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In NYC (where 9/11 happened, of course), darker skinned whites are often assumed to be Italian-American among other ethnicities. Maybe Jewish, too (as plenty of Jews are darker complexioned).
Despite the news stations saying "omg we changed so much after 9/11"
My life doesnt feel that different, except i aged a lot got a couple pay raises but thats pretty much it.... never experienced much prejudice before or after 9/11.
There are a lot of Muslims in New York and New Jersey. The work in our stores, they work with us in our offices, they live on our streets, some of them even ran out of the World Trade Center alongside the rest of us. It seems to me that people outside the NY metro area are more concerned about them than we are.
The Sikh from India were innocent victims of 9/11 because they were turbans and were beards too.
Yes, unfortunately, there were incidents against them because people are idiots. Not that it's OK to attack a Muslim because another Muslim did something wrong.
CravingMountains is right. There is something about arabs that distinguishes them. Their complexion might or might not be dark but their facial features are typically different from europeans. Because I grew up around many of them, I recognize an arab when I see one. Just like some people in europe are able to tell a jewish from a non jewish when both would look the same to you. My friends from Greece were however unable to distinguish an arab from a white person.
CravingMountains is right. There is something about arabs that distinguishes them. Their complexion might or might not be dark but their facial features are typically different from europeans. Because I grew up around many of them, I recognize an arab when I see one. Just like some people in europe are able to tell a jewish from a non jewish when both would look the same to you. My friends from Greece were however unable to distinguish an arab from a white person.
This is very true! If you live around/know a certain ethnicity of people, you learn to distinguish them by their characteristics, which might even be difficult to exactly describe to others.
I worked in NYC once with a woman from Kenya who had spent much of her life in the US. She could pick out other Africans on the street and tell you if they were West Somalians or from a particular tribe in Kenya. She just knew by looking at them.
She had a brother who was married to a woman from a Kenyan tribe that her tribe was not supposed to marry into for whatever reason. Her brother and her wife lived in Jersey City, where most people would probably not even realize they were from Kenya, let alone be able to make tribal distinctions.
CravingMountains is right. There is something about arabs that distinguishes them. Their complexion might or might not be dark but their facial features are typically different from europeans. Because I grew up around many of them, I recognize an arab when I see one. Just like some people in europe are able to tell a jewish from a non jewish when both would look the same to you. My friends from Greece were however unable to distinguish an arab from a white person.
I actually knew a woman who was Arab. She had brownish red hair, but her skin tone and features gave her away. I've noticed Arab women tend to also have very small eyes. I'm always able to tell Arabic women apart, because a lot of the Arabic people I know tend to marry outside of their ethnicity. With the men it's harder to tell. I've never seen a light skinned Arabic person, mostly in media (I've never personally ran into an Arabic person who was fair skinned), and thought "Oh, she/he's Irish or German" or some other white ethnicity. I'm not one to count anyone who's nonblack/asian as "white". Like this reminds me of a thread in the NJ forum, asking if Puerto Ricans were white? No. Why would you ask that? Then again, there's other nationalities, I don't consider white that Arabs would could pass for or vice versa. I really don't understand what a dark skinned white person is.
I don't consider white that Arabs would could pass for or vice versa. I really don't understand what a dark skinned white person is.
What about Jhonny Deep? He's had a role as a Native American in The Brave, and gypsy in Chocolat.
What about Italian-American Cake Boss?
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