Why Arabs Are "Technically" White

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  • @donotdisturb5286
    @donotdisturb5286 Рік тому +2566

    I don’t know why America is so obsessed with labeling and boxing people into categories 😭

    • @chillskit3086
      @chillskit3086 Рік тому +87

      Being White Isn't about you're hue more as you're genetics and origin, probably his dad do have Afro ancestry. I have family who are Spain Arabs and other family members who are North African Arab. Majority of Arabs are White due to the ancestry genetics.

    • @TURQUOISEEYES
      @TURQUOISEEYES Рік тому

      ​@chillskit3086 Wrong. The Middle East is ASIAN. They legally changed themselves by going to court to become white in the 1900's because Asians couldn't have American Citizenship in the 1900's. Look it up.

    • @cro8sandy
      @cro8sandy Рік тому +18

      Cos i m organized

    • @standingbear998
      @standingbear998 Рік тому +58

      it isn't America broaden your knowledge.

    • @1GoodWoman
      @1GoodWoman Рік тому +16

      Every place that has “race” on any document….for health, ID, any form…..uses identity in some way. Regular routine DNA testing in global healthcare will make changes in this, hopefully sooner rather than later.

  • @ToxicTerrorist
    @ToxicTerrorist Рік тому +1189

    I'm Egyptian myself and I didn't understand the reason behind why Americans obsessed with the race thing. we as Egyptian and arabs or north Africans have lots of skin colors. We do see it as customs and values more than skin tone.

    • @Scarwaz
      @Scarwaz Рік тому +35

      Yes but you Egyptians are brown people just like middle eastern people

    • @verofero
      @verofero Рік тому

      @@Scarwaz we have brown and light brown ,we also have black and we have white skin with blue eyes

    • @aureaahmed2749
      @aureaahmed2749 Рік тому +153

      ​@@Scarwazbut they're not always brown,and some Egyptians are black too. Kinda like desi people, colour can vary significantly

    • @Flopistan6969
      @Flopistan6969 Рік тому +1

      You right but accept it.

    • @MAKChaosLander
      @MAKChaosLander Рік тому +13

      It's not an obsession, they do that for statistical purposes.

  • @jinnfromouterspace
    @jinnfromouterspace Рік тому +317

    im REALLY surprised you didnt bring up the story of George Shishim. He is THE REASON arabs are now considered white in the US. He was a arab american police officer who arrested a prominent lawyers son and then faced a legal battle over his citizenship/racial status. They argued that being Lebanese he was a mongolian asian. Shishim argued he was white and ended up winning, changing the classification of arabs in a direct legal sense. He famously argued in court "If I am mongolian then so is jesus, as we come from the same land"

    • @arsbawlwin9940
      @arsbawlwin9940 Рік тому +41

      Ouuu that would’ve been some spicy sauce to include in the video!

    • @nousername7509
      @nousername7509 Рік тому +34

      To be honest Lebaneses can pass as white even among Europeans

    • @jaywee6430
      @jaywee6430 Рік тому +23

      Honestly Berbers , Arabs and Persians to some degree can pass as white

    • @bonbon-gl8qo
      @bonbon-gl8qo Рік тому

      ⁠@@nousername7509 you do know that their are Lebanese people with skin complexion that could also be described by the construct of “black” & pass as black in places like Europe & America just by their skin tone, so that’s not saying to much. Google “dark skinned Lebanese people.”

    • @bonbon-gl8qo
      @bonbon-gl8qo Рік тому +25

      @@jaywee6430 their are Arabs, Persians & berbers that can also pass as black.

  • @user-qx9zn2cj4e
    @user-qx9zn2cj4e Рік тому +727

    As a Saudi, I don’t consider myself white nor black. I’m light olive-coloured, some are more tan. But why should I be pushed to one end of the spectrum? The world isn’t “black or white”, pun intended.

    • @miserablySleepy
      @miserablySleepy Рік тому +6

      Wouldn't you technically be considered brown no offense

    • @goyam2981
      @goyam2981 Рік тому +34

      Thai people call Middle Easterners "white kaek", and dark skinned South Asians as just "kaek". Do you think this categorization makes sense? Europeans on the other hand are called farang.

    • @goyam2981
      @goyam2981 Рік тому +66

      I think only white people see other races and ethnicities based on skin color, which oversimplifies people's ethnicities and heritages. My example of Thai people is about facial features. Skin color comes second. East Asians are one group because they tend to have small eyes and fair complexion. Malays and Indonesians and people in Brunei are another group. Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis are in the same group. Middle Easterners and North Africans are another group. The world certainly is not just based on skin color.

    • @Azrael3176
      @Azrael3176 Рік тому

      Realistically the arab looking people are probably just mixed with black and white from 100s of years ago there literally in between africa and Europe

    • @Stp-n-r
      @Stp-n-r Рік тому

      Back in the days, the whole of Arabia was black. If you're "olive-colored" then you've got neanderthal admixture in your gene.

  • @SandfordSmythe
    @SandfordSmythe Рік тому +393

    I was stationed in Saudis Arabia. When I got back to work, someone asked me if they were white or black. I was stunned by this silly question, and I couldn't say anything, and she accused me of being racist and hidding it.There are many places where the question is irrelevant. Incidentally, I gained an appreciation of the Arab culture and a respect for the differences.

    • @johannesandersson9477
      @johannesandersson9477 Рік тому

      The question should be irrelevant. “Black” and “white” are useless categories created by ignorant people. Different ethnicities such as Berber, Turk, Albanian, Kurd, Inuit and so on do exist however. Just ask them

    • @nrgrlsd9931
      @nrgrlsd9931 Рік тому

      Except the fact that Arabs are some of the most racist people on earth. The "polite" term for black people is abd which means slave. Or they'll call you zinji which is also a slave but has the context of the word nigger.

    • @abuqadr629
      @abuqadr629 Рік тому +7

      Cool man, hope you had a great time over there.

    • @healthybangladesh8308
      @healthybangladesh8308 Рік тому

      clown@@Benedict-hz3wz

    • @OezgeSebisteri
      @OezgeSebisteri Рік тому +7

      Maybe it's not that important what skin color somebody has but it's definitely not a silly question.

  • @goawaygosh
    @goawaygosh Рік тому +321

    I’m now going to invent my own racial categories and theories, thank you for showing me how easy it is 🙏

    • @goawaygosh
      @goawaygosh Рік тому +17

      @@rafaelw8115 I’ll follow it
      And as long as at least one person’s being racist, my time won’t have been spent in vain.

    • @mkviis
      @mkviis Рік тому

      What you going to call it

    • @Data-xh9wh
      @Data-xh9wh Рік тому

      What are your pronouns?

    • @a-ramenartist9734
      @a-ramenartist9734 Рік тому

      ​@@mkviiscock asian

    • @goawaygosh
      @goawaygosh Рік тому

      @@mkviis I don’t know what I’m going to call it, but instead of race being determined by skin colour, I will judge people based on their foot shape.
      Of course, people with long 2nd toes will be the superior race, as toe length is an indicator of a persons intellect and values.
      If you would like me to confirm whether or not you are part of the ubermensch, please send me a picture of your feet. Thank you.

  • @olivierdols5556
    @olivierdols5556 Рік тому +187

    i hate the word ''race'' because most of the time people are discussing skin tone, ethnicity, lineage and nationality all at the same time.

    • @therealjacknewtown8122
      @therealjacknewtown8122 Рік тому

      That term was philosophically created by the sic bastard Christoph Meiners

    • @brcey
      @brcey Рік тому +6

      Right. Race is nothing but skin tone discrimination 😂

    • @yanrokbowl28
      @yanrokbowl28 Рік тому +9

      ​@@brcey That would be colorism, not racism.

    • @brcey
      @brcey Рік тому +1

      @@yanrokbowl28 “prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.” No it’s not just colorism. Specifically says racial or ethnic group..

    • @yanrokbowl28
      @yanrokbowl28 Рік тому

      @@brcey I'm saying colorism is skin color discrimination. Colorism is only a subset of racism.

  • @delphilily
    @delphilily Рік тому +290

    I'm Persian and from the Middle East. I've had many other Persian and Arab friends and let me tell you:
    WE DO NOT CARE about our race or skin color (whether we're pale or tan) or whatever! Why do Americans LOVE this topic? Oh my God

    • @fartz3808
      @fartz3808 Рік тому +16

      I know many Persians that're racist towards Arabs but probably more 'culturally' and not so much based on race

    • @delphilily
      @delphilily Рік тому +28

      @@fartz3808 yes, that's true. But there are racist people everywhere. Trust me, good and peaceful ones who have respect for everyone don't claim them.
      The point I was trying to make was about how I don't like how western media makes everything about race and wants to recognize everyone with labels that shouldn't be the priority, you know, mate?

    • @fartz3808
      @fartz3808 Рік тому +2

      @@delphilily Yea I get it

    • @_hesha_7092
      @_hesha_7092 Рік тому +1

      Reason for the obsession? Race relations in the US are decaying badly because it's being amplified for political gain. Divide and conquer. And the public completely falls for it. I grew up in the 80s and 90s and it wasn't like this.

    • @ribos2762
      @ribos2762 Рік тому +6

      oppressed vs oppressor, white are the oppressors and people of color are the oppressed so it's important to distinguish who's white and who's not

  • @كنعانالليبي
    @كنعانالليبي Рік тому +42

    Arabs are diverse in terms of skin colour

    • @Soul-co7ki
      @Soul-co7ki 2 місяці тому

      No they are not. Arabs have light oilled skin only and there are no such thing as black or white Arabs. You are a Berber you are not one of us.

    • @IbrarH-sn3oy
      @IbrarH-sn3oy 2 місяці тому

      ​@Soul-co7ki yeah he's a filthy barbar, messed up my hair really bad last time, piece of trash barber.

    • @ojjhtfdfgfe6557
      @ojjhtfdfgfe6557 2 місяці тому +1

      Lmao they ain't light

    • @Soul-co7ki
      @Soul-co7ki 2 місяці тому

      @ some of them are.

    • @ojjhtfdfgfe6557
      @ojjhtfdfgfe6557 2 місяці тому

      @@Soul-co7ki a minority

  • @Ali-aliraqi7000
    @Ali-aliraqi7000 Рік тому +158

    The Middle East is a diverse region and generalizing the label "Arabs" is very wrong

    • @salimd7842
      @salimd7842 Рік тому

      The Arabs are the real Semitic peoples of the Middle East. "Turks, Persians, Kurds,...etc"...they are not Semitic people, even their language does not belong to the Semitic languages....
      I have seen Arabs get 100% Middle Eastern in DNA test, but I've never seen a non-Arab get 100% Middle Eastern.

    • @jghifiversveiws8729
      @jghifiversveiws8729 Рік тому +44

      It's like Latino, it just means these people share a language and sometimes a culture.

    • @AzelVonAzrael
      @AzelVonAzrael Рік тому

      Middle easterns aren't arabs because of the race, they are arabs because they speak arabic

    • @tahaymvids1631
      @tahaymvids1631 Рік тому +23

      Arab is anyone who speaks arabic or has ethnicities from people from those countries. I am algerian arab.

    • @adrianblake8876
      @adrianblake8876 Рік тому

      Yeah, they're turks and persians, and kurds, and armenians, and while many in the ME like to ignore that, jews. And if you classify jews as white (and they had to), then the whole middle east has to be white...

  • @vishva8kumara
    @vishva8kumara Рік тому +111

    In ancient Ceylon, people were curious about outsiders. They traded with outsiders and even allowed them to settle. It has changed after Portugese took advantage of their hospitality. Even after that, the worst case for a foreigner would be to be suspected as a spy. In that case you would be detained in some fertile valley for about one year to be observed, and well fed. They are allowed to work, learn, trade and even teach their religion, and write books. There are many books written by several foreigners from different countries who were detained in open space for observation. If nothing against them were reported, they are allowed to go back with royal protection.

    • @Spencer_232
      @Spencer_232 Рік тому +6

      විශ්ව, ඔයා Robert knoxගෙ එදා හෙළදිව ගැන නේද කියන්නෙ. මමත් ඒ වගේ තව විදේශීය එළිමහන් සිරකරුවන් ගැන අහල තියෙනව.

    • @joeyjoseph4770
      @joeyjoseph4770 Рік тому +3

      is that the amongus lingo!?!!??
      @@Spencer_232

    • @Spencer_232
      @Spencer_232 Рік тому +3

      @@joeyjoseph4770 yup yup. Beep beep boop... ඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞඞ

    • @dboyagod
      @dboyagod Рік тому

      @@joeyjoseph4770it’s the Sinhala Alphabet.

    • @dboyagod
      @dboyagod Рік тому

      @@Spencer_232eka kohomada bn meh video ekata relate wenne?

  • @hamada75kha
    @hamada75kha 7 місяців тому +7

    I am Syrian .. a main example of a "middle eastern"
    My color isn't white isn't black isn't yellow....
    My skin is darker than white ؛ lighter than black
    But as Muslims we don't care whatever your color is
    The most important thing is your morals
    The one who fears God the most is the best

  • @Tybold63
    @Tybold63 Рік тому +66

    Just shows that racism is institutionalised in USA and have long way to go and "colours" are probably the worst option to categorize people anyway.

    • @tagon70
      @tagon70 Рік тому

      USA Isn’t the only place..India ,the Philippines ect.are heavy into skin bleaching..

    • @unknownable6396
      @unknownable6396 Рік тому +1

      Nothing to do with racism it’s bc Americans are not one skin colored and not all of them share the same history and culture unlike other countries that have one skin color and one history and one culture

    • @Tybold63
      @Tybold63 Рік тому +6

      @@unknownable6396 What is your point and you seem to embracing racism rather than condemn it? Your reply gives no answer or argument for anything.

    • @unknownable6396
      @unknownable6396 Рік тому

      @@Tybold63 my point is how can defining someone’s skin color bc his roots are lost make me racist?

    • @Tybold63
      @Tybold63 Рік тому +4

      @@unknownable6396 well why would you categorize them at all after colour is my point? We are all humans and it is how we are as individual that define us. Everything else is cultural not biological. If you get what I aim for.

  • @TheTerrainWizard
    @TheTerrainWizard Рік тому +65

    I’m of Armenian, Northern European, and Indigenous Ancestry, and I have been labeled “a white person who isn’t really white.” This comment was by a liberal.
    Armenians didn’t become legally white in the USA until 1923. 😂

    • @manniking233
      @manniking233 Рік тому +1

      The hell! Armenians are more related to the Caucasus than ANYBODY ELSE! America is just stoopid! Smh!

    • @JagdDachshund
      @JagdDachshund 10 місяців тому

      Armenians are white, Caucasoid, unlike Arabs who like Yemen's are mixed with black

    • @Quibblet
      @Quibblet 9 місяців тому +3

      Alvin and his chipmunk brothers are Armenian.

    • @joemama4473
      @joemama4473 8 місяців тому +1

      Armenians are white, but if depends on Michigan you will be white because no Sun, if you live in Texas you could get a good tan.

    • @TheTerrainWizard
      @TheTerrainWizard 8 місяців тому +1

      @@joemama4473 interesting you mention this, as my great uncle who immigrated to the USA and was brown.
      Are you Armenian?

  • @alexthekid1538
    @alexthekid1538 Рік тому +11

    For all the people in the common section who can’t seem to understand why Americans are so stuck on race, think about the fact that this country was built upon slavery. A system that was pretty much entirely dependent upon your race. This why people say America is a racist country.

    • @Timewalker13
      @Timewalker13 Рік тому +2

      it's also partially that being ethnic is almost fashionable at this point. So many kids I went to high school with wanted to be black so bad, they acted all "street" but lived in upscale houses and drove Porsches.

  • @the_demiurg
    @the_demiurg Рік тому +48

    My take on this matter is that genetics and how it manifests into phenotypes is much more complicated that it superficially looks like and we should stop using these categories to define human diversity. Ethnic and cultural characteristics are more precise and more true to how humans actually group together than any other framework, if we ever wanted to put people into such boxes.

    • @newyorka7
      @newyorka7 Рік тому +1

      I disagree bc race only becomes consulted when you change it as its been changed due to socioeconomic reasons. Race was supposed to be the simple fact that every race coke from the 3 continents of Africa, Asia and Europe.

  • @herooja
    @herooja Рік тому +77

    I have blond hair, green blue eyes and light skin, but evey time I tell someone that I am Arab not " white" the look on their face is telling how the idea of " color" is embedded in many people's minds, more than often I have to explain that Arabs are the historical continuation of so many different groups that historically lived in vast parts of the ancient world, basically The ME and NA, and as such will reflect this continuity in culture, physical appearance etc, I try to explain to them that the idea of race among Arabs was rejected by most, in fact when some Arab authors tried to define Arabs as a race, like the medieval Al Jahiz, they were challenged and basically had to retract such ideas. In fact the idea of being " Arab" was supposed to be " open " and the funny part nowadays is that the proponents of " Arab purity " are sometimes " nonArabs " in terms of origin like Saudi Mansour Al Balushi, whose last name indicates he is a Baluch from today's Pakistan, yet people like him call Arabs like Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians " remnants of Romans and Greeks , very strange when actually the archaelogical records shows that the 1st mention of " Arabs " was in Southern Syria in 853 BCE by the the Assyrians fighting a coalition of Levantine kings in the battle of Qarqar

    • @pirizzo
      @pirizzo Рік тому +1

      Is it your claim you don't have a race, and simply an ethnicity? I'd be fine with that, but I wouldn't want you to cut against normal identity for white Christians, which is so often the aim of people when they deny being Caucasian, which "white" is shorthand for. White Americans use white to have some group identity, which is much more cohesive than religion most of the time because white encapsulates a lot of cultural norms mainly stemming from the UK but also broadly from Western Europe.

    • @herooja
      @herooja Рік тому +4

      @@pirizzo how do you define ethnicity to begin with?

    • @pirizzo
      @pirizzo Рік тому +2

      @@herooja Ethnicity is a geographic designation for a group of self-identifying people based on shared religion or history for the last several hundred years. You classified yourself as Arab, which fits my definition. The only thing I don't like when it comes to discussions such as these is when people make the claim that they themselves are beyond classification to try to deconstruct another's identity.

    • @herooja
      @herooja Рік тому +7

      @@pirizzo fine I guess, but I would rather use culture instead of religion, culture can include religious practices, but also language, non religious traditions and practices, food, music etc. In many Arab countries, like Jordan,Syria ,Palestine culture is shared by people of different religions, in the area of Jordan where I grew up, Muslims and Christians identified as Arab and non religious culture is almost the same among them. Even some Armenian Christians identified as Arab by culture but Armenian Orthodox by religion, as was the case with local Circassians(Adyghe) and Chechens, who adapted much of the original culture to the local Arab culture.

    • @pirizzo
      @pirizzo Рік тому

      @@herooja The definition I provided made clear shared religion history within a certain region. It doesn't have to be just religion. Again, I certainly don't care if you have your own culture, defined by the way you'd like to define it. The only problem I have is when individuals like yourself, come into my country, which is the US, and claim that you're the same as me because we occupy the same place and therefore what I identify as doesn't exist. I'm a European American Christian, also known as a white American. We exist as a separate ethnicity regardless of whether it's blurry on the edges of the definition like it is with all ethnicities and cultures. The broad point is because you don't have a shared culture and history with me, you can't be part of my group, but my group still exists because there are tens of millions that identify with it, even if you are living among us. But I will reiterate that you can be whatever you identify with which exists in the region of the world you're from.

  • @p.fish_63
    @p.fish_63 6 днів тому +1

    9:30 Thats still colonialist thought! Im both Eqyptian and Irish, so im uniquely qualified to speak on this.
    Your misunderstanding stone henge, its a solstice calender. on the soltice the sun crests through the gates it was a significant tool for the celtic religion
    The pyramids are likely batteries but not confirmed. As is they are just rocks stacked in a triangle dude. The pyramids were built by slaves, stone henge was orchestrated by the druids who filled a role similar to Hindu Bramins.
    The Irish aren't white, Ireland, Egypt and India all declared independence from England together.
    The people your angry at didnt even exist when stone henge was built, "white people" as you described dont start to exist till around the 1300s ad in England.
    Educate yourself, one can become so liberal you're conservative again its a loop.

  • @yayo1280
    @yayo1280 Рік тому +11

    I think MENA region should their own category tbh.
    I am Arab and I am white skinned , my older brother who looks exactly like me is actually 2 shades darker than me (wheat color / tanned).
    In middle east in general people don't care much about the color of your skin

    • @youssefbouzi988
      @youssefbouzi988 7 місяців тому

      Because you are not real arab

    • @FireGodSlayer
      @FireGodSlayer 2 місяці тому

      Wrong. MENA doesn't exist and shouldn't be labelled together. IT's such a silly clownish name. North africans are berbers not arabs.

    • @ЭльзаСмит-о7у
      @ЭльзаСмит-о7у Місяць тому

      Я слышала от многих чернокожих что вы расисты по отношению к ним

  • @Zahi76547
    @Zahi76547 Рік тому +27

    *فالاسلام قال نبينا محمد ؛ لا فرق بين عربي ولا اعجمي ولا أبيض ولا أسود إلا بالتقوى ،، او بما يحمل داخله*

    • @YeahCain2
      @YeahCain2 Рік тому +1

      Lmao Islam is racist as fuck

    • @LastBrigadier
      @LastBrigadier Рік тому +6

      واما عن محمد وما استعبد من سود؟ فكان يُبيع الاسود بنصف مقدار الابيض.
      وهذا الحديث لا يُطبق هُنا، فهنا يُقال ان لا يُجد فرق بين العرق، وهذه اكذوبة، فلو سالته من احسان الناس في ركض والرياضة لقال هذا الرجول "السود"
      في اي حال، الحديث يقول ان لا يُجد فرق عند الله.
      اي كل عرق يختلف عن الاخر ولكن عند الله سواء

    • @LastBrigadier
      @LastBrigadier Рік тому

      فربما يكون الابيض حقاً اذكى من الاسود ولكن اضعف، وهذا ما نراه.
      Its called "Race Realism"

    • @freesoul6122
      @freesoul6122 Рік тому +1

      أحا أنت، دا ربك نفسه بيقول يوم تبيض وجوه وتسود وجوه، والحج محمد بتاع العيال كان عنده عبيد

    • @alexsalemo9137
      @alexsalemo9137 Рік тому

      Yea, we hear that but nowadays Arab are more racist than any others, even they hiding their blackness

  • @aloosh7775
    @aloosh7775 5 днів тому +1

    Iraqis, Syrians and Lebanese Arabs have a lot of common genes with Europeans, because Europeans originated from the Anatolian and Zagrosian homo sapiens that are modern day Iraqis and Levants.

  • @Donixdh
    @Donixdh Рік тому +8

    As a kuwaiti arab i never differentiated races and it never even crossed my mind until ive seen the american ideology about it like damn

    • @HELLO_KORO
      @HELLO_KORO Рік тому +2

      USA has been deep in racism while most of the world prefers colourism lmao

    • @ЭльзаСмит-о7у
      @ЭльзаСмит-о7у Місяць тому

      Расскажите черкожим живущим в арабских странах что у вас нет расизма

    • @e.q530
      @e.q530 Місяць тому

      @@ЭльзаСмит-о7у
      У нас нет расизм. Мы просто не привыкли столковаться с ними. Их очень сало.

  • @_Khanshah_
    @_Khanshah_ Рік тому +18

    Can we please stop categorizing people according to their skin tones💀💀

    • @SultanMuhammad-vc3do
      @SultanMuhammad-vc3do 7 місяців тому +1

      Well there’s only a few type of ppl
      black,brown,red,yellow,white
      That’s it

    • @raven4442
      @raven4442 3 місяці тому

      ​@@SultanMuhammad-vc3do 😂

    • @fadishuheibar6187
      @fadishuheibar6187 Місяць тому

      Ya it should be by region, like MENA

    • @azurechen123
      @azurechen123 25 днів тому

      ​@SultanMuhammad-vc3do
      no theres only two types of skin for people:
      Those who have them intact and those ive skinned alive🙏❤

  • @Jackfirecracker
    @Jackfirecracker 10 місяців тому +6

    Great video, weird editing at the end. I got hit with the ad expecting the video to keep going and make a conclusion, but it just ended. Just found your channel from the plant highs video and I'm sold on the subscription, but maybe think about video structure more a bit, this ended very abruptly. Looking forward to more content from you, though!

    • @Mettabeshay
      @Mettabeshay  10 місяців тому +3

      I love Comments like these. Thank you for taking the time give helpful advice

  • @edk487
    @edk487 Рік тому +53

    A lot of North Africans look white, Tunisians and Algerians could definitely pass for white.

    • @matthewmann8969
      @matthewmann8969 Рік тому +28

      Because they have lots of Non Med European admixture to them from the Vandals, Visigoths, And Vikings many that were slaves just as many Non Med Africans were like Nilotics And Sudanics yeah.

    • @sakurakou2009
      @sakurakou2009 Рік тому +1

      I dont think they are native to north africa cuz many french have lived in north Africa and married the locals and that why many of them look white, also after the fall of andalus many muslims of andalus who were Europeans have escaped to north africa, and the Barbary slave trade they enslaved Europeans in north Africa, so all that will get white looking people in those north african countries, they culturally arabized through so many of them dont know their origin.

    • @_VISION.
      @_VISION. Рік тому

      That's cause they are invaders

    • @Sara-dv2nj
      @Sara-dv2nj Рік тому +26

      @@matthewmann8969 Not really , European admixture in the Tunisian population wouldn't surpass 20% at best , we're racially north Africans , all north African popualtions cluster with each other and then Arabs( because of a proto Natufian population and Anatolian farmers ) and lastly Europeans ( because of the Anatolian farmers ).
      And yes some of us are white passing , but most of us are not , we're brown ( with all the shades) and we have our own phenotype .

    • @Darren_S
      @Darren_S Рік тому +3

      @@_VISION. Nope, they are the original North Africans. ❤

  • @drake5518
    @drake5518 Рік тому +89

    This system really only exists like that in the US, not in Europe though. It is obviously pretty nonsensical for a great many reasons and should be abandoned. Here they were even arguing about the use of the word "racial" in legislature that expressly forbids to collect and process data on ethnicity, political leanings, religion etc. when applying for citizenship. That was like 20 years ago. So they were basically trying to figure out a way to say it is illegal to collect such data using this category without using the word that defined the category because it is nonsensical to begin with and shouldn't be used anymore. Was quite the hickup for them. 😂

    • @harounslacker
      @harounslacker Рік тому +11

      I'm French and racial statistics are illegal here. I'm 46 and never was asked to state my ethnicity or race (which is a debunked concept) until I filled an aplication to a UK university : I was quite shocked and had to google caucasian to learn that in some places in doesn't just mean people from the caucasus mountain range

    • @puraLusa
      @puraLusa Рік тому +7

      ​@@harounslackerright, also european here. No one ever asked my "race" and it's oficial that we are all a mix of sorts not any kind of race but very much european with all kinds of shades. Any of us answering a census would have to tick pretty much most boxes all at once 😂

    • @Sten111
      @Sten111 Рік тому +6

      You obviously have not been to the UK....you cannot buy simple commodities without being asked your race.

    • @puraLusa
      @puraLusa Рік тому +2

      @@Sten111 lol 😂 great propaganda lies u got there.

    • @drake5518
      @drake5518 Рік тому +1

      @@Sten111 Well, you barely qualify as european 😅 But jokes aside, yeah I haven't but given it's EU regulation it kind of makes sense you would be the outlier.

  • @Kyle_Bu
    @Kyle_Bu Рік тому +3

    Swag video.
    My family is from Ghana.
    Also keep it up youre going to blow up soon. Congrats on your UA-cam success

  • @erik_havoc
    @erik_havoc Рік тому +9

    Really good video metta, great topic

  • @sjefkerolleman2094
    @sjefkerolleman2094 Рік тому +31

    Im a northern European Germanic to be exact
    And we don't see ourselves as white but as pale And we don't see other people as black but dark
    That black and white thing is an American apartheid The same as that African apartheid back then
    Beantwoorden

    • @coreylevine8095
      @coreylevine8095 Рік тому

      The Nazis use the American Jim Crow laws in Europe during World War II against Jews,Black,Gypsy,and shocking Slavs who is also white

    • @TommyVercetti-xp4xy
      @TommyVercetti-xp4xy Рік тому +3

      Because you're European this white term is only exist in the u.s not in you're country or other nationality in Europe

    • @jeffbillings-el6110
      @jeffbillings-el6110 Рік тому +1

      Behold , a hornest one 👍👍👍
      What you just said is the truth

    • @Sid0404
      @Sid0404 10 місяців тому +2

      "That black and white thing is an American apartheid." Wrong.

    • @actsfive30
      @actsfive30 6 місяців тому

      Why not brown?

  • @Levant_Edits
    @Levant_Edits 8 місяців тому +7

    As a Syrian, honest answer, Arab is not the race, Arab is Linguistic, you can come from an Arabic speaking country and not be racially Arab, there are white Arabs, Black Arabs and pure Arabs it depends where your from, I am a white Arab as I’m from Syria, Arab should not be a giant race including all Arabic speaking countries

    • @Lashkar-e-taibaa
      @Lashkar-e-taibaa 12 днів тому

      There’s no such thing as white in that way. Because a white skinned Chinese or a white skinned Syrian is zero percent Irish. Instead of classifying into white and black, you can say light skinned Syrian, dark skinned Arab etc

  • @kirmancki5759
    @kirmancki5759 Рік тому +4

    0:25 bro thought he did something while it literally says the ORIGINAL people of the Middle East, North Africa and Europe lmao.
    The Middle East and North Africa do have minorities of Black mixed people who are mostly the result of the slave trade.
    Mustafa is not an ethnic Egyptian. He is from Egypt but of Nubian descend.
    Also the term white is somehow idiotic. What actually is correct is the term West Eurasian or the very least Caucasian, because genetically they are correct. Skin color is secondary your brown uncle is genetically FAR FAR closer to a Swedish guy than a Sub Saharan African. This is a proven scientific fact.
    Need to do better research bro.

  • @juststop94
    @juststop94 Рік тому +28

    As an American of Southern Italian, African American and Irish ancestry, I stopped filling out that irrelevant nonsense years ago.

    • @Mettabeshay
      @Mettabeshay  Рік тому +5

      honesttly.... I have no idea why I never thought of that.

    • @juststop94
      @juststop94 Рік тому +4

      @@Mettabeshay especially considering I've been mistaken for every ethnicity other than the ones I am. I'm married to an Egyptian from Al Minia, and I've been mistaken for being Egyptian. In America, I'm constantly mistaken for being Latina. Rarely do people figure out my ethnic mix.

    • @Kenny-ep2nf
      @Kenny-ep2nf 9 місяців тому +1

      @@juststop94 pretty cool mix you got

  • @onlytruth4888
    @onlytruth4888 Рік тому +40

    Here in Denmark (and most of Western Europe) if we were to refer to someone by race we would use the correct word for that person’s ethnicity or nationality, and if we are not sure about either we would probably refer to them by the area they are most likely from. Fx. Eastern European, Scandinavian, south East Asian and Arabic. Hearing Americans still using these old terms such as white and black just seem so uncivilized or outright offensive

    • @jovemgafanhoto4512
      @jovemgafanhoto4512 Рік тому

      Stereotypes can be right in most of the cases but that don't work for us latinos, i could pass as portuguese, italian, french, spanish, latino and even arab.

    • @shueibdahir
      @shueibdahir Рік тому

      Wass up ese? Where's my money cabron? @@jovemgafanhoto4512

    • @AlejandroDaniel531
      @AlejandroDaniel531 Рік тому +1

      ​@@jovemgafanhoto4512Los portugueses, españoles e italianos también son latinos, ni eso tenemos propio.

    • @Altair-El-Haddad
      @Altair-El-Haddad Рік тому

      Arabic is the language arabs speak, my brother.

    • @holtimt
      @holtimt Рік тому +4

      Yet Europeans also refer to North Africans or Egyptians as arabs, while they are their own distinct ethnicities. Same goes for Irakis, syrians or lebanese. There's "culturally arab" and there's "ethnically arab". The latter only truly applies to Gulf countries.

  • @g.personal342
    @g.personal342 Рік тому +30

    This is a really good video. This deserves more views; very educational.

    • @kirmancki5759
      @kirmancki5759 Рік тому +3

      It actually isn't the census literally says the ORIGINAL people of the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.
      The Middle East and North Africa do have minorities of Black mixed people who are mostly the result of the slave trade not the original folks. Also Sudanese people are actually genetically mixed between Caucasians and Sub Saharans. Actually the term white is dumb. Caucasian is much more fitting.

  • @mugenryukyu199
    @mugenryukyu199 Рік тому +12

    They have Arabs in all colors if were talking middle eastern people they live on the peninsula connected to Africa n Asia while bordering Europe. Their generally mixed people.

  • @krisstarring
    @krisstarring Рік тому +63

    There was a time that Southern and Eastern Europeans weren't considered "white" either. Some Southern Europeans, such as Italians, Portuguese, and Spanish actually have some degree of Arab ancestry as well from the Moorish rule over those territories. Myself personally, being of part Portuguese and Sicilian ancestry tan easily and can turn brown in the summer time. It's seems pretty evident that some of my background came from the Middle East ultimately.

    • @dn822
      @dn822 Рік тому +7

      I never thought Italian,Spanish or Portuguese were white. They don't look white to me

    • @_hesha_7092
      @_hesha_7092 Рік тому +17

      How much Arab ancestry? Have you done a 23&me? Being 5-10% Arab doesn't mean you aren't white or European. Tanning also doesn't make you another race.

    • @Mulmgott
      @Mulmgott Рік тому +14

      @@dn822You are super wrong then. Compare the percentage of their blond and blue eyed populations to any non European country and they have a lot more of the people you would usually perceive as white.

    • @Dwazedas
      @Dwazedas Рік тому +5

      The southern part of Italy even is ON the African tectonic plate, so geopolitical boundaries aside, people from the southern tip of Italy are actually North Africans …

    • @dn822
      @dn822 Рік тому +1

      @@Mulmgott I might be they just don't look white to me....or what I perceive as white

  • @theoneandonlydiscorduser
    @theoneandonlydiscorduser Рік тому +11

    Dude i’ve been following u for a while on tik tok and i have to say i adore ur content, as a fellow egyptian sending love :)

    • @Mettabeshay
      @Mettabeshay  Рік тому +5

      I really appreciate that a lot. Are you also diaspora Egyptian?

    • @theoneandonlydiscorduser
      @theoneandonlydiscorduser Рік тому +3

      @@Mettabeshay i do live in egypt but i’m working on leaving when i can

    • @theoneandonlydiscorduser
      @theoneandonlydiscorduser Рік тому +2

      @@Mettabeshay how ever i dont find myself agreeing with alot of things about our culture

    • @ahmadfrhan5265
      @ahmadfrhan5265 Рік тому

      No we aren't white get lost. your race is deg-enerate and we are proud Arabs. there's nothing White about us Alhamdulillah

    • @chillskit3086
      @chillskit3086 Рік тому

      @@Mettabeshay Being White Isn't about you're hue more as you're genetics and origin, probably you're dad and grandfather do have Afro ancestry. I have family who are Spain Arabs and other family members who are North African Arab. Majority of Arabs are White due to the ancestry genetics.

  • @mauricioferragut1429
    @mauricioferragut1429 Рік тому +24

    Dope video dude, love the informational/humorous/self-deprecating style. Keep it up bro

    • @Mettabeshay
      @Mettabeshay  Рік тому +2

      Thank You So Much Mauricio!

    • @ahmadfrhan5265
      @ahmadfrhan5265 Рік тому +1

      No we aren't white get lost. your race is deg-enerate and we are proud Arabs. there's nothing White about us Alhamdulillah

    • @mugenryukyu199
      @mugenryukyu199 Рік тому

      ​@Chen Yung
      You have dark skin indians that look black in south india

    • @colinchampollion4420
      @colinchampollion4420 Рік тому

      We Mexicans are Classified as White as well

    • @ahmadfrhan5265
      @ahmadfrhan5265 Рік тому

      @@colinchampollion4420 No you are not

  • @willjapheth23789
    @willjapheth23789 Рік тому +28

    The US could probably add more categories that align with the overly board categories so they can still have contiguous data, but have categories that better reflect people's identities.

    • @TheAurelianProject
      @TheAurelianProject Рік тому +6

      The existence of categories shouldn’t even exist at all. The only reason it exists is to properly allocate victim points to certain groups and discriminate against those who don’t have enough points.

    • @willjapheth23789
      @willjapheth23789 Рік тому +4

      @DownWithHamas someday they should go, but the data still might be valuable for the government to enforce discrimination law, like they recently rejected redistricting maps in the south because it put too many black voters in one place, thus reducing their influence. It wouldn't be an issue if the South hadn't violated the Constitution for 100 years.

    • @bootmii98
      @bootmii98 Рік тому +4

      @@TheAurelianProject Well maybe instead of the flag of the whole country (associated more with Fatah than Hamas) you should have Hamas's logo in the slashed circle.

    • @TheAurelianProject
      @TheAurelianProject Рік тому +2

      @@bootmii98
      It’s associated with Hamas too

    • @nourahmed-sh2ox
      @nourahmed-sh2ox Рік тому +2

      ​@@TheAurelianProjectthat's not hamas flag

  • @Jeem196
    @Jeem196 Рік тому +22

    Great topic. The question is irrelevant for us. I'm lightskinned, probably the same skin tone as most White Americans, but my facial features and hair give me away as being not-quite white. Some Arabs are white, most are beige or light-brown, others are dark brown, and some are even black. We are Semites, our ancestral tongue is Afro-Asiatic, not Indo-European. I would like to add that *most* of the world is not as neatly-defined as American society wants it to be. The only reason they think it is, is because of how noticeably different white and black Americans look compared to one another. In most places, there isn't this 1 v 1 stark difference between two completely unrelated racial groups. The world is more layered and subtle. Argentinians got flack for not being brown enough during the World Cup. Many northern Indians are the same very light brown skin tone as Arabs are. This is completely ridiculous and arbitrary, in my opinion.

    • @agme8045
      @agme8045 Рік тому +1

      Totally agree with you. I’m from Argentina and I think the whole discussion about our football team was hilarious. Americans assumed brown and black people were underrepresented in our national team because we are racist, when it’s literally the opposite, football is one of the things in Argentina where brown people are the most represented in haha. But we simply don’t fit their narrative of what a Latin American country is supposed to be like.

  • @3WES-10
    @3WES-10 Рік тому +4

    I don’t understand why the western world talk a lot about the skin colour and how they categorise people and race. Is it that important??
    And after all that they call us a racist😑

    • @DocnoXXX
      @DocnoXXX Рік тому

      Not just the West. I live in Asia, and skin colour and other features are used to define categories too. The names are simply different

  • @Harold046
    @Harold046 Рік тому +8

    The case for Egypt is a bit complex, due to its location being a crossroad.West, South and East, you'd find at least three different skin tones. And according to representations from the Egyptians themselves, people from North Africa were the whitest of them all. As for the Egyptians themselves, being at a crossroad, and the target of many migrations and invasions, it's likely they ended up being a mix of them all.

    • @Bell_plejdo568p
      @Bell_plejdo568p Рік тому +1

      Nothing u said is true

    • @Harold046
      @Harold046 Рік тому

      ​@@Bell_plejdo568p Maybe not. Maybe nothing of it is true. It is, after all, nothing but science... and at that point, we're going thousand of years back, so obviously our sources for knowledge are very scarce and uncomplete.
      So yeah, it might not be true... maybe it will be proven wrong. But based on the current evidences that are available to archeologists and ethnologists, it's the closest thing from truth we currently have.
      Maybe the representations of the egyptians were actually inaccurate. All we know for certain is that phenicians and berbers were represented using whitish pigments, while nubians were represented with darker tones (black or bronze-like, depending on the tribe).

    • @justice70567
      @justice70567 Рік тому +5

      ​@@Bell_plejdo568p
      Yes it is , the old egyptians
      depicted nubians dark black, themeselves light brown, and lybians (maghreb people) light skinned.

    • @Harold046
      @Harold046 Рік тому

      ​@@EGYPTIAN_MUSLIM. ​You're talking about a completely different timeline. The occupations happened much later in egyptian history. Migrations happened far before any form of egyptian State even existed, during the prehistoric era.
      I'm curious about the very concept of "ethnically pure country". How do you quantify that ? Which countries do you consider ethnically pure, and why ?

  • @tmlforsyth
    @tmlforsyth Рік тому +10

    In the early 20th century, many Americans of Levantine descent sought to be classified as white, like Italians. Up until the 90s, most Arab Americans were Republican (and also Christian), like the Sununus of New Hampshire or Justin Amash. (Sirhan Sirhan did a lot to get Nixon elected if you think about it). Now it may have changed, but the census form included people from North Africa and the Middle East as white.

    • @God-ob9zs
      @God-ob9zs Рік тому +2

      They need to change north africans are black
      Wether they like it or not

    • @tmlforsyth
      @tmlforsyth Рік тому +1

      @@God-ob9zs Take it up with the Dept of Commerce

    • @God-ob9zs
      @God-ob9zs Рік тому +1

      @@tmlforsyth ngl these maghrebians need to understand they r not lebenese to b shitting on ppl with melanine
      Especially the women
      Women in north africa are as racist as black women

    • @famitsus987
      @famitsus987 Рік тому

      @@God-ob9zs cope

    • @famitsus987
      @famitsus987 Рік тому +3

      @@God-ob9zsthey are not black

  • @fadyazmy5686
    @fadyazmy5686 Рік тому +7

    as an egyptian this question never mattered t's more culture than color

    • @omarchanuvdjaxon1957
      @omarchanuvdjaxon1957 4 місяці тому

      As an Egyptian you are Coptic not Arab

    • @AhmedAbdulaziz-j1c
      @AhmedAbdulaziz-j1c Місяць тому +1

      ​@@omarchanuvdjaxon1957arab is not an ethnicity

    • @e.q530
      @e.q530 Місяць тому

      @@omarchanuvdjaxon1957
      لا دخل لك يا قبطي

  • @tereza1959
    @tereza1959 Рік тому +26

    I can't imagine how crazy it must be to non-american people when they see how much american culture is obssesed with race, your race defines everything about you (how you dress, how you are treated, the places you go to, the hobbies and likes you have), must be nice living in a place where your race isn't so relevant.

    • @redzard2015
      @redzard2015 Рік тому

      In any other country you would not care tbh

    • @asherl5902
      @asherl5902 Рік тому +2

      I confirm, as Spaniard, that here we do see all that as crazy. I think we most likely we don't even have any census about that, and the closest you can get is being descripted by your specific country origin as an inmigrant. The only place I've ever had anything to do with my "race" was answering US Americans trying to flirt with me and saying well intended but freaking coments such as "I love X race". I understand that different races there could develop some different cultural stuff while seggregation and so, but why are they STILL acting like if they where somehow sooo different?

    • @redzard2015
      @redzard2015 Рік тому

      @@asherl5902 As a "Hispanic" or the more accurate word, Mestizo, I can confirm that this is true

    • @nvmoondevotee28yrsago48
      @nvmoondevotee28yrsago48 Рік тому +2

      @@asherl5902
      Didn't Spaniards invent the casta system, a racial hierarchy in colonial LatAm? It classified ppl based on pure/mixed racial backgrounds, limiting social mobility for non-Euros & reinforcing discrimination. The system still has a choke hld on LatAm, some like 2 'mejorar la razuh' aka better the race by marrying whyt. It's y, to this day, black+mestizo+Native Americans dominate peasantry & working class, while whyt Latinos (criollos, of 🇪🇸 lineage) r part of the ruling elite. Not obsessed w/ race 🏎️ at all, huh? Ur countrymen invented the blueprint😯. Umm I guess it’s easy to forgot when ur not dealing with the consequences? Lucky u!

    • @asherl5902
      @asherl5902 Рік тому

      @@nvmoondevotee28yrsago48 What are you talking about? Nobody was talking about history, and if you wanted to point it, that could be indeed very interesting, you'd better have a little bit of respect. Did you felt somebody was attacking you, so you had to answer just to bring hate???
      I never said that Spaniards never have been racist nor that nowadays in Spain there's no racism. I only said it's very different, and the we see US cultural products talking about race is weird and nonsense to us (nowadays, of course). Certainly we completely moved away very luckily and totally disagree with the caste system in America, whose effects are still alive in Latam alone (since it's where people was affected by it, it's obvious), as you pointed. What shall we do? Bring a time machine to not have done it? Or would you prefer that we continued applying the very same casta system in XXI century Spain? Do you really think we're still like that? This racism in Latin America, as you're describing, is also different from the current in US and from current in Spain. Not to say anyone is beter or worse.
      But if you just want to talk about how evil and racist Spaniards are, I remind you that we also expelled all Jews and Moor descendants and ended with the natives of the Canary Islands, etc. Of course that doesn't mean we are nowadays antisemitic, for instance, but you don't really care about that, right?

  • @Kristoffer_hv
    @Kristoffer_hv Рік тому +18

    How tf does this have so little views. I saw this video and excepted it to have millions of views but it doesn’t even have a thousand

    • @ahmadfrhan5265
      @ahmadfrhan5265 Рік тому

      No we aren't white get lost. your race is deg-enerate and we are proud Arabs. there's nothing White about us Alhamdulillah

    • @actraxh1194
      @actraxh1194 Рік тому

      Thought the exact same thing ….wild

  • @redxlillard7880
    @redxlillard7880 11 місяців тому +7

    Bro like most of the ppl in these comments didn’t even watch the video lmao “why do Americans care about race” WATCH THE VIDEO

  • @nejad97
    @nejad97 Рік тому +1

    the production value of this piece is insane good sir. good job. good sir.

  • @mscsish
    @mscsish Рік тому +6

    Here in Brazil Arabs were ALWAYS white. The is no big visual differences between south Europeans and Arabs.

    • @Oyjsf
      @Oyjsf Рік тому

      Theres diff type of arabs tho. Levantine, gulf, north African etc

    • @Kenny-ep2nf
      @Kenny-ep2nf 9 місяців тому

      South Americans get it the most

  • @Khalid-fz3ov
    @Khalid-fz3ov 2 місяці тому +3

    In the time of the Arabs in the past, there was a big difference between each other from tribes, or from other races as well, and even whites, blacks and others, but when the Messenger Muhammad came and said there is no difference between an Arab or a non-Arab, any race, except in piety. He taught us this 1446 years ago. If you are a Muslim, you will know that race is not important for Arab Muslims because it does not help you enter heaven, so there is no racism among Muslims, and your color or race is not important to us as Muslims.

  • @birdy0090
    @birdy0090 Рік тому +10

    Summary
    0:00: ⚪ 미국에서 중동인들은 백인으로 분류되며 아랍인도 포함됩니다.
    2:57: 🌍 인종주의는 유럽인에게만 국한되지 않으며 역사적으로 다양한 문명에서 실천되었습니다.
    5:33: 📺부유한 소수가 백인 대 흑인의 구도로, 부자 대 가난한 자의 대립에서 눈을 돌리게 했습니다.
    7:56: 📜 역사적 인종 이론 소개
    11:22: 🌍 Blumenbach의 인종 분류로 아랍인과 북아프리카인이 백인으로 분류되어 현재의 인종 정체성에 영향을 미쳤습니다.

  • @bhka6423
    @bhka6423 Рік тому +33

    Middle easterners would be considered white since we and Europeans share the same ancestors. The prehistoric people who migrated to Europe came from Anatolia and Iran. Middle easterners are Caucasian (just like Europeans) and are closely related to them.

    • @MariaSanchez-kg2fl
      @MariaSanchez-kg2fl Рік тому +10

      Iran and Anatolia is not really the Middle East. Middle East is usually used for semetic speaking populations of africa.

    • @bhka6423
      @bhka6423 Рік тому +10

      @@MariaSanchez-kg2fl there’s genetically speaking no such thing as Semitic. Semitic-speaking populations descend from Natufian hunter gatherers and from Neolithic Anatolians. North Africans have high European farmer ancestry and descend from Eurasian/Caucasian groups that migrated back to Africa around 10,000 years ago. Other Semitic-speaking populations like Assyrians, Arameans or northern Iraqi Arabs even have significant Iran Chalcolithic and Kura Araxes (ancient Caucasian) ancestry.
      North Africans and Middle Easterners are Caucasian and therefore close to Europeans. They can also be called white but there’s actually no such thing as white

    • @goyam2981
      @goyam2981 Рік тому +7

      North Africans and South Asians have strong intense looks especially the eyes compared to Europeans. So I don't think you are the same. Thai people call North Africans and Middle Easterners "white kaek" and dark-skinned south Asians as just "kaek". Europeans are called "farang". I think these categories make more sense than grouping North Africans and Middle Easterners with Europeans.

    • @goyam2981
      @goyam2981 Рік тому +3

      If you ask American teens to act " Asian" they will do the slant eye thing. But Southeast Asians which are included in the Asian group mostly have double eyelids. You can see how superficial American categorization can be.

    • @bhka6423
      @bhka6423 Рік тому

      @@goyam2981 Indians, Middle Easterners and North Africans are Caucasian and therefore similar to Europeans. Just like Japanese, Vietnamese or Thais (who are often a little bit darker) are mongoloid.

  • @phathako55
    @phathako55 Рік тому +7

    I see talent man. Keep it up

  • @garymendez-tj4bw
    @garymendez-tj4bw 3 місяці тому +3

    Some middle eastern people do look white/european. These people would be in the Caucasian family as they share the same bone structure as Europeans.

  • @chillskit3086
    @chillskit3086 Рік тому +9

    Being White Isn't about you're hue more as you're genetics and origin, probably his dad do have Afro ancestry. I have family who are Spain Arabs and other family members who are North African Arab. Majority of Arabs are White due to the ancestry genetics.

    • @nycbearff
      @nycbearff 5 місяців тому

      There is no genetic evidence supporting the idea of "races". Genetics has completely debunked the theory of race - race is a made-up thing, it has always just been gaslighting.

    • @FireGodSlayer
      @FireGodSlayer 2 місяці тому

      LOL north african 'arabs' aren't arabs buddy. They're BERBERS not arabs. Majority of north africans have nothing to do with arabs.

  • @synsyre4549
    @synsyre4549 5 місяців тому

    2:11 might be a nerd I just gasped when you mentioned the us national census cause I’m assuming you’re about to mention the very first one

  • @andre.bandarra
    @andre.bandarra Рік тому +6

    Man, Brazil treats race in soooo diferent way it's even hard to understand the whole discussion, i mean, if you look white you are white, if you look black you are black, if you look asian you are asian, and if there's no clear answer you're just mixed race. But people doesn't seem to care about it even a fraction of how americans does

    • @CHPYXO
      @CHPYXO Рік тому

      Interesting because the black people in brazil tell a different story.

    • @andre.bandarra
      @andre.bandarra Рік тому

      @@CHPYXO off course there's racism, unfortunately this happen all over the world, but here people view "black" more as a skin color than a race, like was said in the video. It's impossible to see a dark skin north African been called white in Brazil

    • @Sara-dv2nj
      @Sara-dv2nj Рік тому

      I think most of the white Brazilians are Italian descent? Or at least that's what i learned from the few Brazilian friends i made on the way .
      But they were also impressed by how i looked as a north African , apparently i was beautiful (they made a lot of comments about my freckles) , but beautiful in an alien weird way 😂.
      I think they were like : This gal looks close to us , but not close enough .
      Loved them tho , great sense of critical thinking and awareness in the Brazilian youth .

    • @SkepticShaman13
      @SkepticShaman13 Рік тому

      its interesting because im dominican and puertorican and live in brazil and some people here in the northeast region say im white others say im pardo, others say im "moreno" whatever that means but when I lived in the USA nobody considered me as a white person. Nowadays I just say im a pardo on the lighter side here in Brazil , but im starting to care less about these arbitrary classifications because I know who I am and my history so I guess genotype and culture is more important than phenotypes.

    • @andre.bandarra
      @andre.bandarra Рік тому

      @@SkepticShaman13 pardo, moreno or mestiço are words for person with a mixed race

  • @rki7068
    @rki7068 Рік тому +4

    You are probably right about Egypt being a motive. Unfortunately this neglects the importance of all other megalithic structures from around the world from and since that time to even before the time of the oldest kingdoms of Egypt.

  • @AnteroNeves
    @AnteroNeves Рік тому +2

    I wonder why so much of our youth is interested in classifying people by color and where that will take humanity in a few years.

  • @napoleonfeanor
    @napoleonfeanor Рік тому +17

    American census categories are weird. White isn't a purely racial category but also linked to ethnocultural aspects. The biological race is called caucasoid or europoid and you can guess where the latter term is more common. We actually had two lessons about race at school in year 6 and later also a bit in year ten at my German school. It was very factual and about which races exist, where they migrated and where different races mixed and what the term for those mixed race populations are. We were shown pictures and there was a map in the general school atlas book we all had for geography. Political correctness idiocy changed that later. Anyways, the caucasoid race reaches from Europe to India. The vast majority of Indians are caucasoid, just of a darker skin as skin tone is actually something that can change relatively quick from an evolutionary perspective. Siberia/Central Asia has been an area where this race mixed with the mongoloid one (Native Americans also seem to have a small but significant percentage of caucasoid ancestry but mainly mongoloid) while the Horn of Africa is a mix with congoid/negroid race. There is also the australoid one mainly in Melanesia but with population elsewhere and traces of ancestry in Southeast Asia. Last but not least there is the tiny capoid one comprising the Khoisan in Southern Africa.
    It's just that. It has nothing to do with any normative claims. No need for racial conflict. We are races of the same species.

    • @shueibdahir
      @shueibdahir Рік тому +4

      So this is basically a "just because school taught me something it must be true" argument?

    • @kingpauljoel6827
      @kingpauljoel6827 Рік тому +2

      Indians are not just dark Caucasoid,they are an admixture of native south asians( a population genetically similar to dark skinned kinky haired" andamanese people"),and Indo European population (europoid) and some do have some level of east Asian admixture.

    • @napoleonfeanor
      @napoleonfeanor Рік тому +2

      @@kingpauljoel6827 those Iranian farmers and Indo-Europeans are not caucasoid? I know about the australoid admixture in parts of India as well as mixed and fully mongoloid ethnic groups. But look at the size of the australoid admixture and also where Indian population centers are.

    • @napoleonfeanor
      @napoleonfeanor Рік тому

      @@shueibdahir not the point. The point is it was normalcy and didn't change because of science but because of politics.

    • @kingpauljoel6827
      @kingpauljoel6827 Рік тому +1

      @@napoleonfeanor I didn't say Indo Europeans were not Caucasoid , when they migrated to India or Iran ,they didn't find empty lands,those lands had population prior to their arrivals.
      Indians today are not purely Caucasoid.they are not just Caucasoid who got darker,the region with more dark skinned indians(southern India)have a high level of andamanese or australoid like ancestries (non Caucasoid)

  • @HiGHkeyHxuffuug-hc7ql
    @HiGHkeyHxuffuug-hc7ql Рік тому +12

    Nice work
    It's not just because fo ancient Egypt. the Civilization has existed for the first 2000 years between the Tigris and Nile only. Counting and writing systems from cuneiform to Alphabet and all Abrahamic religions was made in the middle east
    by brown middle eastern
    They put us on the same page with them In order to increase the centrality of the white man

    • @Mettabeshay
      @Mettabeshay  Рік тому +2

      your totally right. thats why the whole "hamitic peoples" Bullshit also comes from.

    • @StevenHughes-hr5hp
      @StevenHughes-hr5hp 5 місяців тому

      Iraqis are Asian. Egyptians are African. Not at all the same people.

  • @cronoscoin417
    @cronoscoin417 Рік тому +2

    "Why Arabs, Asians, American-Indians, Africans and Europeans are technically human"

  • @NyceBoi89
    @NyceBoi89 Рік тому +10

    In Asia, we identified ourselves with nationality not with skin color. Like Chinese Japanese and Vietnamese. We're different!

    • @unknownable6396
      @unknownable6396 Рік тому

      Bc Americans are not one skin colored and not all of them share the same history and culture unlike other countries that have one skin color and one history and one culture

    • @ryannathaniel9296
      @ryannathaniel9296 Рік тому

      ​@@unknownable6396that statement applied to basically any country in the world, especially those birthed after colonization. Stop downplaying other people's history!

    • @Shoonam
      @Shoonam Рік тому +1

      Asians also have prejudice against skin tones within their own populations. Some are darker skinned, which is deemed less desirable in some Asian cultures.

    • @ibrahimmohammedibrahim9273
      @ibrahimmohammedibrahim9273 8 місяців тому

      Regional identification is much better like central asia, South Asia, South East Asia

  • @Kgji567
    @Kgji567 Рік тому +3

    Technically, Arabs and Europeans are closer to each other than they are to East Asian or blacks. They form a genetic cluster that is called the West Eurasian cluster. East Africans are partially west Eurasian and partially indigenous East African which is the closest ancient African population to all none Africans since all Eurasian people crossed from east Africa to Eurasia. With that being said I don’t think Arabs should be considered white because this makes Arabs a minority without protections. Also it makes Arabs as a minority not benefit from certain laws and programs meant to uplift minorities.

    • @nycbearff
      @nycbearff 5 місяців тому

      It sounds like you're attempting to squeeze genetics into the theory of race. Sorry, it can't be done if you understand both genetics and the theory of race. Races are supposedly unique, with distinct skill sets and mental attributes as well as physical looks. And none of those bundles of racial characteristics have been found by geneticists, because humans are not divided up that way. White or black or whatever is purely based on beliefs, not on actual real things. So whoever is in power in a particular country or region which uses race (not all countries do) decides who is and who isn't a particular race. It varies a lot from country to country, because it's all made up.

    • @Kgji567
      @Kgji567 5 місяців тому

      @@nycbearff the world is not a monolith, I’ve never heard of a single unified theory of race that everyone agrees on. Your comment is pointless.

    • @nycbearff
      @nycbearff 5 місяців тому

      @@Kgji567 The modern concept of race was developed in the 1700s - it claims that humanity is divided into races which each have unique bundles of characteristics that separate them. That is the theory of race. Since it's pure gaslighting, there isn't any biological basis to it, so the definitions of what races exist and who belongs to which race vary a lot, from time to time and country to country. But the concept of unique bundles of characteristics defining a race is common to all of them. Geneticists have not been able to find any evidence of races in human biology (by whatever country's standards).

    • @Kgji567
      @Kgji567 4 місяці тому

      @@nycbearff it’s crazy because I have not mentioned the word race at all in my original comment yet you are here renting about race. I don’t see what both of your comments have to with my comment.

    • @joody7943
      @joody7943 2 місяці тому

      I never seen myself closer to European skin, European are too white, and Africans is too black, Asians are yellowish white, as an Arab, saudi, I am in the middle. Maybe we just close to Italians, Iberian..

  • @jackieortegadesigns326
    @jackieortegadesigns326 4 місяці тому +2

    Race is just a social construct and has nothing to do with looks. What is real are genetic variations but it has nothing to do with race. I'm a Filipino and technically Asian but when people think of Filipinos or Asians, my face obviously doesn't cross their mind. I may have different genetics from the stereotypical Asians but still Asians like me do exist.

  • @analienable1398
    @analienable1398 Рік тому +12

    My dad is Arab he is pretty dark especially being from Jordan where I see a lot of lighter Arabs. But anyway, I had to convince him that he wasn't white. The argument is simple do you get picked out at the airport? Lmao. His counter argument is well, "Sicilians" we look like them. My response, Actually they look like Arabs not vice versa and that's because of the Phoenicians.

    • @Sara-dv2nj
      @Sara-dv2nj Рік тому +3

      We're just a bunch of colors , not one , my mom's skin is white ( her features are arab)while my dad would be considered a bit dark skinned, my grandpa on the other hand is very very dark , though his facial features are not that of a different race .
      What i mean to say is , regardless of our skin color , our facial features are neither black nor are they white , we are our own thing .
      Skin color is insignificant when it comes to MENA . neither are facial features tbh cuz there are a lot of black Arabs .

    • @LastBrigadier
      @LastBrigadier Рік тому

      @@Sara-dv2nj "Skin colour is insignificant when it comes to MENA" said the person who had never seen the MENA.

    • @Sara-dv2nj
      @Sara-dv2nj Рік тому +2

      @@LastBrigadier I am from North Africa wth does your comment even mean 😂

    • @LastBrigadier
      @LastBrigadier Рік тому

      @@Sara-dv2nj
      It means that skin colour is important there, especially if you are black or so.

    • @janehastie3464
      @janehastie3464 Рік тому

      I have always had a strong interest in history and have spent tome reading books on that topic. The European officials in Canada, Bermuda, Spanish America, and the Caribbean islands abolished slavery immediately. The officials in Canada and the Bahamas gave sanctuary to African Americans fleeing from slavery in the late 1700s and early 1800s. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson wished to maintain the greediness and brutality of slavery, so they could live an easy, leisurely way of life.

  • @Kristoffer_hv
    @Kristoffer_hv Рік тому +4

    How tf does this have so little views. I saw this video and excepted it to have millions of views but it doesn’t even have a thousand
    Edit: nvm it’s just newly uploaded

    • @Mettabeshay
      @Mettabeshay  Рік тому +1

      Ugh this means so much thank you ❤

  • @jayscalesmusic
    @jayscalesmusic Рік тому

    Im mad how the video ended. This was fire !!!

  • @Pgr-pt5ep
    @Pgr-pt5ep Рік тому +14

    Caucasian, aka Caucasoid include Europeans, western Asians(Russia and below), Arabs, North Africans and Indian(98+% of population including north and south).
    "Whites" are specifically European descent as an old racial term as your video suggests.

  • @tm2bow653
    @tm2bow653 Рік тому +5

    This is true for all mediterranean people including southern Italians, southern Spanish, etc. Those who are dark skinned are sometimes discriminated but officially they are as white as Norwegians. So they are discriminated twice because nothing is made to help them face this discrimination which is supposed not to exist

    • @digiorno1142
      @digiorno1142 Рік тому +2

      Southern Europeans are not dark skinned.

    • @tm2bow653
      @tm2bow653 Рік тому

      @@digiorno1142 many are.

    • @avnereriksen
      @avnereriksen Рік тому +2

      ​​@@digiorno1142Then it seems you never left home. There's a bunch of Southern Europeans with dark skin. And outside Southern Europe, I even have seen and met a few English, Irish, Welsh and French with dark skin. And no, they were not Indian, African or whoever descents. They were just Europeans.

    • @digiorno1142
      @digiorno1142 Рік тому +3

      @@avnereriksen “Dark” relative to an english or Irish guy. Nobody in Europe is truly dark skinned.

    • @digiorno1142
      @digiorno1142 Рік тому +1

      @@tm2bow653 Not really. Maybe some Greeks and Sicilians that is it.

  • @chadify007
    @chadify007 Рік тому +1

    It's genuinely absurd that we continue to employ broad terms like white, black, and Asian, considering the intricate genetic histories within each group. Phenotypes offer a more sensible approach, acknowledging the immense genetic diversity found in Africa, Europe, and Asia. Which has inspired me to make a new series on it!

  • @ogluigi
    @ogluigi Рік тому +9

    Why does race exist? *vsauce music starts playing*

    • @TeeSpells
      @TeeSpells Рік тому

      Before 7500 years ago give or take the whole planet was African in complexion and phenotype. So I would say soon as white and light skin was introduced to society and having seeing the world mostly black or brown the minority race of white people created a system to survive against the dominant traits.

  • @atilla4352
    @atilla4352 Рік тому +4

    I guess white is a phenotype. But it's not unheard of that during conquests people make children on the road whether it's from marriage or not, and also Middle East and North Africa were colonised by the Greeks and Romans. For example, the old Palestine was from Crete. I'm an eastern European Hungarian and we identify as "white" Europeans but in reality, moved to Europe 1000 years ago from East Asia. Most tribes are Turkic relatives.

    • @famitsus987
      @famitsus987 Рік тому

      Rubbish Huns were from Central Asia native central Asians are Caucsiod from the bmac people

  • @mohdgaith2939
    @mohdgaith2939 Рік тому +1

    Thanks Metta. Enjoyed a lot

  • @tukek88
    @tukek88 Рік тому +4

    They aren't technically. They were called arabs because in hebrew this word means "to be mixed" . They "technically" are mixed.

    • @famitsus987
      @famitsus987 Рік тому +1

      True but real Arabs are white

    • @Arab-1995s
      @Arab-1995s 3 місяці тому

      Haha, we are Arabs, not mixed

    • @Arab-1995s
      @Arab-1995s 3 місяці тому

      The Jews may be the closest people to the Arabs

  • @RichardCranium.
    @RichardCranium. 2 місяці тому +2

    Many Arabs look "white" because they are mixed with European. Lebanese and Syrians have a lot of European ancestry. Sudanese are mostly African with some Arab ancestry. Though the ancient Egyptians had less European ancestry but also less (black) African ancestry than the do now. If one also reads about genetics an light skinned Arab can look quite similar to a Greek or Portuguese man but a Greek or Portuguese man is genetically closer to a Nordic Scandinavian than to any Arab.

    • @Syllaeus
      @Syllaeus Місяць тому +2

      Greeks are genetically close to Scandinavians? How did that happen?

    • @RichardCranium.
      @RichardCranium. Місяць тому

      @@Syllaeus Well they are not genetically very close to Scandinavians, but a lot closer to Scandinavians than they are to Arabs.

    • @Syllaeus
      @Syllaeus Місяць тому

      @@RichardCranium.
      How?
      In other words, how are you making that statement? Is it an opinion or are you referencing a research study?

    • @Syllaeus
      @Syllaeus Місяць тому

      @@RichardCranium.
      Also, “Arabs” are not one homogeneous ethnic group. So, what kind of Arabs?

    • @Fapolouslukas
      @Fapolouslukas Місяць тому +2

      Nope Greeks does'nt bore Resemblance with northern european You will shocked to see how many Me na dna A greeks has

  • @raybinzay1913
    @raybinzay1913 Рік тому +2

    In north EGYPT a lot of people there are white but the color becomes more and more darker when you go down to swath to Sudan direction

    • @Oyjsf
      @Oyjsf Рік тому

      I find this very interesting and kinda funny cuz this is the same for many countries (iran, india, Afghanistan etc) even my country pakistan. Up north they are very fair skinned (mainly cuz they iranic for e.g pasthuns) and the more south you go the darker they become

    • @YusufAhmed22
      @YusufAhmed22 6 місяців тому

      You're right, I'm light skinned with coarse hair from Gharbia Governorate

  • @carlanderson2468
    @carlanderson2468 Рік тому +17

    Most people in America are mixed with some of everything depending on the individual, I'm mixed up with African American, Jewish and white.

    • @maryn4150
      @maryn4150 10 місяців тому

      Do you look like Drake?

    • @carlanderson2468
      @carlanderson2468 10 місяців тому

      @maryn4150 I look like me sista love.

    • @Quibblet
      @Quibblet 9 місяців тому +1

      I'm mixed with indigenous Mexican (Huichol, Olmec tribes), Jewish, French and Spaniard ancestry.

    • @eliasziad7864
      @eliasziad7864 8 місяців тому +2

      I'm Arab American Muslim yet my genetic makeup is 70% Yemenite Jewish.

    • @Fubie
      @Fubie 5 місяців тому

      No...that's wrong. If you are white you're likely to be 95 percent or higher european. Really only people of color are mixed *coughhow'dTHAThappencough*

  • @Neat_profile
    @Neat_profile Рік тому +9

    They are Caucasoids but not exactly white. White is a social construct and there is also a cultural component to it. Primarily practicing a denomination of Christendom. On that respect our problem with the Arabs is more of a cultural one than a racial one.

    • @nzwaywish
      @nzwaywish Рік тому +2

      Caucasoids is not a real term, your usong 1800s old racist terminology that is not rooted in science.

    • @famitsus987
      @famitsus987 Рік тому +3

      @@nzwaywishcope

  • @Levant_Edits
    @Levant_Edits 8 місяців тому +3

    You shouldn’t say they are “literally not white” as many Arabs are

  • @GeoNoob
    @GeoNoob Рік тому +3

    The save europe kids are NOT gonna be happy about this

    • @InteN66
      @InteN66 Рік тому

      In europe I learned in elementary school that there are 3 races and different ethnicities belong to different races and one of them was Arabic which fell under white category. So yeah if they actually listened their class they would know , don't you worry.

    • @Kenny-ep2nf
      @Kenny-ep2nf 9 місяців тому

      @@InteN66 hahahaha exactly, if only more people were well aware of their very own proposed topics

  • @sven3413
    @sven3413 Рік тому +1

    Am I even supposed to take the video seriously after reading that title? Does the US government even have the mental capacity to define what original european is?

  • @aestheticterritory
    @aestheticterritory Рік тому +7

    There are indigenous Middle Easterns with various features:
    Mediterranean looking: Saleh Bakri, Nadine Labaki.
    Mixed Sub-Saharan looking: Yasser Al-Qahtani, Salama Mohamed.
    Eurasian looking: Sayid Yusuf Halim, Aseel Omran.
    Nordic looking: Muhammad al-Yaqoubi, Serene Hadaya.

    • @johnathanmay9143
      @johnathanmay9143 Рік тому

      None of those people you mentioned look like Europeans

    • @elunicorn695
      @elunicorn695 Рік тому +1

      @@johnathanmay9143 Because they’re not European. They come in all shades but they are all Arabs.
      While we label things to be able to differentiate between the geographical location and its attributes, the fauna and flora, as well as the inhabitants, it’s really not that deep, people just love to think they’re different. We’re all of the human race and probably originated from the same first humans if blond blue-eyes are a genetic mutation. Humans were nomads since the beginning of time, some will settle and start civilizations. It’s a fact that moving from hemisphere to another, people will have less and less melanin because they have adapted to their natural environments, and after centuries of reproducing the same genetical makeup in an area, you would have groups of people who look the same.

    • @alberto-f5o9s
      @alberto-f5o9s Рік тому

      i searched those names and don't resemble europeans, even south europeans at all.

    • @habibasharawy1643
      @habibasharawy1643 Рік тому +2

      ​@@alberto-f5o9she didn't say they were Europeans, he said various indigenous Arabs look different, not Europeans look different

    • @AyanAli-py7ci
      @AyanAli-py7ci 6 місяців тому

      ​@@elunicorn695Arabs are white

  • @b.h.6250
    @b.h.6250 Рік тому +13

    My two cents: It's because they look whiter than brown or black people and have features which are more similar to Europeans than to Asians or Native Americans.
    Oh, and Europeans can actually tan just as much as this guy's uncle or father.

    • @Mettabeshay
      @Mettabeshay  Рік тому +10

      The more you read the work of the enlightenment time on race the more you realize It really didnt matter what people looked like. For example Meiners and others were adamant that Russian and other Slavs were basically a different species even tho they looked the same. It was a cultural statement about their way of life.

    • @boslyporshy6553
      @boslyporshy6553 Рік тому

      So the race is in the melanin?

    • @matthewmann8969
      @matthewmann8969 Рік тому +6

      Southern Europeans that are predominantly, mostly, or entirely mediterannean can tan easily not other Euros usually.

    • @TeeSpells
      @TeeSpells Рік тому

      ​​​​@@matthewmann8969thern is directly above Africa not only that southern Europeans have African sickle cell traits not only that southern Europeans didn't consider themselves to be part of the Northern Europeans bloodline unlike the modern Europeans of today and they mentioned Africa so much but again different in modern times due to the new racial standards and racist people stealing historical legacy of other people.

    • @TeeSpells
      @TeeSpells Рік тому +1

      ​​@@matthewmann8969he crazy thing about Egypt is that they didn't like outsiders at all. The actual natives Egyptians welcomed Nubians to take over from other foreigners and was willing to split that land amongs the nubians and natives Egyptians during the rise of the 25th dynasty. Egypt is also a Matriarch unlike every single people from western Asia but Africans are Matriarchs within the system of kingship. They have Afro picks 6000 years old😮 but you can't find anything like that in Western Asia.

  • @aliatar9325
    @aliatar9325 Рік тому +1

    As someone coming from a country of people who are of mixed race. The talk about race was one of the most confusing things i heard.

  • @peacefulmountain2
    @peacefulmountain2 Рік тому +8

    to me arabs are white bc race isn't even a real thing so if we must classify them white is the most fitting, historically they have the closest connections to and with europeans, many of them look european, and if they have black admixture then they can identify as afro-arab, the european and arab world have been taking ideas and trading with each other for thousands of years and that includes mixing phenotypes, there's definitely a large amount of arabs that are physically more "brown" but if bulgarians, turks, greeks, albanians, southern iberians, and southern italians all have to be considered white it makes sense that arabs should be too, also, why do alleged poc always whine about "it's funny how europeans say they were the civilized ones" we were all simultaneously uncivilized and advanced in our own ways compared to where we are now, and you've seen all the progress white people have made in recent history, it's such a petty cope and it's disappointing to hear, and asking horners if they have more in common with north africa is stupid, the only reason they would is bc of the influence of the arabian peninsula that's right next door to them and literally intermixed with them for centuries as well grouped with the influence of arabs in egypt, so the common denominator is the arab conquerers/merchants that influenced those regions, as someone who went to school for history and has studied anthropology extensively, there's a reason older arab babas especially middle eastern ones claim to be white bc they know their connection, i know it's cool to be this woke beige afro-centrist but it's better to be yourself than to try and carve out this poc love fest that doesn't exist, and the only damn reason why you don't see yourself as white is due to demographic change in the US and bc you spent most if not all of your life in a post 9/11-desert storm world where your white status has been demoted within the societal psyche, plus your way of talking about arabs is only applied to the american perception of arabs discounting the entire world like a true american lmao

    • @Taimur.Shairyar
      @Taimur.Shairyar Рік тому

      The whole "classify" thing is bullshit man. According to this logic, a lot of South Asians should also be classified as "white" because they're not black, nor mongoloid, and certainly not islanders. But on the consensus, they're lumped in with East asians.

    • @SebastianLake-mu7br
      @SebastianLake-mu7br Рік тому

      Dumbest shit I’ve heard

    • @SebastianLake-mu7br
      @SebastianLake-mu7br Рік тому +2

      Are Indians white cause they got history like the Europeans and Arabs?

  • @WikkeSchrandt
    @WikkeSchrandt Рік тому +3

    This is just absolutely ridiculous, and it's very typically American.
    You can place people into ethnic categories, if you want, but "white" and "black" aren't ethnicities. Someone from Belgium has very little in common with someone from Albania, even though the US would consider both of them to just be white. Someone from Ethiopia is nothing like someone from Chad, even though they'd both be classified as black, according to the American census. Zulu, Amhara, Afrikaners, Berbers, Iberians, Finns - they could be classified as ethnic groups.
    Most of the world that isn't the US just does racism on a country-by-country basis these days, mostly. Poland dislikes Germany, who is disliked by the French, and so on. Hence, you might get a Frenchman of Algerian origin fighting with a German of Turkish descent.
    But in the US, you're required to fill in the colour of your skin on school forms? Even if your skin colour could be attributed to an incredibly wide variety of geographical regions which have nothing in common between them, you're now part of one, homogenous group. It's just weird.

  • @nowheresa
    @nowheresa Рік тому

    Why the only video on UA-cam where the thumbnail answers the question

  • @delgande
    @delgande Рік тому +3

    Before Islam, North Africa was basically part of Europe. Rome covered the Mediterranean and many North Africans were celebrated in antiquity like St Augustine.
    The whole Mediterranean was connected and the ancient Carthaginians came from the Levant.
    Germanic tribes even went to North Africa to take over former Roman territories
    It is Islam that separated North Africa from Europe but they were originally connected and you can't tell some Berbers from europeans

    • @karimzenati6908
      @karimzenati6908 Рік тому +1

      Bro litteraly the north africa was called « ifri » or « africa » by the romans, they dont fix this with Europe (like est Mauritania, west mauretania, numidia and Carthage formed the « africa region »)

    • @moaen1
      @moaen1 Рік тому

      Lmao no

    • @94cl
      @94cl Рік тому

      The truth is that you are a barbarian and you want to attach yourself to the Europeans, and this will not happen because you are an African. As for Carthage and the Canaanites, they are Arabs and they controlled North Africa and have nothing to do with the Europeans.

    • @sokopic
      @sokopic Рік тому

      @@94cl canaan was called khuru land(land of europeans in essence) and you did have indo europeans all the way down to jordania
      anatolia was for indo europeans from the same importance(of not more ) than east europe
      that did change and that people are gone
      but yes..for the last 15 000 years you could not see the difference between west asia and europe
      that did only change in the last 3 000 years

    • @Bell_plejdo568p
      @Bell_plejdo568p Рік тому

      @@moaen1exactly y do ppl make thing up and there’s dark skin North Africans

  • @juststop94
    @juststop94 Рік тому +9

    I guess they didn't know about the 1drop rule in America either😂😂😂

    • @coreylevine8095
      @coreylevine8095 Рік тому +4

      I don't think Europe have the one drop rule

    • @rexmundi7811
      @rexmundi7811 Рік тому +3

      Most of America did follow the one drop rule. Only 10 states in the early 1900s legislated the one drop rule.

    • @Bell_plejdo568p
      @Bell_plejdo568p Рік тому

      @@coreylevine8095europe doenst have race

  • @MelodicRaptor60
    @MelodicRaptor60 5 місяців тому +2

    That thing with you have to say your “race” in the us is so foreign for me from Sweden because that don’t even exist here like does it change anything?

  • @evaldocarvalho2404
    @evaldocarvalho2404 Рік тому +4

    Why to ask color of people, Will they give them any money?

    • @paidsurveys6561
      @paidsurveys6561 Рік тому

      Cause the west is racist and was built on the backs of non white people's and used white supremacy to justify colonialism.

  • @Retro-vb9ll
    @Retro-vb9ll Рік тому +15

    Egyptians and Sumerians: Yo who the hell calling my descendants white 💀

    • @basedtvrk9125
      @basedtvrk9125 Рік тому +11

      I mean, they weren't black and they definitely were Caucasoid.

    • @famitsus987
      @famitsus987 Рік тому +1

      They were your not from them mutt

    • @JoshJack-iu6yd
      @JoshJack-iu6yd 10 місяців тому

      @@basedtvrk9125 The term "Caucasoid" doesn't necessarily mean white and white people are considered people who are European

    • @basedtvrk9125
      @basedtvrk9125 10 місяців тому

      @@JoshJack-iu6yd Sorry, but that's not the definition western governments use to categorize race.

    • @pendita66
      @pendita66 3 місяці тому

      @Retro-vb9ll Yes modern egyptians are arabs.

  • @DavidSmyth8439
    @DavidSmyth8439 Рік тому +1

    It's not silly. Europeans are very closely related to middle Easterners and north africans genetically, relative to sub saharan Africans, east asians and other areas of the world. This is well established

    • @Kenny-ep2nf
      @Kenny-ep2nf 9 місяців тому

      Exactly man. Where you from?

  • @busterdouglas593
    @busterdouglas593 Рік тому +4

    Europeans and MENAs are both, in terms of modern population genomics, West-Eurasian. Both groups have significant deep ancestry from Neolithic Farmers, Basal (West) Eurasians and Caucasian Hunter Gatherers. MENAs often have Natufian farmer admixture (peaks in Peninsular Arabians) which is absent in Europeans, while native Europeans all have significant European Hunter Gatherer admixture (peaks in Scandinavian and Baltic peoples). This is why many MENAs pass as White. Most Egyptians have significant Natufian ancestry, most studies of ancient Egyptian Autosomal DNA show they were actually mostly Natufian with some additional CHG and Neolithic Farmer admixture. There are Sub-Saharan African people who have migrated to Southern Egypt, however native Egyptians do not stand out from other MENA people in terms of Autosomal DNA.

    • @Ariapeithes_
      @Ariapeithes_ 9 місяців тому

      Northwest Europeans are mostly Yamnaya, Bell Beaker, Corded Ware and Sredny Stog with some WHG, WSH, EEF, and AAF ancestry, they are not any way related to the Natufian population.
      The ancient Egyptians were Hamites, directly related to populations in the Horn of Africa and southeastern Africa today, the Maasai, Turkana, Afar, Beja, Somalis, Oromo, etc., are their closest relatives, definitely not modern Egyptians.

    • @canelo1728
      @canelo1728 8 місяців тому +1

      @@Ariapeithes_ Ancient egyptians have absolutely nothing to do with you sub saharans. Ancient egypt is on the medditeranean next to other middle eastern countries bordering Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Gaza. Grab a population density map of africa, you sub saharan are behind a desert far away.

  • @dngdnf4862
    @dngdnf4862 Рік тому +5

    now im watching this vid, for me, u can 100% pass as white.

    • @mightye2142
      @mightye2142 Рік тому

      Or Latino

    • @dngdnf4862
      @dngdnf4862 Рік тому +2

      @@mightye2142 200 000 000 are white latinos, . look at Lionel Messi. a classic argentinian (latino). i guess u are talking about a mestizo

    • @mightye2142
      @mightye2142 Рік тому +1

      @@dngdnf4862 We all know that Latino means mestizo. They're the MULATTO.

    • @dngdnf4862
      @dngdnf4862 Рік тому +2

      @@mightye2142 latino dosent mean mestizo, lol. latino means a person that live in the americas that speak an latin langauge! spanish, portusese and french . while the english speakers in the americas (US and canada) are anglo-americans

    • @mightye2142
      @mightye2142 Рік тому

      @@dngdnf4862 Whatever you say buddy! In application, Latino or Hispanics denote mulattos from South America. Like Puerto Rican, Dominican, Venezuelan, Brazilian, etc. All those ambiguous looking people with no racial identification. A white man is just a damn white man because their race or ethnicity is obvious.

  • @canelo1728
    @canelo1728 Рік тому +2

    White= Caucasian race, it's pretty simple. But white has also a different meaning. White also refers to people of European origins

  • @choco.es.unlimited
    @choco.es.unlimited Рік тому +4

    I think you're right. They included Egypt as white because of the pyramids. Nubians lifted up Egypt to another level. Look at their structures.

    • @famitsus987
      @famitsus987 Рік тому +1

      Nubia was conquered by Egyptians that’s why lol also Nubians destroyed Egypt that’s when it fell apart 🤣🤣🤣

    • @AhmedAbdulaziz-j1c
      @AhmedAbdulaziz-j1c Місяць тому

      Nubia? That shit is full of savages and uncivilised shit

  • @bydsarrett0
    @bydsarrett0 Рік тому +16

    I'm your 389th subscriber, this channel will certainly blow up over the next year and since I'm one of the first ppl to subscribe to you, you owe me your soul which you will hand over to me after passing the million mark, thank you.
    Cool video, it's the explanation of the sentence "race is a made up concept".

  • @DaverowUK
    @DaverowUK 9 місяців тому

    Nice vid, you have a flair for being entertaining and humble.