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> Jobs didn't look stereotypically middle eastern. No kidding. Many people in the Middle East are completely "white", by every definition. In fact, it's amusi
by chimeracoder 11y ago
> Jobs didn't look stereotypically middle eastern.
No kidding. Many people in the Middle East are completely "white", by every definition.
In fact, it's amusing that the word "Caucasian" has been corrupted into a euphemism for "white", given where the word comes from....[0]. (Most people who are Caucasian aren't even white!)
While we're on the topic, the most pale and fair-skinned people I've met in my life were not European; they were Indian (Kashmiri). People have this notion of what regions stereotypically map to which skin tones, and this doesn't actually reflect reality at all.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus_Mountains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus_Mountains
- elektromekatron 11y agoFor added comedy points, the word 'aryan' means Indo-Iranian, at least according to Tolkien, who I suspect knows a thing or two about the meanings of words. http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/i-have-no-ancestors-of-that-gifted.html http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/i-have-no-ancestors-of-...
- akkadian2 11y agoUmm, it means white. As in "mountain covered in snow" is white.