I see. Over here it's different: anyone who doesn't show evident extra-European heritage is seen as white (meaning that a Turkish person who looks central Asian would be considered Asian, one that doesn't would not, unless him/herself identified as such)
Cultural elements don't really enter the equation, culture is (not in everybody's mind, but generally)kept separate from ethnicity. For instance one can very well be a practicing Muslim and live into a culture steeped in Islamic tradition and be of Indo-European stock (like most Iranians, for instance)
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Date: 2010-06-11 04:16 am (UTC)Over here it's different: anyone who doesn't show evident extra-European heritage is seen as white (meaning that a Turkish person who looks central Asian would be considered Asian, one that doesn't would not, unless him/herself identified as such)
Cultural elements don't really enter the equation, culture is (not in everybody's mind, but generally)kept separate from ethnicity. For instance one can very well be a practicing Muslim and live into a culture steeped in Islamic tradition and be of Indo-European stock (like most Iranians, for instance)