I'm not knowledgeable enough to be able to draw that distinction, but what I can say is that several people close to me fit that description and look at themsel

I'm not knowledgeable enough to be able to draw that distinction, but what I can say is that several people close to me fit that description and look at themselves as white-passing PoC, due to the ways they've been treated as a separate group from European-origin white people.