who we are, and we should be, yet at the same time the proudness of who we are does not mean we under appreciate those from other cultures. It just means we look at the culture of our people and study it. It does not mean we, as any group member is perfect. Far from it, all cultures have their imperfections. No one or no group is perfect. But group membership is a powerful thing.