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[–] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Lmaoooo

No absolutely not

Like they might be described as white only if the describer couldn't in any way identify the person as Arab. One piece of ethnic clothing or whatever and they will instantly be 0% white.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

yeah, but also, i think arab-americans themselves mostly dont want to identify as white either.

[–] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Oh yeah totally, my comment was from experience lol. Sometime around my mid 20s I started consciously presenting myself in ways that get me assumed as white less often, but now the scenarios in which I am "white" have just become funnier and more absurd

[–] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

It's not like Arabs wear any "ethnic clothing" unless you're a Muslim woman in hijab. Or at least I've never seen any of my Arab relatives with anything like that.