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> Italians, Greeks, and the Irish also used not to be "white". Are you thinking of the term "WASP" in place of "white"? Italians and Greeks are 'W' but not 'A
by err4nt 9y ago
> Italians, Greeks, and the Irish also used not to be "white".
Are you thinking of the term "WASP" in place of "white"?
Italians and Greeks are 'W' but not 'ASP', and Irish are 'WAS' but not 'P' — but I think all three would be considered 'white' by people all around the world and I don't think that has changed.
Perhaps where you live where's a different capital 'W' version of 'White' (contrasted to 'white'), but that's not how most of the world looks at these groups. Do you think the people living Italy, Greece, and Ireland believe they are excluded from being 'white'?
- temac 9y ago> Do you think the people living Italy, Greece, and Ireland believe they are excluded from being 'white'? For sure some of them are not white. Not that we should care much, unless we are dermatologists or something like that I guess.
- wolf550e 9y ago'tptacek is using the term "white" in its US Sociology definition of "belonging to the dominant class".