[mangosteenjuice]

Fun fact: Nearly all formerly-Ottoman ethnicities are classified as "white" in the US. The average American considers "Muslim" a race, but the average Muslim is considered "white" under the United States' official designations.

[xyzelement]

Yeah this is actually ridiculous. I am an immigrant to the US, olive skinned but from Eastern Europe where I also stood out as an obvious ethnic minority, yet on US demographic measurement, I am as white / universe as Bob Smith whose ancestors came on the mayflower.

[pinkmuffinere]

My dad is Persian, I grew up in Turkey, and my only citizenship is USA. I very much feel this struggle. At the same time, there’s no way they could make a box that feels like it “fits” me

[mixmastamyk]

Les Earnest on the subject:

https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/les/mongrel.htm

[geraneum]

There was a time when people from Finnland were discriminated against in US as they were not considered “white” because of their language being of Uralic origins and not Indo-European.

That’s how ridiculous it was/is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_whiteness_in_...

edit: typo