>> It also seems a bit tricky to apply modern US-centric supposed racial categories (white/non-white, for whatever vague definition of white) to millennia old M

>> It also seems a bit tricky to apply modern US-centric supposed racial categories (white/non-white, for whatever vague definition of white) to millennia old Mediterranean civilisations. How could we even really know for sure what the racial makeup of ancient Egypt precisely was and how it would relate to any modern notions? It’s almost as though racial differences are socially constructed based on arbitrary criteria derived from outward-facing physical appearances and the foisting of tropes and stereotypes upon those socially constructed categories, thus perpetuating the false notion that those categories are natural in origin.