Therefore, here, Mexicans are considered POC, but dark-skinned Italians are not and other Mediterranean peoples are not. In my opinion, they would be your thing and would have as many variations as you want. The federal government officially classifies people from Lebanon, Iran, Egypt and other countries in the MENA region as white. However, that racial identity has fallen short of the discrimination in housing, at work and in other aspects of daily life that many say they have faced.
However, a recently published study co-authored with Maghbouleh provides suggestive evidence that most people with MENA backgrounds do not see themselves as white. Meanwhile, the study also suggests that a substantial percentage of white people who do not identify as Latinas or those from the MENA region also do not perceive people from the region as white. However, during the administration of former President Donald Trump, initiatives undertaken during the Obama years to introduce a checkbox in the MENA region as part of a new census question about race and ethnicity stalled. Approval from the White House Office of Management and Budget was required, and the lack of a public decision by the OMB forced the agency to abandon plans.
The consequences? We had to practically abandon the mother tongue of our ancestors, which is the way in which traditions and customs are preserved, which are transmitted from one generation to the next. We concealed or exchanged any custom that had been described as picturesque, but labeled as alien, to show that they were worth the same as those who were above us on the ladder of success. In this way, Americans of Mediterranean origin achieved whiteness, but to a lesser degree than that of the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant rule. Even the majority of the inhabitants of Eastern Europe benefit from their traits with blond hair and blue eyes.
The bioessentialist assumptions typical of previous theories of racial superiority form a remarkable background in what should be a purely scientific analysis of genomic similarities and differences in the ancient Mediterranean. Yaron Eliav uses Roman baths as a historical microcosm to explore how Mediterranean Jews interacted with Greco-Roman culture. Wells stated that Semitic and Hamitic populations were primarily Mediterranean in type, and that Aryan populations were originally Norse in type. In addition, at the time of Homer, Greek immigrants were traveling to southern Italy and to many other places in the Mediterranean in search for a new life.
The dawn of the Roman Empire brought about massive changes in the ethnic composition of the ancient Mediterranean. Seligman also stated that, in my opinion, it must be recognized that the Mediterranean race actually has more achievements than any other, since it is responsible, by far, for most of the Mediterranean civilization, certainly before 1000 BC. C. According to Winterer, “Carthage gave the modern marketing spirit a respectable ancient Mediterranean pedigree, suggesting that trade, republicanism and imperialism were not incompatible, but could be blended harmoniously.
Locals and immigrants living in Cyprus inhabited a cultural crossroads where Near Eastern and Aegean ideas had been meeting and blending for a long time. Through her depiction of Medea as a Colchian princess, readers and the public gain valuable information about the challenges faced by foreigners in the ancient Mediterranean. Johannes Siapkas ends his overview of the use of ethnic studies in this field by recommending two lines of action for scholars of the ancient Mediterranean. The highest Mediterraneans (AtlantiMediterraneans) were Neolithic sailors who sailed in reed-type ships and colonized the Mediterranean basin from the Near East. Given this geographical context, scholars have analyzed the societies that live in this “intermediate zone” in terms of ethnocultural identities that combine elements of Greek and Near Eastern ethnic constructions Orient.
Later, in the 20th century, theorists such as Earnest Hooton in Up From the Ape (193) and Carleton S. He further stated that Mediterranean people constituted the main element of the population in Pakistan and Northern India.
