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> E.g. most ethnicity questionnaires label white as the descendants of the original Europeans and North Africans. So, for example Arabs and Berbers count as wh
by burntoutfire 5y ago
> E.g. most ethnicity questionnaires label white as the descendants of the original Europeans and North Africans.
So, for example Arabs and Berbers count as white in the US??
- vmception 5y agoSteve Jobs passed, and his heritage is all the way in Syria. A lot of people come to the US and inherit its institutions, because of the way they look, and drop all the baggage they experienced from the places they come from. It is very common for people to conform by changing their name and accent and dress style, if their skin color did most if the blending in for them. (Note that Just as many “white” people don't figure it out, and experience poverty or mediocrity which is also quite harsh in the US even if the living and food conditions are generally are decent.) The same concept has not been conducive to people with more divergent physical phenotypes like eye shape or skin color.
- edgyquant 5y agoSyrians definitely are Caucasian (unless they are 100% Arab I guess, but I’m not sure there’s all that many of those in Syria.) If Syrians don’t count as white I don’t see how Greeks can be or many other Balkan peoples.
- edgyquant 5y agoNot Arabs (and not 100% sure about berbers) since Arabs didn’t arrive until the Arab invasions in the 7-800s AD. Peoples idea about the northern Middle East and North Africa is relatively skewed by modern day demographics. This is why people poke fun at pictures of Jesus for not being Arab or black despite the fact he was likely to look similar to Syrians etc or other groups native to the region. They are projecting the modern day into the past.