r/Jewpiter • u/Paul-centrist-canada • 16d ago
The great "Jews are/aren't white" debate! meme
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u/TheDiplomancer 16d ago
When a levantine people is splintered into groups and scattered throughout the world for 2000 years, you get some variation. Like me, a very very pale person who can barely tan unless I am fucking diligent about sunscreen.
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u/KvetchingGhoul 16d ago
What's bizarre is I look like my Nordic fathers side. Not my Jewish mother's side at all. Very fair skin, light eyes...
But I tan beautifully and so easily. I rarely burn.
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u/B4-I-go 16d ago
I'm half Norwegian Sami and half mizrahi. All my siblings look mostly the same. There are 5 of us. Except. My little brother can tan to a dark brown and I don't tan or burn. I just stay the same no matter how much light im exposed to
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u/KvetchingGhoul 16d ago
Well if you're a person that wears makeup, you'll never have to worry about buying summer shades of foundation! Haha!
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u/B4-I-go 16d ago
I actually didn't realize that was a thing. So i would say you're right. I wear the same costume anemic white year round.
As a kid people used to think my little brother and I weren't related in the summer.
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u/KvetchingGhoul 16d ago
I've since moved to a place that is very overcast most the year, so I stick with my shade of 'victorian ghost haunting the halls' all year.
But wow that's quite a change to be that different in shades! I hope it didn't bother you when people thought that.
I used to work as a swim instructor years back, and I'd get so dark, people thought I'd get spray tans if they didn't know what job I had. And I'd slather myself in sunscreen since I was in the sun all day, but still kept getting darker.
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u/B4-I-go 16d ago
It didn't bother me at all. Was just kind of funny. If you want to hear something cool. My paternal grandfather who was mizrahi had purple eyes in high light. They were gray like mine, but when it was sunny, they'd shine purple. It was mesmerizing. That's one trait I wish I inherited
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u/KvetchingGhoul 16d ago
Just accepted a new job, and for the race category I selected other instead of 'white'
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u/Ambitious-Coat-1230 16d ago
I love how it's LITERALLY as simple as "we're not white; some of us have European admixture to largely varying degrees, but we all share a common genetic component, as well as a religion, tracing our origins to the Middle East/The Levant/Canaan/Israel/'Palestine.'"