You hit on a very good point that a lot of people miss: the entire concept of "race" is a social construct that can and does change over time and even depending

You hit on a very good point that a lot of people miss: the entire concept of "race" is a social construct that can and does change over time and even depending on who you talk to. Not too long ago, people of Jewish descent weren't considered "white." [0] Neither were Poles or other Slavic people, Roma, Italians, Greeks, most Eastern Europeans, etc. Some people even omitted the Irish. "White" exclusively meant Anglo-Saxon and Northern European western Christian (mostly Protestant, though some Catholics were included) descent. These days, most of these people would be considered "white." It's not perfect, but there's a bit of a parallel to this in history: during the Roman period, the definition of "Roman" changed dramatically. At first, it was a citizen of the Roman Kingdom who lived within the city. Then it was extended to the Italic tribes after the Social wars, and eventually to the entire Empire (all free-born men, that is) under Emperor Caracalla. To put it another way, a "Roman" in 600BC lived in the city of Rome, spoke Old Latin and practiced the old Roman religion. A "Roman" in 1000 AD may have lived in Constantinople, likely spoke Greek and practiced Christianity. The entire definition of "Roman" completely changed over the course of 1500 or so years. It's one of the reasons I find "race" to be such a frustrating, silly and dated concept. Considering how much in common we share genetically with one another, classifying each other based on such arbitrary and ever-change definitions makes very little sense to me. I usually write "human" in the Other box. :) TL;DR what "white" is entirely depends on what people think it means at the time. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_whiteness_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_whiteness_in_th... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracalla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracalla