# Do Americans get too much information about Jewish culture, relatively speaking?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-americans-get-too-much-information-about-jewish-culture-relatively-speaking/493037
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [April 14, 2009, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-americans-get-too-much-information-about-jewish-culture-relatively-speaking/493037 "2009-04-14T04:55:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-americans-get-too-much-information-about-jewish-culture-relatively-speaking/493037/81 "2009-04-14T21:14:32Z")
Meh. Everyone knows _Fanfare for the Common Man_, but I doubt 1 person in 1,000 knows who Aaron Copeland is.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2009, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-americans-get-too-much-information-about-jewish-culture-relatively-speaking/493037/82 "2009-04-14T21:21:00Z")
There are plenty more famous gay Jews from Brooklyn. Lou Reed, for instance.
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### Author:  [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2009, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-americans-get-too-much-information-about-jewish-culture-relatively-speaking/493037/83 "2009-04-14T21:36:13Z")
> [@pravnik](#):
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> Jews don’t have a single comic strip
You’ve apparently never seen [_Edge City_](http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20090414&name=Edge_City).
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### Author:  [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2009, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-americans-get-too-much-information-about-jewish-culture-relatively-speaking/493037/84 "2009-04-14T22:26:25Z")
I don’t quite agree with the OP. The average person (I’d say the average person almost worldwide since American television and film are imported by nearly every other country) knows more names and symbols of Judaism than our small numbers would imply. But, they rarely have an idea what those names and symbols mean. There’s an episode of Seinfeld where passengers on an airplane discuss what kosher means. None of them gets it right. Peter Griffin of Family Guy knows Jews don’t eat pigs but has no other knowledge of kashrut.
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### Author:  [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2009, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-americans-get-too-much-information-about-jewish-culture-relatively-speaking/493037/85 "2009-04-15T00:26:22Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#):
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> You’ve apparently never seen [_Edge City_](http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20090414&name=Edge_City).
Okay, but even still, that’s a 2 to 1 hillbilly ratio.
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2009, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-americans-get-too-much-information-about-jewish-culture-relatively-speaking/493037/86 "2009-04-15T01:02:07Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#):
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> Roman Catholic rites and clerical costumes are much more distinctive than the Protestants’. There’s also the dramatic usefullness of Confession as a plot device.
About the Christianity is Catholic link. It seems like a lot of their examples of Catholic priests…uh, aren’t.
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