So according to the US government, Arabs, Persians, Kurdish, etc people are white. Why is this?
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The racial system that divides people into White, Black and more is particular to the colonization of the New World.* As such, applying it outside of the context of separating european rulers from various laboring castes always runs into problems. Greece is way more like Lebanon than like Spain, where do you draw the “whiteness” line?
When Irish immigration was at it’s peak, they weren’t considered fully white. Ben Franklin wrote a letter moaning about how *German* immigration would destroy the white racial purity of the US.
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