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Arabs and Persians: We don't want to be White


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2019 Apr 1, 11:17am   850 views  6 comments

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Sarah Shabbar grew up in Santa Barbara feeling underrepresented. In school, she was counted among the white students and wondered why she had to “conform to something I don’t agree with.”

“It was such a weird thing to grow up and be told, ‘You should be proud to be Jordanian. You should be proud of where you come from,’” said Shabbar, now a graduate student at California State University, Northridge. “None of these forms are allowing me to feel proud of it, because I’m just white according to them.”

Her parents would tell her to choose “white” if that’s how Middle Eastern people were classified by the government, she said. There wasn’t a discussion about identity, or what it would mean to properly classify the community.

“It’s like, khalas, just put it,” said Shabbar, using the Arabic word for “enough.” “For them it doesn’t matter. Until you apply for college … then it’s like, there’s no money for Arabs?”
https://www.theeagle.com/news/nation/census-bureau-says-arabs-and-persians-are-white-but-many/article_693f8cb0-9a70-52e8-aa24-8afa12c03d29.html

The Aryans demand:
Give Money and Benefits!

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1   Ceffer   2019 Apr 1, 11:38am  

How about a category for "Heinz 57 Miscegenated and Miscellaneous Ethnicity, but still qualifying for lots of extra free shit, hall passes, absolutions and diversity considerations due to melanin content".
2   Rin   2019 Apr 1, 12:35pm  

MisterLearnToCode says
Sarah Shabbar grew up in Santa Barbara feeling underrepresented


Idiot, so now, she wants to be 'Asian-American' and get that rejection letter from Stanford and Yale for being too generic & boring.
3   Shaman   2019 Apr 1, 3:32pm  

Yah unless you are black or can legit claim Native American, there is no money for you.
Or privilege.
4   Rin   2019 Apr 1, 3:33pm  

What's hilarious is that Armenians, yes, just as ancient "Aryan" as Persians, are whites and aren't complaining.
6   Ceffer   2019 Apr 3, 1:59pm  

Iranians become mucho miffed if you call them Arabs. They might even drop a nuke on you.

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