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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does this thread continue? Between this and the Sanchez thread the jealously of average looking white women is palpable. [/quote]

Amal Clooney is white.[/quote]
I doubt she identifies as white. [/quote]

I have no idea how she identifies, but Lebanese people seem generally to consider themselves white. [/quote]

Yes . If the name George Clooney was on a reservation for a Beirut restaurant or hotel suite, it would’ve been assumed it’s a Lebanese man. George is a common name among Christians , and Cloony sounds Lebanese .

Her name however is Amal Alamuddin which is definitely not an Anglo name . Despite being raised a Brit, her parents gave her a super old fashioned and very Arabic first name Amal. Not even an Arabic name that’s global like Leila or Aliya or Aida or Sarah or Norah. But Amal..

Amal is a grandmother name. It means nope but it’s usually not a name someone with a whitewashed family would name their kid . I doubt Amal was raised to identify as white for this reason. Given the last name, an Anglo conscious family would’ve named a more global first name [/quote]

People can be "raised to identify" as sofa cushions (and that makes about as much sense as anything else these days) but someone of mixed Lebanese and especially Druze heritage is going to be very obviously white. The Levant is white. "Whiteness" is misidentified with Europe alone. [/quote]

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