#18 Jews

From following Jewish footsteps into the Deli business, dry cleaning, and investment banking to sharing Christmas Dinner together, Asians and Jews got a lot of love. We both use the Lunar Calendar, we find each other tolerable, and if we're forced to do interracial business deals, there's no one else we'd rather sit down with.

Both Asians and Jews have very similar family characters as well. Frequently, children are berated by OCD mothers and ethnocentric grandmothers who LOVE making embarrassing cultural commentary when our "goy" friends are around. At the moment of birth for both groups, the OCD mom wants to see their children rocking the best Bergdorf Goodman has to offer underneath an Ivy League Issue Cap and Gown in approximately 22 years. 3 years later, they should add another graduation ceremony, and 6 months later, they should marry either an Asian or Jew and have kids, or, adopt them from China and move to the Upper East Side. This is the Jewish-Asian-American Dream.

Our mothers share a dream, our grandparents share a distrust of black people, and we both love Char Siu Pork (non-kosher Jews that is), which my man Peter Shapiro claims is, "The food of the Jews". Additionally, Asians respect chip stackers who keep the money in the neighborhood a la Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, P.A. With all this taken into consideration, it's safe to say, if there was no Confucian Analects, we'd be following the Torah. Lastly, on a semi-personal note, we are both feeder races for The University of Michigan, shout out to all my Zingerman's fans! (It's semi-personal cause I was the one Asian w/o grades to go to Umich, but my girl did, so I guess I am attending vicariously)