Who is White to you? Multiple choice.

[Tabiti]

Precisely, they dont, but according some people as well as themselves they do look white, just as in America where in the census these people are counted in as white.

I think Mexicans are put in separate category "Hispanic/Latino".
Arabs are labeled "Middle Easterners".

[Luern]

Easy guys, the prose isn't Boerseun's. It's David Lane's.

[Tabiti]

Easy guys, the prose isn't Boerseun's. It's David Lane's.

Yes, I've read it some years ago, but prefer to stay silent

[Jamt]

What the hell?

[Luern]

Yes, I've read it some years ago, but prefer to stay silent

How shocking. At least it was short, you still wasted a bit of your time but not too much.

[Æmeric]

I think Mexicans are put in separate category "Hispanic/Latino".
Arabs are labeled "Middle Easterners".

Mexicans, Guatemalans, Cubans. Puerto Ricans etc... are classified as "Hispanic", the term used by the US government as an attempt to create a meta-ethnicity for mixed raced persons with Hispanic surnames. It is a ethic catagory, not racial. Many Hispanics who are mixed-race are also counted as White which screws up demographic statisitics for the US. You have to look for non-Hispanic White to get White statistics. Middle Easterners are counted as White but they are still less then 1% of the US population.

For those who boast of their "purity," you have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents and so on. Go back 500 years or so and you have a million ancestors.
A few more generations and everyone who ever trod the lands of Europe is your ancestor, including Huns, Mongols and Moors. There are no 100% pure Aryans as per 10,000 years ago. But we still do exist as a distinct and unique biological entity.

Pedigree Collapse. Just because at some point your number of potential ancestors surpasses the number of persons alive at that point doesn't mean you are descended from everyone alive at that point. At 30 generations - the Middle Ages - you have over one billion 28xgreat grandparents. The reality is many of those persons will show up in your pedigree (if documentation was possible) 1,000s or even 100s of 1,000s of times. For some persons a few thousands individuals may account for 99% of your ancestry at that point. And remember you have more ancestors 16 generations removed from yourself then there are genes in the human genome.

[Tony]

so I take it you would accept any Lebanese, Mexican or Iranian as your kinfolk.

any is as much absurd as wanting to deny that some Lebanese , Mexican and Iranian are actually white , I don't see the scandal.
For example this woman is Iranian and still looks white/caucasian/european to me.

[Germanicus]

any is as much absurd as wanting to deny that some Lebanese , Mexican and Iranian are actually white , I don't see the scandal.
For example this woman is Iranian and still looks white/caucasian/european to me.

Add 30 years and 70 pounds, then we will see if she still looks european.?

[Beorn]

Add 30 years and 70 pounds, then we will see if she still looks european.?

Add 30 years and 70 pounds, who's looking?

[Kempenzoon]

any is as much absurd as wanting to deny that some Lebanese , Mexican and Iranian are actually white , I don't see the scandal.
For example this woman is Iranian and still looks white/caucasian/european to me.

Who cares about looks like?

"Looking white" isn't enough to be European.