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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The caucuses are in the Middle East. I guess you could also claim Asian descent since so many of the territories conquered by Ghengis have his genes.

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