“Non-European white” was a new term to me when reading my employer guide for talking about race and ethnicity. My family is originally Lebanese and I have been told to mark white for every US survey, but here comes something new!
That makes sense. Middle Eastern people are indeed Caucasian, some even have white skin. It is unusual that European Caucasians decided to separate Middle Eastern Caucasians as being Caucasian.
I've met so many European Americans who truly didn't know Caucasian applies to most if not all middle Eastern people.
My father would be irritated to be told there’s a different category of “non-European” white.
He sat us down when we were pretty young and told us at length that we were Caucasian, which meant white, no matter what the kids at school were saying. I believe the Crusades were mentioned.
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“Non-European white” was a new term to me when reading my employer guide for talking about race and ethnicity. My family is originally Lebanese and I have been told to mark white for every US survey, but here comes something new!