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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do we define "white" these days?  Serious question.[/quote]

It’s in the Census. It includes Lebanese, Egyptian as examples. 
https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-census-middle-east-north-africa-race/

[i]Arab and Iranian communities for years have lobbied the bureau to create a separate category for people of Middle Eastern or North African descent.

Over the last decade, it seemed the tide would turn — the Obama administration was considering proposals to ask questions about race and ethnicity in a different way, shifting not only how the government would count the Middle Eastern community, but the Latino population as well.

In 2018, however, the bureau announced that it would not include a “MENA” category. Instead, the next survey will ask participants who check “white” or “black” to write in their “origins” for the first time. Lebanese and Egyptian are among the suggestions under white.[/i][/quote]

Yes, according to the US census, this would be a white guy:

[img]https://cdn.britannica.com/77/93077-050-8358BA53/Anwar-Sadat.jpg[/img][/quote]

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