When do you consider someone not white?
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Bitch u guessed it — 3 years ago(November 20, 2022 02:24 AM)
no, Middle Eastern people and people from North Africa (Maghreb) are not white bc they are simply not granted the same white privileges that the common European has, privileges that hail from Europe's past during colonialism and empirism. the marker of whiteness here is therefore: European culture and national identity. if your heritage is not European, you are not granted white privileges, are forever foreigner or refugee, come from a different cultural sphere, from societies with different norms and values, belong to a different religion (Europe: Christianity vs Middle East/Maghreb: Islam). therefore Middle Eastern people and Maghreb people are called Arabic, not-white, even if their skin is almost as pale as the skin of most Europeans. a majority of East Asian people have a pale skin, too, yet they are not considered to belong to the white race either. i refuse to claim their skin colour is yellow or whatever racist **** whites came up with in the past, just to distinguish themselves from other races. the skin colour of most East Asians (Chinese, Japanese, Koreans) is as pale and white if not whiter than the skin colour of the average European. so, the actual skin colour is not relevant. "white race" means here, Western culture, Christian, white privileges. presumptuous, boastful, self-absorbed assholes.
if you're mixed race then you're mixed race.
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Pink Giraffe — 3 years ago(November 20, 2022 02:58 AM)
no, Middle Eastern people and people from North Africa (Maghreb) are not white bc they are simply not granted the same white privileges that the common European has
What a ridiculous statement!!!!
What I or you give them will never alter their DNA.
Your DNA is your race, that's what 23 & Me tests.
They do not test the privileges you were given!
The answer to the OP's question is: depends.
Are you talking about ANYONE who lives there? Including European natives who moved there and had kids there? Or are you talking about natives?
You will see many Europeans (and descendants) in countries like Lebanon (IIRC). Even if they only speak Arabic, and no European languages, they are still not original natives. They were merely born there. That gives them a piece of paper and a culture and language. It does not alter their DNA.
I don't understand what is so hard to grasp, here!
but I did stop reading your wall of text at my above quote from that, because I see this ignorance all the time.
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Pink Giraffe — 3 years ago(November 20, 2022 03:13 AM)
LMAO!!! That insult actually made me LOL when I got it!
But hey, I got you the facts. Are you from the M.E. yourself? I don't care either way but if so, look in the mirror and/or hunt down your ancestors best as you can. That way you'll know for sure!
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Bitch u guessed it — 3 years ago(November 20, 2022 03:35 AM)
no i'm not from the Middle East, i'm 100% white, 75% of Germanic descent afaik and 25% Slavic. my one grandma is from Poland.
thats all i know. i don't really care about races tbh. as Fugazi said above, race is a social construct, like gender binary and hetero-normativity, established a long time ago and has therefore no significance for me.
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Bitch u guessed it — 3 years ago(November 20, 2022 03:49 AM)
lol with all due respect, spotty, i couldnt care less if u think i'm wrong.
i know i'm right and that's not up for debate. i dont want to argue with you anymore, so lets just agree to disagree, okie?
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Millard — 3 years ago(November 20, 2022 03:03 AM)
When they season their food.
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️ — 3 years ago(November 21, 2022 11:50 PM)Well what if someone is genetically half black but looks 100% European? Everyone that looks at them just automatically assumes they are white. Are they not white even if everyone thinks they are and consequently they reap some benefit from it?
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