Bienenhalde wrote:Bear Stearns wrote:
If white = European, then Jews aren't white.
if white = light skin, then there are tons of people from all over the world who would be considered white
Indeed. Though the division of Europe from Asia itself is an arbitrary construct that arose due to the influence of the ancient Greeks, who lived around the boundary of the two "continents" and thus divided Eurasia between the people to their west and the people to their east out of convenience.
That is a good point. The division between Europe and Asia is an arbitrary line, it is not like people just across it look dramatically different.
Greeks, Italians and Levantine Arabs do not often look suddenly different because of said line.