More people in LATAM (not Argentina/Uruguay) or the Mideast (not Yemen/Oman) who pass as Euro?

[Tooting Carmen]

I asked this in Spanish in a partly-related thread: https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...=1#post7550128

When comparing Latin America (minus Argentina and Uruguay, where most people do look Euro) versus the Middle East (minus Yemen and Oman, where hardly anyone does at all), which of the two regions has more people per capita who can pass in Europe? While this might sound ridiculous at first, I actually think that there are more Kavkazians, Turks, Lebanese, Syrians, Iranians and Northern Iraqis who would pass somewhere in Europe than there are Dominicans, Southern Mexicans, Northern Central Americans, coastal Colombians, Ecuadoreans, Peruvians or Bolivians who would.

[mitalit]

Middle East if you do not include the Arabian Peninsula

[Tooting Carmen]

Middle East if you do not include the Arabian Peninsula

Still, I'd even wager that Saudis, Emiratis etc are no less "European-like" than most Guatemalans and Bolivians.

[axel.aleman]

Still, I'd even wager that Saudis, Emiratis etc are no less "European-like" than most Guatemalans and Bolivians.

Estas seguro, porque las veces que he preguntado si paso por MENA además de Marruecos o Egipto me dicen que me puedo volar en la península arabiga

[Italicus]

That really depends. Obviously a country like Lebanon is going to be much whiter than Chiapas or Peru. However if we compare Lebanon to South/Southeast Brazil, West/Central Cuba and Norheast Santiago, Lebanon is going to be less white.

[Tooting Carmen]

Estas seguro, porque las veces que he preguntado si paso por MENA además de Marruecos o Egipto me dicen que me puedo volar en la península arabiga

(1) I said excluding Yemen and Oman, where SSA admixture is high and even the non-SSA admixed Arabs still look very different to Europeans. (2) Aside from that, Gulf Arabs still look more Caucasoid than many Latin Americans (and North Africans, for that matter).

[Tooting Carmen]

That really depends. Obviously a country like Lebanon is going to be much whiter than Chiapas or Peru. However if we compare Lebanon to South/Southeast Brazil, West/Central Cuba and Norheast Santiago, Lebanon is going to be less white.

How do you think Iran would compare to most of Latin America in this regard?

[Hasien]

My dad despite being less euro than me been ask at those small groceries store by the Arab owners In Arabic If he's gulf Arab or Afghanistan or Turk

[Italicus]

How do you think Iran would compare to most of Latin America in this regard?

Whiter than most. But not as white as the places I just described.

[Tooting Carmen]

My dad despite being less euro than me been ask at those small groceries store by the Arab owners In Arabic If he's gulf Arab or Afghanistan or Turk

That's the point: preconceptions notwithstanding, I would actually say that, excluding the obvious caveats I mentioned in the OP, the Middle East is at least the equal for Latin America when it comes to "whiteness".