yes state of mind but also blood. one is often downstream of the other.
>Spanish Blooded Mexicans have more ethnic Jewish in them than the Rothschild.
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/29/us/hispanics-uncovering-roots-as-inquisitions-hidden-jews.html
>At the end of the fifteenth century, the Spanish Inquisition forced many Jews to flee the country. The most adventurous among them took to the high seas as freewheeling outlaws.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Jewish_Pirates_of_the_Caribbean.html?id=23nJDKa0aqMC