BTW, both Ashkenazi and Sephardi are European Jews (German/Spanish), and there really should be another culture, "Mizrahi", to symbolize Jews from Middle East and Persia. Today's Mizrahi Jews are conflated with Sephardi since they follow Sephardic traditions, which is probably why they aren't in the vanilla; but that "merge" happened after the Alhambra decree (1491) that caused Sephardi Jews to emigrate to Muslim lands - and at the time, they were different enough that Arabs divided them into two cultures, Musta'arabim (Arabized) and Moriscos (Moorish).