However, I do admit of being guilty of often looking at very white and light-colored Arab girls and thinking “Is her mother European?”. I normally imagine Arab people dark. Somor ya3neh. But it’s not normally the sun’s work, it goes back to the origins I think.

Nice blog, btw

You know whats funnier is pale people trying so hard to look dark/olive skinned that they turn orange. I wished people would look past the skin colour – black, white, green or orange.

Here (in the Basque Country) we tend to use the term “Mediterranean” meaning people that is pretty much tanned all the year round, some of which can perfectly be the sybling of a blue-eyed blond (my cousins are that way: three brothers are blond and blue eyed like the dream of Hitler and the other is dark as… as an Arab). We think all them are white anyhow. We even think that Gypsies (Roma) are white, what for us is roughly the same as Caucasoid, not a matter of skin tone.

But I was just reading this article on early 20th century Palestine, full of most interesting photos, and my thoughts were on the line of: it’s much like it was here, except… the mosques? Well that too but specialy what called my attention is how many people looked not really “Mediterranean” (like a Greek or a Moroccan) but rather kind of “Indian” in many cases.

But Indians are white to me too. If Roma are, Indians are too.