its not even about race. not all caucasians are white
Right. It’s more of an emphasis on skin tone, which makes it all complete nonsense. I am northwest European. I have known Japanese and central Asians whose skin is as light as mine. By that reckoning, they are “white”, but a European with a darker complexion is not. I have heard darker-skinned say they are not white. It would be a better thing if we could just consider each other as human beings and find some kind of unity in that, but those obsessed with race and skin-tone have given us a dermatological Tower of Babel.