Semitic people such as Arabs and Jews are no different than Greeks, Italians, Spanards, Portuguese, and Moors.
This just shows how arbitrary “race” is.
Moors.
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People keep misspelling that word, it’s “Moops”
Actually Spaniards and Portuguese are placed in he Latino/Hispanic category even though they are European and very much the same as Italians, French etc.i e European caucasians.And North Africans are not categorized as African Americans. Some years ago one of my 8th graders in Queens was pure blood Egyptian, daughterof Egyptian immigrants. She wanted a specific high school program where preferences were give to hispanics and african americans. i told her mom to indicate african american on the application. She was turned down because the powersvgat be said the term could only apply to blacks.
Over the years I have had several people from Japan and Taiwan say that Arabs and Persians most certainly are “white.”