For what it’s worth, I know a Jewish person who describes herself as “provisionally white”.
Aside from any nervousness caused by the third reich, she looks white when she’s around white people, but Hispanic to Hispanics. They ask her what country she’s from.
I also know an Italian-American (light skin, hair, and eyes) who ran into so much anti-Italian prejudice when she was young that she decided she wasn’t white. She’s since concluded that only the top 1% is white.
If you look at how race plays out in people’s minds, there’s a lot more variation than you might expect.
For what it’s worth, I know a Jewish person who describes herself as “provisionally white”.
Aside from any nervousness caused by the third reich, she looks white when she’s around white people, but Hispanic to Hispanics. They ask her what country she’s from.
I also know an Italian-American (light skin, hair, and eyes) who ran into so much anti-Italian prejudice when she was young that she decided she wasn’t white. She’s since concluded that only the top 1% is white.
If you look at how race plays out in people’s minds, there’s a lot more variation than you might expect.