Eli5: Why does the US Government classify Arabs/Middle Easterners as white?

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So according to the US government, Arabs, Persians, Kurdish, etc people are white. Why is this?

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Dated an Afghani girl and she was whiter than me. The Caucasus Mountains for which the term Cacausian is derived, are in the middle east. People think Afghanistan is full of brown skinned people but they looks like this https://www.sharnoffsglobalviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/children-63175_960_720.jpg

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