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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to the racial categories used by the US government, yes. I think racial categories always vary by culture and country.[/quote]

Historically middle-easterners were considered to be white, and (I believe) worked to have themselves considered white.  Now days the advantages in the US of being classified as non-white are quite significant and some MENA groups are pushing for a separate classification.  For example: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/09/30/white-house-wants-add-new-racial-category-middle-eastern-people/91322064/

From the article: "Adding a box on the census form could have implications beyond racial identity. According to the White House notice, the new data could be used for a wide range of political and policy purposes, including:

• Enforcing the Voting Rights Act and drawing congressional and state legislative district boundaries;

• Establishing federal affirmative action plans and evaluating claims of employment discrimination in employment in the private sector;

• Monitoring discrimination in housing, mortgage lending and credit;

• Enforcing school desegregation policies; and

• Helping minority-owned small businesses get federal grants and loans.

Adding the classification also would help the government and independent scholars understand more about trends in health, employment and education.

"We can't even ask questions like that, because we don't have the data," said Germine Awad, an Egyptian-American and professor of educational psychology at the University of Texas at Austin."
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