Can someone explain this ?🤔

My American friend sent me this.
To be honest I find it kinda weird how in America you have to choose your race when it comes to almost everything Including Job applications. I mean that shouldn’t Matter in my opinion 😅It should be either citizen or non citizen.
But Anyways, what I find weirder is why are Arabs and middle eastern people are classified as “white” ? (genuinely asking)

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CopperCicada · M

Part of my family coming up was Lebanese and Syrian. They were as white as the Italians that many of them were married to. Equally as Christian.

I don't really know the answer.

I'd say that Turks, Armenians, Georgians, Lebanese, Syrians, Israelis are white.

But then the next question somebody would ask would be, well, how about Egyptians? or Moroccans? or this or that?

I really don't care about racial taxonomies.

Moon3624 · 18-21, F

@CopperCicada I don’t care either tbh but I genuinely wanna know why Arabs are classified as white in the American system.
I mean I could get why the Levantine Arabs are considered to be white
And Egyptians Moroccans etc to be African because theyr in Africa
What about uae Kuwait Saudi etc?
Lmao they’r our of place
If anything it makes sense for them to be under the Asian classification