Our racial history is so screwy. Asians actually sued to be classified as white ( mainly for immigration reasons ). "Instead, he claimed that Japanese people s

Our racial history is so screwy. Asians actually sued to be classified as white ( mainly for immigration reasons ). "Instead, he claimed that Japanese people should be properly classified as "free white persons"." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozawa_v._United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozawa_v._United_States "Instead, he attempted to be classified as a "free white person" within the meaning of the Naturalization Act based on the fact that Indians and Europeans share common descent from Proto-Indo-Europeans." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Bhagat_Singh_Thind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Bhagat_Singh_... One of the reasons "caucasians" came into our lexicon is because we were having trouble defining non-white whites. So indians and persians could be causians, but not white which is primarily used for northern europeans. And even better one is in the early 20th, after we pretty much wiped out all the natives, the government decided to offer subsidies to the native americans. The native american population increased like 600% within a few years ( aka lots of non-natives claiming to be native to get the goodies ). The situation is even wackier in central and south america where their racial history separated races by gradients of skin colo with white on the top and black on the bottom.