italians and greeks?

Question

my bf of 5 years is 100% sicilian and im black

he is very dark skinned and has long wavy black hair.

he could pass for hispanic or white/black mix easily. thats why people dont trip thinkin we're not an interatial couple

i personally dont consider greeks or italians white. i djust dont.

does any one else feel the way i do

Answer 1

"White" usually refers to Caucasians, from the Caucasus Mountains originally. I apologize if you know this already. I'll skip the anthropological lecture and just say that it seems to me that the further south you go in Europe, the more likely you are to see darker skinned people (Mediterranean, for example). Someone once told me that depending on whether one is from northern Italy or southern Italy he or she might have the darker skin and darker hair. I had a teacher in grade school who was one of the darker complected Italians. I also have a friend who is Greek, and I honestly never gave it much thought about whether she looks white or not. But in any case, it's not important to *me* whether they look "white" or not, but that's just me, so take it for what it's worth. Incidentally my husband is Hispanic and we've often wondered what our kids would look like if we'd had any.

Answer 2

Yes, of course Greeks & Italians (including Sicilians) are white, as are the Spanish (from Spain) & the Portuguese.
The white race is divided into three subsets: Nordic, Alpine & Mediterranean. Greeks & Sicilians, as well asTurks, would be classified as Mediterranean, along with many of the people of southern Italy. The Spanish & Portuguese are really more of a Nordic/Celtic blend than Mediterranean.
Also, skin color does not define race in any way. It's all about craniofacial anthropometry. The term "white" is not really meant to be taken so literally. It is just a term of convenience to contrast Caucasoids from sub-Saharan Africans (Negroids) & East Asians (Mongoloids).
In addition to ALL of Europe & the Middle East, most North Africans & West Asians are also considered Caucasian.
The term Caucasian, as it applies to race, has nothing to do with the Caucasus region, although it was once believed that the white race originated there. That notion was abandoned decades ago but the term remains, however, as a synonym for a white person, regardless of actual skin tone.
Too bad so many people seem to cling to the narrow-minded notion that only Anglo-Saxons are white. Same applies to those who think that Hispanics can't be white when, in fact, unmixed whites comprise fully one-third of the population of Latin America. The single largest racial group there, in fact.
In all my years, I have never encountered this opinion about Mediterranean peoples until I came to YA last year. This notion of Italians, in particular, somehow being nonwhite seems to be especially prevalent among young African Americans for some reason. (BTW, to those who point out an African admixture in this region, what small percentage exists would be North African and not sub-Saharan anyway.)
In addition, I've also noticed that many people, regardless of their own background, seem to confuse ethnicity and race but they are two entirely different things.
Hopefully, this sort of erroneous thinking is merely a reflection of youthful naivete and not some form of racism, where a person or a group cannot be comfortably accepted or considered "cool" unless they can be seen as nonwhite.

Answer 3

This just goes to show that this dicerning race and a people by the colour of their skin is silly.... the irony of it all is that Greeks are considered to have one of the oldes civilizations in Europe, and they were white...

.. although Italians and spanish have more mixture with the peoples of Africa, a lot of Greeks are just as dark if not darker... just goes to show its not where your from but how much UVA your country spews...

Answer 4

it all depend on regions

in some parts of Italy, men are kind of dark skin, in some other parts, white skin! same in Greece

Answer 5

I'm very tired about these question of the colour of skin,Usa is very bigot andi racist.if you americans come in Italy with this mentality,we can beat you very hard,so if you come in Italy thinking all the people are the same you are welcome if not stay at home!

Answer 6

I think that they are medeterranian, which is pretty much hispanic. remember, the culture in italy and greece is similar to spanish culture, and their people look similar. Hope that helps