Angola banned mosques/Islamic worship last year

[Neuling]

Originally Posted by Hawaii4evr

@desertdetroiter, yes I agree with your most recent post on this matter.

Neuling, again, this is not true. Most Americans do not see people from West, Central, or South Asia (nor people from North and East Africa)--all of whom are Caucasoid--as "White", regardless of what the census says. In fact, our census is considering adding a MENA option to the race question, just as many other countries already have. As someone who's part Middle Eastern and has grown up knowing a few Middle Easterners, I can tell you that most Saudis and other people from that region don't look like Greeks, Italians, Spanish, etc. Skin tone, sure, sometimes it's the same. But there's more to "looking White" than just your skin. The features of many people from that part of the world are very different from southern Europeans. And most Middle Easterners I know either consider themselves to be Asian (just as Indians, Pakistanis, Tajiks, or Afghans would be considered Asian--Asian doesn't always mean you have to be from the Far East) or their own race. People in North Africa and West Asia are very mixed--they are descended from the natives of those regions, sub-Saharan Africans that they either traded with or had as slaves, Asians they interacted with (be it from trading with places like India or China, or being conquered by Mongols and Turkic tribes), and later, Europeans via colonialism.

Arabs look diverse, but so do Europeans. Portuguese just don't look like central Europeans etc. Still, they are all lumped together as whites. Really, what most people mean by white is European. They should simply say so and not draw race lines where there are none.