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What makes jews look jewish?

Why do jews look different than other people of the same ethnicity? For example, a Polish jew looks different than a Polish gentile. A Russian jew looks different than a Russian gentile. A Persian jew looks different than a Persian gentile. etc. Jews have specific facial features regardless of race or ethnicity. They tend to have long narrow teeth, gummy smiles, hook noses, and eyes that have a particular shape and expression that other ethnicities don't have. I have good jewdar and can usually tell when someone is Jewish without them telling me just by examining their facial features. So, my question is, what causes these facial features? Are these facial features that were inherited from the original middle eastern Jewish tribes? Or is it due to inbreeding in the Jewish community?

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  • Kevin7
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Jews originate in the Near East ,they resemble non-Jews of the Near East region. Jews can be of any race or ethnic group ,but the vast majority of Jews descend from the Hebrews of the Near East

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    > What makes jews look jewish?

    Stereotyping.

    In what way do Lisa Bonet and Scarlett Johansson look Jewish?

    Or - lets go the other way - Adam Sandler and Kirk Douglas?

    > Why do jews look different than other people of the same ethnicity? For example, a Polish jew looks different than a Polish gentile.

    A Jew from Poland is not of the same ethnicity as a Polish person.

    > A Russian jew looks different than a Russian gentile.

    Russia has 70 or more ethnicities. Jews are one of these 70 or more groups.

    > A Persian jew looks different than a Persian gentile.

    IMO - Jews look quite similar to Persians.

    But that's coincidental -- again - Persia has several ethnic groups (I've seen arguments even on this group about how this ethnicity or that are not "true Persians"). Jews are one of the several ethnicities in Persia.

    etc.

    > They tend to have long narrow teeth, gummy smiles, hook noses, and eyes that have a particular shape and expression that other ethnicities don't have. I have good jewdar

    Oh.

    So - never mind - you're just a Nazi moron - and here I was writing an actual answer.

  • 4 years ago

    There genes are 100% Ayrab.

    Pollacks are 100% white.

    Simple.

  • 4 years ago

    We are not an ethnicity. There is nothing in our facial characteristics that make us look different.

    Source(s): Jewish
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