Are Arabs White?

[angus]

Arab is one of those terms like Hispanic that doesn't convey a race.

That's kinda how I see it.  The problem, if there is any, must have arisen with the arabization, starting more than a thousand years ago, of lands occupied by folks with no arabian ancestry.  Yeah, like starting about 500 years ago many folks with no Iberian ancestry were hispanicized.  

Well, I know at least on Arab, from Iraq, who is about as white as a piece of paper.  I know other arabs who are decidedly not white.  A few I've met are sort of butterscotch, but I think most of them that I've met are either caramel or cinnamon.  

I still don't understand the OP.  What's the point?

[politicus]

I still don't understand the OP.  What's the point?

Again, read the are Spanish/Portuguese white thread. It originated there.

[angus]

I don't recall it, but Spaniards are white. 

I've never been to Portugal, but I assume that we can call the portuguese white as well.  Mikado's comments about hispanics, with which I agree, can be applied more broadly to include Iberianization (including imposed Porguguization) as well, if I may coin the term.

Arabs, like Hispanics, come in all sizes, shapes, and colors.  I've never met an Arab who was as black as a car tire, but I've met at least one who is a paler shade of pink than my ass (which almost never sees the sun as is very nearly as white as a piece of paper.)

[politicus]

I don't recall it, but Spaniards are white. 

I've never been to Portugal, but I assume that we can call the portuguese white as well.  Mikado's comments about hispanics, with which I agree, can be applied more broadly to include Iberianization (including imposed Porguguization) as well, if I may coin the term.

Arabs, like Hispanics, come in all sizes, shapes, and colors.  I've never met an Arab who was as black as a car tire, but I've met at least one who is a paler shade of pink than my ass (which almost never sees the sun as is very nearly as white as a piece of paper.)

Pretty easy to find that thread (it is recent and on IP) and it will answer your question about the purpose of/background for this one.

No need to discuss whiteness and Hispanics once more in this one.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Considering that being white is something both innate and achieved and desirable (especially by white people)...and that what you project is instead guilt and shame over your 'privilege' once you achieve it...Id hope the Arabs dont think so.

[angus]

No need to discuss whiteness and Hispanics once more in this one.

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No need for you, perhaps, and if you were the queen of the known universe then you could proclaim that there is no need for the rest of us as well, on penalty of death.  As it turns out, you are are not the queen of the known universe.  

There may also be no need for Mikado to post it, but he did.  I still have no idea what thread you were referring to, and I'm really not in the mood to try to look it up, but I do think that Mikado's analogy was reasonable, whether or not it was "needed."

edit:  on some level I agree that the hispanic analogy isn't really needed.  After all, I think my own grape analogy hit the nail on the head.   

[Donerail]

Anecdoctally, a friend of mine (Moroccan) checks 'African-American' if a form lists it as an option, but will check white if black is used instead.

[politicus]

As a curiosum I can tell you that in 1992 Danish Nazi leader Povl Heinrich Riis-Knudsen (at one point also SG of The World Union of National Socialists) was expelled by his comrades after falling in love with a Palestinian woman and claiming it was okay because she was "a White Arab". People have a tendency to define those things according to their own interests.