
Originally Posted by
TitoFan
So the question begs, at what percentage does one cross over to the white side? Or to the black side? Just curious, because these things need to be taken into consideration. I mean, if you were to meet someone on the street, and he's lilly white, you've got your opinion already formed right? But what if you meet someone who comes from black and white parents?
And I did answer it.
And to be honest it's a good question.
As for as white people
All whites are Caucasian, but not all Caucasians are white.
Dravidians (Indians, Pakistans, Afghanistan, Nepal, Maldives, and Sri Lankans) and Arabs (Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia) are considered Caucasians.
So this Dravidian is caucasian.
And these Arabs are Caucasian
Not because of skin color but because of things like face and skull structure
The original Caucasians originated in the Caucasus mountains as one group, some of them went north and became lighter and evolved different hair and eye colors, some went south developed darkin skin from the stronger sun.
Yeah sure within the Caucasian supergroup, it’s hard to say where “white” ends and “non-white” begins, it’s more of a continuum with Caucasians being less white as they move closer to the equator.
I guess if there’s anything that defines whites as a distinct racial group, it’s their variety in hair and eye colors combined with white skin. As you move toward the Mediterranean and eastward, that diversity gradually becomes less prominent until it disappears altogether with Dravidians on the “Dark caucasian” extreme.
This is also why some people fight over whether Italians are really white. As you move south in Italy, they become swarthy complexioned and you don’t see variety in hair and eye colors.
If they retained their whiter skin color and various eye and hair colors like N. Italians, their “whiteness” would not be in question. S. Italians are sort of at the borders of whiteness, like Turks, Lebanese, Greeks, some Persians.
How many whites exist or “who is white” is just a matter of where they decide to make the cutoff point somewhere between Nordic and Dravidian. Russians don’t think the immigrants from the Caucasus region are “white”, even though to me they look white. Yet some consider Persian and Lebanese white and even some Aryan Indians.
That’s where “white” and "race" as a social construct comes into play — namely, defining exactly who in that Caucasian continuum gets to join the white club.
Bookmarks