why are arabs and egyptians classified as white/cacausian?

Question

why are arabs and egyptians classified as white/cacausian?
when they fill out a survey or application the instruction for arabs or middle easterners are to choose whice for race. arent egyptians north africans.

Answer 1

Cau-ca-sian (ko-kazhn, -kazhn)adj. 1. Anthropology. Of, relating to, or being a major human racial division traditionally distinguished by physical characteristics such as very light to brown skin pigmentation and straight to wavy or curly hair, and including peoples indigenous to Europe, northern Africa, western Asia, and India.

Answer 2

The reasons that middle easterners are classified together with europeans is because:

1. Many middle easterners speak aryan languages as the europeans do. Geneticly however, aryans make up only a small percentage of either group, albeit a common racial element between both groups.

2. There were many historical interactions between the 2 areas, e.g. Greece, Hittites, Egypt, Rome, Phoenicia

3. Some mediterranean europeans are more closely geneticly related to middle easterners than to northern europeans. Since the 2 groups (european and middle eastern) are mixed together, they are classified together, even though most of them are not related. The truth is that most middle easterners are no more closely geneticly related to most europeans than they are related to east asians or amerindians.

Answer 3

Because we don’t find Arab/middle eastern on there along with the other races and by the way im Arab and white, we don’t all came from Africa im from the United Arab Emirates and im white when I used to go out with my friend who is Italian American every body think that we were sisters, we do look like Caucasians same of us at lest.

Answer 4

North Africans/Arabs are genetically VERY similar to Caucasians. Culturally different, but racially almost the same.

Answer 5

That is an excellent question: And investigation shows qiute a bit of politics and wishful thinking:
I have seen countless Egyptians that could not have gotten a drink of water at a white's only water fountain in the American south of the pre-1960's.
Under the Reagan administration the new secretary of Education was reporting to the whitehouse and was outraged to hear the comments of whitehouse personnel that were referring to Arabs as "sand *******" because of the historical mixing of the arabs with African wife's etc.So it is inevitable that some like the crown prince Sabah for example takes on a very African appearance in splendid arab type robes..
I am aware of an Egyptian school teacher that migrated to Chicago sued the American Immigration for forcing him to sign up as white when to all his appearance is black.
As was Egyptian President Anwar Sadat whose mother was very black.I have their family portrait for all to see. Thats why when Pres Sadat would visit the USA he would stop in to meet with the congressional Black caucus (of the American congress).
The game goes on : I have an Egyptian friend who told me that when in Egypt he is "white" but in America he is black.
So the game goes on............................................................

Answer 6

I dont think they are considered white. They are arabs. With Arab Complexion.(Dark) or light skinned Aferican American. Are u upset that they might be considered white? IF so ARE U UPSET THAT IM A *****? Im lightskinned just like them because my great great grandmother was raped by a slave master. Does that make me better? no it just shows how some white people are pigs. Do I judge them all? No, only the ones who judge me

Answer 7

i hate it that they have to do that. why can't the survey or application have arab/middle eastern on there along with latino and all those other ones.

Answer 8

because they are, Caucasian refers to the craniofacial bone structure, the being white your thinking of is the Aryan race

Answer 9

not in my town.