The illusion of race

[How to be wise]

This woman does not have parents of different races. In fact, most of the people in her country share the same ethnicity. But what is it? Arab or African? Sudan is in the Arab league, but also considered part of Sub Saharan Africa. This country destroys the sharp distinctions that are drawn between two races, for example Arab and African.

 

[Carl-Richard]

There a countless examples of this. Are people from Siberia white?

[snowyowl]

You choose your own racial identity, it's not assigned to you by the authorities, except for extreme cases like apartheid South Africa. So the answer to both questions above is to ask the individual people themselves. I've stopped guessing anyone's race just from looking at them. 

[Leo Gura]

Africans and Arabs have been interbreeding for a long time. Arabs have a long reach historically, from Spain to India.

[snowyowl]

4 hours ago, datamonster said:

People often start talking to me in Arabic and Turkish, which sometimes leads to fun situations. This even happened to me in Turkey.

reminds me of when I was on holiday in Turkey and was mistaken for a local, because I have a slightly darker complexion than most other Brits there, and no tattoos!  

Edited January 28, 2021 by snowyowl