Are Arabs 'White'? | AJ+

“White” – without the privilege. Arab-Americans are ready to check their own box on the U.S. census. Dena Takruri explains.

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[arturomansour-hull]

There’s light skinned Arabs, dark skinned Arabs, and Arabs in between. There’s Arabs from Africa and Arabs from Asia.

[godknows]

Arabs aren't white neither black, we don't have such a thing!
Keep this kind of discrimination to the west.

[andreia]

as a light olive skinned-arab i'd never consider myself caucasian/white. we have an entirely different culture and we come in many different colours.

[muh]

Arabism is not about genetic makeup or skin tone, it's an "Identity", a "Nationality" ... Arabs are this group of people who share the language, identity, culture, history and affinity. if you match these categories then you're an arab, if not you're not.
P.S.
religion is not one of these categories, that's why you can be an Arab, but not a Muslim.

[zalamotion]

90% of comments "somalia is not an arab country"

10% normal comments

[aminamohamed]

Somalia may be in the Arab league but Somalis are not Arabs!

[beardedSpartan]

You can have white skin and be arab, race isn't always determined by skin color especially for Asian territories

[susanb]

there should be no "categories" of "race", there is only 1 human race

[AttaBek]

AJ+ made this video because Arabs don't want BLM lecturing them about white privilege 😂

[iamnoone]

Caucasian deasn't automatically mean they're white... Caucasian is a term for people who share a common genetic ancestry, from Europe to Pakistan and India

[drawandcolor]

Arabs are not of a single color.. They have almost all skin colors

[hihihiyeet]

Not everyone is black or white damn. It’s not that difficult to call someone Arab, Hispanic, or Asian. This one girl came up to me and said “I thought you were black, is that your mom?” I said no it’s my aunt from my father I’m half Arab and she said “so white?” I got so pissed off. People can’t just categorize race based off a fraction of the skin tone it’s actually ridiculous that anyone of any race can be categorized into either black or white

[notyourtypicalfarah]

Why was Somalia on the list? We are not Arab ethnically at all. We might have some that are mixed or a small minority of Arabs that live in the country, but majority of us are not Arab, but Somalis.

[patatoh]

Some arabs look exactly like southern italians.

[alixandercyrene]

I grew up in Libya where we never cared about color of skin. I just realized that your color of skin is such a big deal when I traveled to America. I don't know why this triggers so much tension here! Let everyone live his life, you don't have to be judgemental about other races because there are good and bad ppl in every race.

[loaim]

We come in all shades even in the same country like Jordan and Algeria

[gstv]

I'm Arab and I'm proud white black yellow I really don't care we all Arab speak the same language and eat the same food and we have the same god so yeah hey for all arabs from Sudan 😃😃😃😃

[elesendar]

Why is the US so obsessed with race? It was even though interesting to know some of the past immigration calls.

[wclpprk]

Why does the word 'white' have to mean European, when so many others like a lot of Asians have the same, literally white skin color

[Ns.h]

, arabs aren't just classified as white. We come in different shapes, looks, features, and skin tones. Arabic is a language not a country.