Quote Originally Posted by Romik View Post
Do you know that for the Census the people from the Middle East, Arabs, Persians, Pakistanis, Hindu are Caucasians and whites but not Asians?
I know this. My daughter's father was Moroccan. Some people don't know, but Morocco is an Arab country in North West Africa. They are descended from the Spanish Moors actually. And the Moors were descended from the Middle Eastern Arabs. When Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon annexed Granada in 1492 for Spain and began the Spanish Inqusition, most of the Muslim Moors, even the Jews, fled to Africa and settled upon its Northern Coast. They are considered white (except for the Black Arabs, because there are Black Arabs). I always wondered how it is politically correct to call a Black person "African American," when their family has been American for several generations, but not my white daughter? Whose father was directly from the continent of Africa? The whole Ethnicity/Race stuff confuses me! But, honestly it doesn't bother me all that much. My daughter is half African and proud!