Have you have met an Arab or Middle Eastern person who you thought could have passed for a white person?

[Anonymous]

I ask since people think Arabs and Middle Eastern people are a separate race from the Caucasoid race (mainly referred to as the "white race") when in reality, a lot of Arabs and Middle Eastern people look very similar in appearance toward Southern Europeans (Sicilians, Greeks, Southern Spaniards and Southern Portuguese). Hell, some Arabs can even have blonde hair, pale skin and blue eyes and here's a picture of one.

Here's a picture of an Middle Eastern girl (Persian) who could have easily been mistaken for a Sicilian/Southern Italian.

I feel like the only reason why many "white" people from the US and from some European countries don't consider Arabs and Middle Eastern people to be "white" are because of obvious racial stereotypes since to them, an Arab or a Middle Eastern person has to be a brown or tan-skinned Muslim.

Yes

No

The world needs to stop over-obsessing so much about people's race or physical appearance or "racial purity".

Others

[Beerhero]

Very few of them LOOK LIKE caucasians, but they're NOT, biologically speaking.
Being caucasian It's not only about skin/hair/eye colour, but also about numerous other details (DNA it's not so simple) like the shape of the skull, nose and eyes for example.

Map of the actual caucasoid distribution in the world:
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As you can see the region near Middle east called CAUCASUS is considered caucasian, because is their native place, but the majority Arab world is not, because Arabs conquered that world from the caucasians.

So arabs are not Caucasians, hence they're not white
No racism, it's just biology

[xAlexis]

Race is just a messed up made up concept. There are definitions of Caucasian, in an American sense, it means European.

In a technical sense is a skull shape which extends all the way from South Asia, Middle East, North Africa and Europe. This is because all these areas had climates that allowed these people to develop the features of what many believe a "Caucasian" skull to be. Ask why many Indians, Middle Easterners, etc look like "Europeans" but just very dark.

And there are many light skin Indians and Middle Easterners and some who ever have light eyes and hair!

[Jono84]

I don't understand why people think that nationality, religion or skin colour (color) is so important because when you really think about it we're all human and we all end up dead. So why worry about something so Petty like nationality, religion or skin colour (color) when we should be living our lives.

[BeautifulPromisesx]

Yes my SO is Arab and he has days where he looks white then some days he looks just so brown. Depends on the day.

[Anonymous]

Well i dunno about others but iranians are aryans and so are some europeans so i don't see any racial differance

[KaithlynneZoë93]

I can tell when someone is Arab/ Islamic. There's just something...

[Asker]

How? By the way they dress or how they talk?

[KaithlynneZoë93]

Hair texture, skin texture (even if it looks white) ...

[Asker]

Even if they have blonde hair and blue eyes, you can still tell if they're Arab or Middle Eastern?

[KaithlynneZoë93]

The blonde hair always looks fake on Arab people or (when its real) it's a mixture like dirty blonde... and the blue eyes usually are striking its a blue I've never seen before

[blondfrog]

You wouldn't be able to tell if you saw me.

[xAlexis]

I can't. Gigi Hadid and her father look like regular tanned Americans of European ancestry to me. George Clooney's wife, Amal looks like Anne Hathaway and is very pale too!

[blondfrog]

Yes a good amount of Arabs or other types of middle easterns like Assyrian, Kurdish, etc. that could pass as white in places like Syria, Iraq, Iran like you mentioned and other countries. I am actually Kurdish and I had blonde hair and am very white before I lost my hair. This was me.
https://i.imgur.com/aA9cdNn.png?1

[qdoek]

Yep. Family members of me in Israel could perfectly well be seen as white. No, they are not Ashkenazi

[VeritasLuxMea98]

Arabs are NOT White-European. Get the fuck over it.

[Asker]

Maybe not culturally European but they still fall under the same Caucasoid (anthropologically) race as the white Europeans. Believe whatever you want but you can't deny biological facts of the Caucasoid race, lol.

[VeritasLuxMea98]

No they don't. OUR VERY DNA IS DIFFERENT. Look up the work of the Molecular Biologist James Watson if you want some answers. ARABS ARE NOT WHITE AND THEY NEVER WILL BE. Southern Europeans aren't even fully White. Unless you have European blood, colored eyes, and light hair, then you are not White.

[Beerhero]

Arabs are not caucasians, but southern europeans are, It's not only about skin/hair/eye colour, but also about the shape of the skull and a lot of other factors, just search on the internet, there are a lot of sources =)

[cth96190]

Racial purity is everything, because extinction is forever.

[VeritasLuxMea98]

^^^^^^^ Veritas

[cth96190]

This is a scene from a German comedy called Look Who's Back.
It sums up race mixing reasonably well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbyx-Ad6yXM

[Anonymous]

Can you be more vague? If she's persian she's not arab...

[Asker]

Yeah I know. I never said Persians are Arabs. I've tried making a distinct difference between Arabs and Middle Eastern people by stating "Arabs AND Middle Eastern people". However, people have the tendency to lump those two into the same group, along with South Asians (India, Pakistan, etc.).

[Cowardscrossplanet]

I'm a middle easterner/North African with Greek and slavic ancestry