Why are people in the middle east considered white?

Because race isn't defined on whether the people in one blurry photo "look White" to you.

 

If physical appearance doesnt define race or whiteness, then what does define it?

I would define white (among non Europeans) as people who could pass for European.

 

whiteness can't be defined as simply being from Europe.

there are Europeans in southern Spain, Italy, Greece, Bosnia, Serbia, who are quite dark.

 

Nothing defines whiteness. Why do you think none of these posters have been able or even attempted to define it? Because its not reality and is not based on any scientific reasoning just mindless hyperbole

 

It’s defined as a range of overall genetic similarity demarcated by the discontinuity through Greeks and Turks.

 

Thats not what you and yours preach on a daily basis here.

 

For example?

 

What historical proof do you have that the arabs intermarried significantly with people from the Indus valley region?

 

If Caucasian doesnt mean having ancestry from the Caucasus mountains, then where did the term "Caucasian" originate from?

 

The Arabs traded with the Indus Valley, Egypt, East Africa, Dilmun, Sumer, Yemen, Babylon and in the Levant for a couple thousand years before Islam... Silks, spices, salt, dates, pearls.. Look at the ancient trade routes.

 

there is no legitimate anthropologist or biologist on Earth today who believes that Europeans or white people are descended from the Caucus Mountains.

its an outdated, pseudo-science idea created by a white supremacist racist fool.

its like saying "Lesbians are all from Lesbos".

 

Caucasians are a holotype of Caucasoids, an example of the type which is roughly central.

 

Except Blumenbach never

1) said that, although recent genetics work claim it's a possibility
2) was a White supremacist

 

caucasian means descended from caucus mountains. caucus- asian. it was where the genetic mutation occurred to create so called whites. its like the word eurasian, euro-asian. probably the climate, mountain region, helped develop this pale look and from here the spread into europe.

 

Can you quote Blumenbach saying Caucasoid means "from the Caucasus mountains".

 

his works are not in english, idont speak latin.

 

So in other words you are making stuff up?

 

someone lied to you, as this is not true.

nobody knows where exactly the white skin gene developed.

 

there is no better definition.

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it certainly didnt develop in asia. we know that much.

 

it developed somewhere between the Middle East and India....as this gene is in many people in the Middle East, Persia, and India.

no evidence it came specifically from the Caucus region, as you were just trolling/baiting.

 

trolling?
it takes one to know one iguess.
the white gene, whatever that is came from europe, if it exists in asia it is due to back migration, likely from the crusades and/or greek conquests throughout the region.

 

it doesn't come from Europe.

it comes from somewhere between the Middle East and India.

that's why lots of folks in the Middle East, Persia, and India have it.

 

back migration with the greeks and crusades.

 

say what bra?

 

Apparently he thinks people turned from Blacks to White Europeans in the past thousand years.