There are plenty of Iranians, Berbers, Palestinians, Turks, and Arabs that, if they were walking down the street in NYC dressed in jeans and a tshirt, would be

There are plenty of Iranians, Berbers, Palestinians, Turks, and Arabs that, if they were walking down the street in NYC dressed in jeans and a tshirt, would be recognized only as "white." I'm not sure on what basis you excluded them. For example: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/2018_Tehran_and_a_Photo_of_an_Persian_teenage_%283%29.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/2018_Teh... (Iranian) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Turkish_prime_minister_Tansu_%C3%87iller_in_Brussels.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Turkish_... (Turkish) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Naderspeak.JPG https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Naderspe... (Nader was the son of Lebanese immigrants) Westerners frequently misunderstand this but there are a lot of "white" ethnic groups in the Middle East and North Africa; the "brown" people there are usually due to the historic contact southern Arabia had with Sub-Saharan Africa and later invasions from the east. It’s a very diverse area of the world.