[wongarsu]

Not sure how in an American context you can qualify people from the Middle East as Non-Minority? If anything they would have to be category 2 (Asian or Pacific Islander), since the Middle East is located in Asia. But really, that list is missing a couple dozen categories, or at least an "other" category.

[fortran77]

Two of my four grandparents are from Gaza, expelled in 1929. That side of the family has been there for “ever” as far as we know. (The other two grandparents are from Belarus of mid-Eastern ancestry). We are not considered a “minority” in the United States for purposes of “diversity hiring” because we are Jewish.

[tartoran]

With Jewish it is equally confusing as they are considered white while at the same time a minority of sorts if taken by religion, though there are jews of many varied ethnicities. The moral of the story is that trying to clasify people into incongruent groups is a nonsense.

[Jensson]

The official USA racial classification guidelines says that middle east should be classified as white. That is why.

[fortran77]

Many consider mid-easterners to be "people of color", for example "Vox" magazine: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/8/18272072/il...