Israelis: Are you white?

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  • @enchyxxx
    @enchyxxx Před 5 lety +3219

    I don't think whoever sent this question realized that the majority of the world doesn't identify themselves based on North American racial terms.

    • @marksimons8861
      @marksimons8861 Před 5 lety +55

      On top of that, the question is closed. It would be better if you asked what (or which) racial group do believe you belong to? Handy suggestions might be useful as it doesn't seem to be something Israelis think a lot about.

    • @BeautifulGood713
      @BeautifulGood713 Před 5 lety +29

      That’s kinda the point of the channel tho, isn’t it? Ask questions you don’t know the answer to. 🤷🏽‍♀️

    • @theenlightenedatheist3953
      @theenlightenedatheist3953 Před 5 lety +46

      'White' and 'black' are North American racial terms? How do say, Chinese people think of Africans and Europeans?

    • @nielsqbc4
      @nielsqbc4 Před 5 lety +70

      It is mostly the media in the USA and Europe keeping up the racism conversation, people get really tired of it!

    • @svlo3245
      @svlo3245 Před 5 lety +24

      Middel eastern people are white majority of them are white

  • @oyemate8647
    @oyemate8647 Před 5 lety +2221

    I love how most of these people are like 'what the hell is this question'. The American obsession with race is ridiculous

    • @oyemate8647
      @oyemate8647 Před 3 lety +20

      @Mariamne DaMotta what will it change if i read it AGAIN? Ive heard an american say ,,as an italian, do you concider yourself white?’’ That says a lot about how crazy they are

    • @BioChemistryWizard
      @BioChemistryWizard Před 3 lety +21

      @Kourosh Thats the irony of it

    • @Dilbert1999
      @Dilbert1999 Před 3 lety +1

      Explain the Solomon Tekah situation then.

    • @earljohnson50
      @earljohnson50 Před 3 lety +32

      Liberal Jews in political office keep pushing that particular envelope. Believe me I’m ready for a meritocracy and no race mentioned at all.

    • @oyemate8647
      @oyemate8647 Před 3 lety

      @@prismaticgangster5789 they obviously are

  • @carolinesa91
    @carolinesa91 Před 5 lety +645

    I am Jewish. Here in Brazil I am considered white, because of my skin color, but in the U.S I would probably be considered latino.

    • @duckydarkstar38
      @duckydarkstar38 Před 5 lety +30

      In America when you sign up for government papers you have to check a box 1. white 2. Black. 3. Asian. Thats it . Once in a blue it might say -option 4. Native American .

    • @mapache69.
      @mapache69. Před 4 lety +22

      Caroline Araujo i mean it depends. I have a Brazilian Jewish friend here in Canada and we considered him Hispanic but technically we consider Hispanics a variety of White people.

    • @momemoe7520
      @momemoe7520 Před 4 lety +11

      @@duckydarkstar38 so korean asians and tamil indian asians are in the same box huh?

    • @Bembo2011
      @Bembo2011 Před 4 lety +55

      Caroline Araujo Latino/a is not a race... it’s an ethnic and cultural background. There are white Latinos, mixed Latinos, Asian Latinos, black Latinos etc. it is not a race....

    • @stevecucamonga
      @stevecucamonga Před 4 lety +3

      @@momemoe7520 yes the categories in those boxes are kind of arbitrary

  • @creepyglider5520
    @creepyglider5520 Před 3 lety +266

    Ido: "somewhere in between. Definitely not white, but not black either."
    Americans: "wait, that's illegal"

    • @curiousmind_
      @curiousmind_ Před 3 lety +5

      @xi jinping lol he's not brown either

    • @slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447
      @slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447 Před 3 lety

      @xi jinping I would call him "light-brown"

    • @goncalodias6402
      @goncalodias6402 Před 3 lety

      @@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447 so basically... everyone thats not from north and central europe....

    • @slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447
      @slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447 Před 3 lety +1

      @@goncalodias6402 no, there are people who are darker than that, and there are also many african and middle eastern people who are just as white as north europeans

    • @goncalodias6402
      @goncalodias6402 Před 3 lety

      @@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447 so you agree with me

  • @MrMik3159
    @MrMik3159 Před 5 lety +1387

    I don't think people in Israel think in very Anglo-American racial terms. Shocker.

    • @ewqdsacxz765
      @ewqdsacxz765 Před 5 lety +90

      Race is a European concept. People from non-Western cultures get confused when you try to talk to them about race.

    • @CT-7567R3X
      @CT-7567R3X Před 5 lety +50

      @@ewqdsacxz765 Race is not a concept it's science but black and white aren't races. Caucasian and Congoid are the real term and israelis are for the most caucasians.

    • @aliaguerin1266
      @aliaguerin1266 Před 5 lety +140

      In europe we dont ask what race you are We ask what country you come from. Black and white and colorsm is typically an American thing.

    • @SocialistFinn1
      @SocialistFinn1 Před 5 lety +68

      @@ewqdsacxz765 not even European, it's a European colonial concept, meaning that it's only in the former European colonies such as America, Brazil etc. In Europe itself race is not really a factor, it's more about nationality, religion and culture.

    • @SocialistFinn1
      @SocialistFinn1 Před 5 lety +2

      @@aliaguerin1266 exactly

  • @AssafChriqui
    @AssafChriqui Před 5 lety +1640

    Oh my God, Karen, you can’t just ask people why they're White.

    • @rachelrose4691
      @rachelrose4691 Před 5 lety +37

      Best comment

    • @misstafara1916
      @misstafara1916 Před 5 lety +3

      Lol

    • @mayale3394
      @mayale3394 Před 5 lety +7

      hahaha exactly what I was thinking!!

    • @nielsqbc4
      @nielsqbc4 Před 5 lety +8

      everybody assuming that the middle east is the same skin color now as it was 1000 or 2000 years ago. Human migration and african slaves might have some impact

    • @beagleonvodka
      @beagleonvodka Před 5 lety +4

      Stupid question indeed.

  • @sedifric873
    @sedifric873 Před 5 lety +210

    That last bearded guy looks like someone you could have an interesting conversation wiith.

    • @stevecucamonga
      @stevecucamonga Před 4 lety +9

      He talked like someone you could have a conversation with

    • @followyourideas
      @followyourideas Před 3 lety

      No thanks

    • @elivingt
      @elivingt Před 3 lety +1

      He nailed it.
      Identify is relative.
      In a group of Asian a Americans of all races will be "Americans".
      In a large group of Americans, they'll break by identify groups

    • @adriand817
      @adriand817 Před 3 lety

      He might be a former hippie

    • @fransgalea4534
      @fransgalea4534 Před 3 lety

      @@adriand817 lol

  • @faisalalan8633
    @faisalalan8633 Před 5 lety +373

    When I first landed in U.S., I was stunned by the question of my race! I didn't know what race I belong to! All I know is I'm Arab!

    • @dorbitan2935
      @dorbitan2935 Před 5 lety +134

      Us Jews same problem, America is obsessed with race. I'm a Jew who have white skin and my father has dark skin. What tf am I? hahah

    • @komfykoala6083
      @komfykoala6083 Před 4 lety +42

      I'm American, they ask everyone for their race to keep track of your identity (ie for your driver's license, doctor appointments, college applications, etc...). Arabs and Jews are both diverse groups of people since you can have very dark people with black hair and brown skin and eyes and people with blonde hair and blue eyes and fair skin (like Ahed Tamimi).

    • @komfykoala6083
      @komfykoala6083 Před 4 lety +21

      @@dorbitan2935 I'm not Jewish but I'm on the same boat (my dad is Arab and dark and I have light skin and lighter hair). Again America is focused on race because it's a country of people with different backgrounds. It's not like Europe where native people are white or China where native people are Chinese. The US is a melting pot. I'm mixed Arab and European but it does get complicated when people ask me what I am because I'm mixed and I grew up among different cultures. It would be easier if someone wasn't very mixed/mixed looking.

    • @komfykoala6083
      @komfykoala6083 Před 4 lety +8

      @Queen It's important for identification. What if someone went missing or was kidnapped? Specifying their race can help identify them.

    • @radziahradzi
      @radziahradzi Před 4 lety +12

      @@komfykoala6083 identifying by race can help if they are missing? Really? what if a mixed person is white looking but racially on documents he is black, so when it's described a 6foot black male, for example, people are looking for black male but in appearance he is white, so how?

  • @OrenBlau
    @OrenBlau Před 5 lety +205

    you could have asked Ethiopian Israeli Jews if they are white

    • @indiannataylor3994
      @indiannataylor3994 Před 5 lety +18

      That would have been fun

    • @whattruth9976
      @whattruth9976 Před 4 lety +18

      מה נראה לך שנענה?

    • @hardcandy7112
      @hardcandy7112 Před 4 lety

      how about Ethiopian only if they were born in that country forget the other two that for benefits .

    • @mrsnoodlearms7297
      @mrsnoodlearms7297 Před 3 lety +3

      They aren’t they are black

    •  Před 3 lety +1

      exactly! because people that asked wanted to know if ISRAELIS are white

  • @mayale3394
    @mayale3394 Před 5 lety +385

    "You turned out different"
    "Thank you"
    LOL.

    • @checkcheck1579
      @checkcheck1579 Před 4 lety +15

      he look like a mongol. so, he definitely is not white. but I wonder why the host did not, interview the blondes and the redheads with blue eyes. I wanted to see their reactions

    • @Neorient
      @Neorient Před 4 lety +1

      Tragic

    • @jakooob2012
      @jakooob2012 Před 4 lety +10

      Wtf he seems to be nice 😇

    • @mukhumor
      @mukhumor Před 4 lety +1

      It's funny how a homosexual guy with a face full of piercings seems like a 'normal ' guy in israel.

    • @avishag8752
      @avishag8752 Před 3 lety +6

      @@checkcheck1579 Actually here in israel it's not really common. Most of the israeli people have brown hair and brown eyes.

  • @guynehemia4029
    @guynehemia4029 Před 3 lety +187

    11:13 "My ethnic identity is defined only in relation to Society." That's a smart man right there. I never understood the obssession Americans have with identifying everything as "Black" or "White".

    • @lala-ct9ir
      @lala-ct9ir Před 3 lety +10

      I don't understand it either. I live in northern Europe and I don't think of people this way. Israel is also a good example of why identity politics on the basis of skin colour just does not work.

    • @saltlessbread
      @saltlessbread Před 3 lety +1

      hey can you tell me what our interpretation of that sentence he said?

    • @desireawinton9745
      @desireawinton9745 Před 3 lety +1

      That is because of white racist, people trying to say everyone that has straight hair is white, or European, when most of the world is mixed, with everything but European?' They like to divide people, and spread their WS!

    • @andi8717
      @andi8717 Před 3 lety +1

      @@desireawinton9745 Wait so only white people say that? Thats funny cause Ive heard the same garbage from many different races. 🤔 I do agree that it is ignorance to assume someone's race via hair texture and skin tone, but it isnt just white people doing that.

    • @desireawinton9745
      @desireawinton9745 Před 3 lety

      @@andi8717 "Yea I know, it is the ignorance of slave mentality, colonialism ect... and people that don't want to learn to not be so ignorant of things?"

  • @user-zf8kt7nv8t
    @user-zf8kt7nv8t Před 3 lety +92

    I am Arab with white skin, my cousin is brown, and my other cousin has blond hair, so we don't think about whether we are white or black, we are mixed and I think the Israelis are the same thing

    • @SigalDa
      @SigalDa Před 3 lety +2

      there arabs who israelis dont belong to this area beacause skin color even though the europeqns jews dosent look white like originale europeans.
      and like you said there is arabs that are white and even blond.

    • @ghostil1432
      @ghostil1432 Před 3 lety

      Yep pretty much the same concept, there are people who came from different places so of course we have people that are 'white' and 'black' but for us it's not more than a color, even in religions and such, we're all in the same country so it doesn't matter to us

    • @unionjack2209
      @unionjack2209 Před 3 lety +3

      I am brown. Love from Bangladesh ❤️

    • @thesilentway1086
      @thesilentway1086 Před 3 lety +7

      Sure , there are Arabs like Ahed Tamimi and others like Taleb Tawatha , There are Israeli Jews like Titi Einao and others like Bar Refaeli - most Arabs and most Jews are somewhere in the middle .

    • @sidimightbe3246
      @sidimightbe3246 Před rokem

      Same with Serbs, you can look like an Irish to an Iraqi

  • @erlich85
    @erlich85 Před 5 lety +575

    Israelis just don't define them selves by skin color. if you want to call a person black or white that's fine and they wont mind in Israel. they could care less. most people didn't even understand where you were going with your question.

    • @kolektib
      @kolektib Před 5 lety +76

      I asked this same question to an Israeli. He was confused about the question. This whole black, brown, white thing would make sense in the US but it's not applicable to all countries. Americans seems to be obsessed with these things. (I'm a brown Asian btw.)

    • @marksimons8861
      @marksimons8861 Před 5 lety +8

      As you'll see from the opening 0:04 the question was posed by three people from the USA. This is where it all came from.
      That doesn't mean that racism doesn't exist elsewhere. In the days of the Empire, the question was whether one was "English" or not. The Scots and the Welsh were sort of honorary English, distinguishable principally by accent.
      There were unpleasant names for all other groups regardless of skin colour and sometimes just labelled as "foreigners" distinguishable mainly by their eating habits.

    • @jaykay415
      @jaykay415 Před 5 lety +11

      @@@kolektib it makes sense in the US because we are multi-cultural, multi-racial to a degree not seen elsewhere (at least in our cities). Also, we have a legal history which was defined in part by race (slavery). We also had a massive civil rights movement, and are having one, in a sense, again. So this issue is a greater part of our reality than it is for most other countries, certainly those in Asia.

    • @omersetty682
      @omersetty682 Před 5 lety +11

      As an Israeli you 100% right

    • @worldview730
      @worldview730 Před 5 lety +1

      True, But it's a shame that most people can only see as far as their or the next person's skin color 👍👍👍👍

  • @thomasip525
    @thomasip525 Před 5 lety +1219

    the brownest guy claims he's white LOL

    • @aliner1546
      @aliner1546 Před 5 lety +83

      Thomas IP
      In Hebrew we do not have a word that describes Caucasians, some of us simply use the word white, yet many people wont even say the word white because it also refers to skin color regardless of race or ethnic group, they will just divide it into ethnic groups such as Ashkenazi mizrahim arabs ethiopians and more..

    • @ringkite
      @ringkite Před 5 lety +8

      @@aliner1546 hebrew is incapable of describing the Caucasus Mtns. #TIL

    • @aliner1546
      @aliner1546 Před 5 lety +55

      cub
      There is the word "Kavkazi" but it describes Georgians, Bukharans and all the ethnicities that came from the Caucasus. This is not a synonym for white caucasian. You can not say that people from Europe are caucasian because in Hebrew the word describes only territory and not a particular race

    • @ringkite
      @ringkite Před 5 lety +1

      @@aliner1546 update: TIL a new word for part of my family tree, thanks!

    • @northbride55
      @northbride55 Před 5 lety +47

      Inferiority complex runs deep in these characters where they believe that skin color determines your worth as a human being. Pathetic!

  • @greenlilac32
    @greenlilac32 Před 3 lety +63

    “We are closer to Mexicans” LOL as a Mexican I thought that, they are like us with many different skin tones LOL

    • @hanyu_dada
      @hanyu_dada Před 3 lety +6

      mexicans have native american traits very easily identifiable these guys don't tho

    • @greenlilac32
      @greenlilac32 Před 3 lety +2

      @@hanyu_dada not always
      My family is indigenous Mexican but we have a lot of varied skin tones
      My grandma was the lightest one of our family but she was almost fully indigenous. Whereas my father who is half is easily darker than she was

    • @paulapough1238
      @paulapough1238 Před 3 lety +1

      That’s because the so called Mexicans are originally from one of the 12 tribes that were spread throughout the world along with so called Native Americans and so called African Americans. The people who occupy the land of Israel are NOT the Children of Israel!! Have you heard of the synagogue of satan? Those are the people in the Bible who pretend to be Jews but are not, that’s why they are called Jew-ish.

    • @Andres-uw2kf
      @Andres-uw2kf Před 3 lety

      @@paulapough1238 Mayate

    • @bhazerelli7611
      @bhazerelli7611 Před 3 lety +1

      @@paulapough1238 what about the Ir-ish and the Swed-ish and the Pol-ish? Lol

  • @talpasternak538
    @talpasternak538 Před 3 lety +175

    This series reflects much more on the American asking the questions than it does on the locals answering them. This is like an Indian asking someone in the US if he identifies as a Brahmin.

    • @lala-ct9ir
      @lala-ct9ir Před 3 lety +1

      Thank you, precisely!

    • @AKumar-co7oe
      @AKumar-co7oe Před 3 lety +3

      Or a South African going to an African American and asking if they consider non Bantus as Black.

    • @RizwanKhan-sc5yp
      @RizwanKhan-sc5yp Před 3 lety

      Lmao 😅😆😅
      What an analogy!

    • @julian-mtf2ponto109
      @julian-mtf2ponto109 Před 2 lety

      that's not quite accu6if you know the social connotatio s in comparison to actual sastra, i.e difference being between Brahmin and sudra, I'm european/eurasian hindu, my family russia/Mongolian, I have both features etc

    • @matthewrose3353
      @matthewrose3353 Před 2 lety +3

      The guy asking the question's Canadian.

  • @ewqdsacxz765
    @ewqdsacxz765 Před 5 lety +496

    6:01. It's really cute how the Moroccan siblings were wearing those matching glasses.

    • @oyemate8647
      @oyemate8647 Před 5 lety +28

      and how surprised Corey was when they said they were siblings

    • @8kigana
      @8kigana Před 5 lety +27

      I was surpised, they looked and kind of acted a bit like a couple. I expect kids to act so chummy with their siblings and not adults. Just my opinion.

    • @omgfinally4340
      @omgfinally4340 Před 5 lety +35

      I think they're twins

    • @andallahelansary1517
      @andallahelansary1517 Před 5 lety +3

      @@omgfinally4340 انا ايضا اظنهم توأم

    • @eastafricana1584
      @eastafricana1584 Před 5 lety +2

      Why they are not morocco if they are

  • @mrbedwars9988
    @mrbedwars9988 Před 3 lety +43

    I don't get the whole "race obsession" thing Americans have. Can someone please explain?

    • @falloutfox2251
      @falloutfox2251 Před 3 lety +3

      The USA is a multicultural country so people often identify with a race, furthermore racial issues between races, brings race into American news.

    • @natalieac8409
      @natalieac8409 Před 3 lety +8

      The issue of race started in the US to create easily identifiable classes. From there the elite used race as a way to pit one group against another. Unfortunately it worked too well, because some truly believe in it and live by it.

    • @natalieac8409
      @natalieac8409 Před 3 lety +1

      Some say it started with colonialism and was reinforced in the US because we held on to it longer in our way of life.

    • @natalieac8409
      @natalieac8409 Před 3 lety

      Oh, it also dictated intelligence level. White being the most.

    • @daanhunnik7691
      @daanhunnik7691 Před 3 lety +2

      Well...
      If you look before the colonisation period you will find that there was a lack of slavery compared to other parts of the world within europe. This was mostly the result of the idea that all people are equal under god. As a result the only way in which slavery could occur is if one person was well ... less human.. and this is what happend in the colonisation period. The west stumbled upon people stuck at the bottom of the techtree and declared them not to be human. That's how the transatlantic slave trade was justified. There were literally zoos that housed black people. (Don't get me wrong most of the slaves were bought from native inhabitants in exchange for guns so how they thought they weren't humans is beyond me. But the kkk for instance still believes that blacks and whites are different species)
      As you might be able to geuss this resulted in quite a bit of history that put emphasis on race, which is why it has become a very loaded subject.
      Another reason why the distinction is made along broad "racial" lines instead of ethnic lines is because the original language and heritage of those enslaved blacks was lost as they and their children adopted the english language. And the age of America as "the great melting pod" saw lots of immigration but there was much emphasis on assimilation so ethnicity didn't cut it as an effective marker. Which is why those people also got shoehorned into a broad racial group.
      I think this explain why it's such a single dimensional thing in the US and why it's such a loaded subject.

  • @PhreakPhantom
    @PhreakPhantom Před 3 lety +52

    "I am a person of the world"

  • @Simsrockslol
    @Simsrockslol Před 5 lety +373

    why didn’t you ask more ashkenazis

    • @anafahbamidbar5542
      @anafahbamidbar5542 Před 5 lety +83

      As an Ashkenazi, I personally don't see myself at all as "white" other than, yes, my skin color is lighter than the other groups in the region (eastern Mediterranean), but culturally I am [Israeli] Jewish. As an ethnicity, we still as a whole derived from the line of Avraham, who was from the region, so that being said, we're not "white" even though we can be taken for it easily at times.
      Perhaps that's why as a grouping, there was so much assimilation that in America, the Jewish identity is not as defined or dignified as it is elsewhere, so particularly those who grow up without knowledge of their identity, may have the primal urges to love Mediterranean food of the region more, love that music more, etc... without knowing why. We're all family deep down, some are just far away from home.

    • @velvy3784
      @velvy3784 Před 5 lety +6

      The purest Ashkenazis that you see in the US are mostly the Orthodox ones in Israel like the last guy, secular ones are mixed like the brown guy who said his ancestors were from Russia.

    • @Meg-ts3kx
      @Meg-ts3kx Před 5 lety +24

      @LaVioletaAmatista not really. There have always been more Ashkenazim than Mizrahim. You can barely tell one's background nowadays as so many are mixed. And it's not like askenazi jews look German or Irish you know, most also look Mediterranean. My great grandparent is israeli, the other from Morroco and I'm "white", super light skin, green eyes, freckles and all. my best friend is askenazi and looks totally middle Eastern. I just identify as Israeli or Mediterranean, I think most do, these terms are totally outdated and irrelevant here..

    • @Lagolop
      @Lagolop Před 5 lety +7

      @LaVioletaAmatista You are incorrect. I suggest yo visit Israel sometime and see for yourself. Mostly Mizrahi?! Tell that to my relatives that live on a border kibbutz in the south. Sorry but they look Scandinavian.

    • @mta3813
      @mta3813 Před 5 lety +16

      @@Lagolop there are alot of ashknzis that has more european.features then they should. You can see.them mainly in the ultra religious groups. These look very weird and not jewish.

  • @lil_weasel219
    @lil_weasel219 Před 5 lety +26

    White means not much even in a country like Croatia or Slovenia lol. We know the concept, but we don't really call it white. Especially since European ancestry doesnt only include completely pale Northwest europeans.

  • @wandamiancrucifixplate568
    @wandamiancrucifixplate568 Před 5 lety +61

    No wonder the rest of the world thinks we Americans are so simple minded. We are all either "black or white" or "left or right" literally no connection whatsoever to our ancestors and their cultures. Boiling an identity down to one syllable words that you learned when you were first learning words in general? We all really aren't so simple minded it's just the ecosystem our "leaders" have laid out for us.

    • @negy2570
      @negy2570 Před 2 lety +2

      I wouldn't say that the rest of the world think that Americans are simple minded, but generally simply organized in their views on everything being political, religious or cultural. It seems more of a needed semplification in a complicated country, but of course in time this semplification could flat people's brains.
      Also the use of the word "race" is not correct and not in relation to skin colour anyway. It would be better to speak about different ethnicities of a single human race. Skin colour is misleading as there are people with fair skin among people considered black and darker tones in people with a "white" label on them.
      What comes out in physical appearance is often not overlapping genetical ascendance. There are many physical features that make you guess and only guess the ascendance of a person, not just skin colour.
      Face traits, bodily shape, eye shape, noses, shoulders and movements and walking style.
      Generally speaking, with a few exception, people in Israel from these videos would not be considered "white" in Europe, not even South Europe, rather Arab with a wide spectrum because even when very pale or light-haired they show face traits that are not Caucasian, like for example the 1st man and especially the 2nd man would immediately be seen as a foreigner in any European country regardless of his skin tone and it's likely that if he went to Europe people would talk to him in English LOL. That said, it doesn't really make any difference. Still all humans with a very interesting variety of possibilities.

    • @sidimightbe3246
      @sidimightbe3246 Před rokem +1

      Yea fr I’m Serbian but look Northern European but would never claim to be that, I’m just a phenotypically white Mediterranean

  • @Qghsts
    @Qghsts Před 3 lety +52

    2:11 “we are closer to mexicans” yeah as a mexican i reaffirm that, we have lots of whites and lots of tanned looking like him too (I’m exactly his skin tone)

    • @robertovalverdemora9112
      @robertovalverdemora9112 Před 3 lety +1

      Mexicans are indians, the mayority. Indians of America, western indians.

    • @Qghsts
      @Qghsts Před 3 lety +9

      @@robertovalverdemora9112 maybe 1000 years ago, the mexican population is like 70% mestizos what means "mixed", the mix of amerindias and spanish people so the skin colour can be from tanned looking to white, we have only 14% of amerindians population who are direct blood with mayans and aztecs and the left 16% are white race.

    • @paracetamol256
      @paracetamol256 Před 3 lety +3

      I got the same skin tone too! From a completely different part of the world tho

    • @mysupernamegoeshere
      @mysupernamegoeshere Před 3 lety +1

      Well a lot of lebanese people came to mexico, we do share some blood, culture, and skin colour

    • @curiousmind_
      @curiousmind_ Před 3 lety

      @@mysupernamegoeshere he said he was from North Africa

  • @kawan5851
    @kawan5851 Před 3 lety +81

    11:12 "My Ethnic identity is defined in relation to society, to other people". This is the best answer. I hope more people will start thinking like that in the future throughout the world.

    • @mral4381
      @mral4381 Před 2 lety +2

      Israel quietly rejected plenty of African immigrants and shipped them off to Australia because they weren't welcome. The immigration policy is at odds with the perspectives offered by the people being interviewed in this video.

    • @yelihop9255
      @yelihop9255 Před rokem

      No this is not true it’s just a question of color and where u from in the world

    • @itsytyt5192
      @itsytyt5192 Před rokem

      @@mral4381 gh

    • @sidimightbe3246
      @sidimightbe3246 Před rokem +1

      But that’s dumb, I looks Northern European despite being a Serbian and I don’t identify as Northern European just cause I look like it, I’m a Mediterranean Serbian

  • @proteus6467
    @proteus6467 Před 5 lety +250

    The United States is a country where someone like Mariah Carey is considered "black".
    'nuff said lol

    • @Naijiri.
      @Naijiri. Před 5 lety +31

      apparently, "Her father, Alfred Roy Carey, was of African American and Afro-Venezuelan descent, while her mother, Patricia (née Hickey), is of Irish descent." so id say *mixed*

    • @Fire__77
      @Fire__77 Před 5 lety +10

      gerard dearie
      The United States is ran by Israeli dual citizens and Jews
      History gets distorted but that’s changing and fast

    • @Nicole-rj4xz
      @Nicole-rj4xz Před 5 lety +32

      Proteus
      The United States is a country where they say Italians are black

    • @komfykoala6083
      @komfykoala6083 Před 5 lety +11

      She is half black though right?

    • @iprobablydislikeyou2735
      @iprobablydislikeyou2735 Před 4 lety +5

      @@Nicole-rj4xz *used to be considered black
      They're considered white now

  • @kenyanroots
    @kenyanroots Před 3 lety +35

    Mediterranean. The guy who said mediterranean was spot on.

    • @loon0493
      @loon0493 Před 3 lety +4

      EXACTLY!

    • @Imayebrook
      @Imayebrook Před 3 lety +4

      Israel is literally by the meditaranian

    • @sidimightbe3246
      @sidimightbe3246 Před rokem +1

      Mediterranean is just a soft word for light brown 😂

  • @mossakis
    @mossakis Před 3 lety +45

    I am Christian Orthodox from Greece and I look as an Arab.
    Personally, I identify myself as a Mediterranean European or brown like Egyptians, but not white from Russia etc.

    • @greenmachine5600
      @greenmachine5600 Před 3 lety +3

      That makes sense

    • @ZodiakAsHell
      @ZodiakAsHell Před 3 lety +7

      I am Christian Orthodox from Greece and I look as a Scandinavian.
      Personally, I identify myself as a Mediterranean European, definitely white.

    • @mossakis
      @mossakis Před 3 lety +7

      @@ZodiakAsHell I am very darker than you. I look Arab, Egyptian, Moroccan. In school some of my classmates, passed me as a Muslim.

    • @s66s46
      @s66s46 Před 3 lety

      A few meds can look like that but you are more white than black.

    • @s66s46
      @s66s46 Před 3 lety +1

      Btw brown is not a race

  • @meyroc5092
    @meyroc5092 Před 5 lety +223

    Proud of Israelis again! Skin comes in all different colors, it's not either or black/white.
    Jews are Jews no matter their skin color.

    • @Kryptonien99
      @Kryptonien99 Před 5 lety +15

      Jackson Winkleson
      Amen 🙏

    • @russellstone6390
      @russellstone6390 Před 5 lety +5

      Rev. 2:9 👿👿👿👿

    • @Daniel24445
      @Daniel24445 Před 5 lety +3

      That's totally off the wall at least according to Christian bible. "Not all in Israel is of Israel". Israel according to bible was "Jacob"! The original term of Jew was of Tribe of Judah and part of Benjamin who stayed in Jerusalem after the destruction of second temple. Then there was the Macabbee Wars under Hasmonean Dynasty and absorption of Esau-Edom under the Greek name of Idumea. Define "Jew"? A follower of Talmudic Judaism and Halacha religious courts?

    • @marksimons8861
      @marksimons8861 Před 5 lety +1

      @@Y0utubeIsFuckingHomo We have one of those here in the UK. It's called Yarl's Wood.
      According to their website, it is an "immigrant removal centre" for adult women and adult family groups awaiting immigration clearance/ It goes on to say that "Management of Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre was taken over by Serco in 2007". This means it is privatised.
      Ironically, the home page it headed, "Welcome to Yarl’s Wood". I guess whoever wrote that text had a great sense of humour.

    • @Nermin_mira
      @Nermin_mira Před 5 lety +1

      mey roc as you can see most of them are arabs

  • @levyboroda8356
    @levyboroda8356 Před 5 lety +75

    I’m blue da ba dee da bu dai

    • @ettaphil9586
      @ettaphil9586 Před 3 lety +2

      😁😁👍

    • @user-mf2gc6jl2d
      @user-mf2gc6jl2d Před 3 lety +2

      The funny thing there is no white or black humans just pink and light brown and brown guys call them selves white and dark brown people call themselves black and arabs call themselves brown and we are the only ones correct

    • @ettaphil9586
      @ettaphil9586 Před 3 lety

      @@user-mf2gc6jl2d True, but where did this come from?

    • @user-mf2gc6jl2d
      @user-mf2gc6jl2d Před 3 lety

      @@ettaphil9586 america the land of rasicsm cause it is a mix of Europeans taking a single European race can make a civil war and devide the country to continue there racism they sould create a new race which they did a race which combine of all Europeans and so yeah and for the usage of the word white cause white is used mostly to describe good things for example white night or bright etc they called africans black cause of rasicm cause black color and dark is mostly used for bad things so yeah that is it and finally low key the wasps are being rasicst to other Europeans but in secret so the country doesn't get devided wasps are germans and british( anglo saksphon)

  • @mousarabipour5800
    @mousarabipour5800 Před 4 lety +19

    Iranian jews.long love all Iranian❤

  • @giovannamoro8564
    @giovannamoro8564 Před 3 lety +34

    The older man that was interviewed last ,i like him . He's intelligent ,i wish each country would think like he does . Much respect sir .

  • @fusgersnabble224
    @fusgersnabble224 Před 5 lety +10

    Lets settle this - nobody is white but albinos - everyone has a tint of brown.

  • @Pathrissia
    @Pathrissia Před 3 lety +12

    "i think of myself mostly in spiritual terms" that's beautiful and a great answer to the question. Probably the solution to USAs racial focus but just like the interviewer, he doesn't pay attention to the beauty and simplicity of the answer

    • @ef2718
      @ef2718 Před 3 lety

      CGS is Canadian born and raised.

  • @sakshikulkarni1279
    @sakshikulkarni1279 Před 3 lety +11

    Its so nice to see that people don't define each other by the colour of their skin, here in India everyone has brown or dusky skin tone with few exceptions, the society is obsessed with fair or "white" skin. The more fair someone is the more importance they are given

    • @ygzpdygzpd700
      @ygzpdygzpd700 Před rokem

      Is it because historically, the upper classes/castes were fair?

    • @ygzpdygzpd700
      @ygzpdygzpd700 Před rokem

      Yeah, hI was shocked when my Indian friend, so dark he's almost black, wanted to go indoors because he wasn't wearing sunscreen. And it was winter. I sunburn and peel very easily, but it was okay for me. Now I understand. He wasn't afraid of a sunburn, he was afraid of a tan.

    • @rohitadhatrao6877
      @rohitadhatrao6877 Před rokem

      @@ygzpdygzpd700 NOPE, that is al bullshit, the real reason is the british invasion

  • @walterdiaz2003
    @walterdiaz2003 Před 3 lety +6

    These videos are great. You want to know about a country then talk to the people, in the streets, they are the country. Good job!

  • @nbamonstermobile
    @nbamonstermobile Před 5 lety +41

    I look white although I’m from israel, my dad is from Uzbekistan, my mom is from Ukraine but my grandmother is half Korean. It’s a mess

    • @Philoglossos
      @Philoglossos Před 3 lety +1

      Koryo-Saram?

    • @jimbob7924
      @jimbob7924 Před 3 lety +10

      Your still an illegal occupier of Palestinian land

    • @ettaphil9586
      @ettaphil9586 Před 3 lety

      Its a mix

    • @declancharlick5038
      @declancharlick5038 Před 3 lety +14

      @@jimbob7924 Nope, it was given to them

    • @jimbob7924
      @jimbob7924 Před 3 lety +7

      @@declancharlick5038 illegally by the british. Who the fuck is churchill and Balfour to give a country to another set of people to make another country??? Gtfo

  • @dabs1372
    @dabs1372 Před 3 lety +132

    Americans: hey don't y'all discriminate each other as blacks or whites?
    Rest of the world: 👁️👄👁️

    • @oyemate8647
      @oyemate8647 Před 3 lety +1

      @Sihaexactly! Theres that scetch were a guy says that now white supremisists are agreeing most with far left ,,tolerant people’’

    • @felipec.2854
      @felipec.2854 Před 3 lety +1

      All america has the same problem of the USA, but maybe a little bit different

    • @AppleGoodman
      @AppleGoodman Před 3 lety +6

      The US is one of the least racist places in the world tho, and this is coming from a European

    • @dabs1372
      @dabs1372 Před 3 lety +2

      @@AppleGoodman i am European too this is not true. Where u from?

    • @AppleGoodman
      @AppleGoodman Před 3 lety +5

      @@dabs1372 America is very diverse and they have many minority rights movements and stuff like that while Europe rarely fights for these things. Im not saying all European countries are more racist than the US but most are. It also depends what areas we are talking about but generally the US is less racist. I am Mediterranean btw

  • @zakur0hako
    @zakur0hako Před 4 lety +13

    i like how straight questions are. no bullshit

  • @Marge719
    @Marge719 Před 3 lety +28

    They don't even understand the concept, I like that! :)

    • @NoVisionGuy
      @NoVisionGuy Před 3 lety +1

      In American context, White = European
      But in Europe and Middle-east Asia
      There are Mediterranean (Berber, Hispanic, Italic, Levantine, Turkic, Greek, others), Mainland European (Germanic, Scandinavian, Gaelic), Eastern European (Slavic, Caucasian, Persian, Kazakhs, Turks)
      These are only the light skinned listed that could be considered as "white" in North American context.

  • @dobishs
    @dobishs Před 5 lety +79

    The last guy has the best answer.

  • @spongebobsquarepants4137
    @spongebobsquarepants4137 Před 5 lety +19

    This video is hilariously awkward.

  • @amiecooper2539
    @amiecooper2539 Před 3 lety +9

    This is absolutely fascinating. Not to mention fairly confusing.

    • @gsaigo8375
      @gsaigo8375 Před 3 lety

      It's reality, those who insist to concentrate on the differences between people are the ones causing all the fear and confusion

  • @workinonit7508
    @workinonit7508 Před 5 lety +86

    Isarel looks beautiful

    • @rban123
      @rban123 Před 5 lety +7

      It’s very beautiful but they have a shit government.

    • @sionc1372
      @sionc1372 Před 5 lety +10

      @@rban123 aren't all government shitty?

    • @daninoa9650
      @daninoa9650 Před 5 lety +7

      @@rban123 as an Israeli, I agree

    • @patriceoneil7276
      @patriceoneil7276 Před 5 lety +1

      Because it's your motherland you are the true daughter of zion.. facts

    • @jaylikjackson1987
      @jaylikjackson1987 Před 5 lety +4

      @@patriceoneil7276 no, not all black are just a little part of people from etiophia are

  • @nji7772
    @nji7772 Před 5 lety +9

    I am Ash. My dad and his parents were all holocaust survivors. Bratislava has the oldest Jewish community in Europe (since the 11C). I am not ashamed of what I am a mediteranean colour (or brown if you will with olive skin). Never got treated as anything other than what I am. Got called all kinds of derogatory names as a child. Colour is ridiculous. People see you how they choose to and there is nothing that can be done about that.

  • @josipmickovic2572
    @josipmickovic2572 Před 5 lety +7

    I'm in Ireland, from Herzegovina originally, mix of Adriatic sea people, guy at 1:00 said what majority of people are saying in Europe. Been asked quite a lot am I from Israel ( Italian is the second guess even from Italians when they ask me, people in Spain think I'm joking if I speak English ) as well. Northern blue eyed blond haired usually don't consider Mediterranean as European as I've noticed.

    • @urvanhroboatos8044
      @urvanhroboatos8044 Před 5 lety

      Nije realno. Pravi bijelci oni iz Grčke, Italije..... dok su sjevernjaci barbari došli tek nakon što je zapadna civilizacija već bila formirana.

    • @sidimightbe3246
      @sidimightbe3246 Před rokem

      It’s cause you’re Balkan, we’re genetically half middle eastern

  • @Lupeminusthefiasco
    @Lupeminusthefiasco Před 3 lety

    Brilliant question and I find it so relevant today. Thank you!

  • @panthro213
    @panthro213 Před 5 lety +5

    Dear Israeli's, you are Arab not white or Hispanic or anything else. Is a Nigerian a different race from a Ghanaian? Different language and culture perhaps but not different in race. If Israeli's are white then so are Palestinians. A word to the wise is sufficient.

  • @cheekypop
    @cheekypop Před 5 lety +16

    i think the concept of whiteness is quite dated and can easily be chipped away at when you start asking whether jews, armenians, greeks, etc fall under that label. it still makes sense as a colloquial distinction but when talking seriously about race we should be thinking in terms of europeanness rather than whiteness

    • @supahnubz
      @supahnubz Před 3 lety +3

      Obviously people generally mean Caucasians of European ancestry when they say White.

    • @wiltisdabest
      @wiltisdabest Před 2 lety

      @@supahnubz you realize all Greeks are European? Also many Armenians obviously are pure European blood or mostly

    • @sidimightbe3246
      @sidimightbe3246 Před rokem

      Really it should just be Northern Europe cause Serbians look like Turks

    • @user-hu6lr3vr7g
      @user-hu6lr3vr7g Před 7 měsíci

      It means people from Europe so Greeks are white because they are Europeans! Armenians and Israelis are not white unless they have European ancestry.

  • @claybar3998
    @claybar3998 Před 5 lety +56

    The girl at 6:11, when asked if she's heard about the North American concept as being white: "Yes, you mean as an insult?"

    • @ProgressiveConservative
      @ProgressiveConservative Před 5 lety +25

      Clayton Barnes II yeah, crazy even a Moroccan Israeli sees that white people in America are being bullied. Tbh I think every other group understand this except white people themselves lol 😆

    • @daviddufresne3107
      @daviddufresne3107 Před 5 lety +21

      Being white is no longer a good thing in America that's for sure. Maybe if you have an interaction with the police, but that's mostly related to politeness. Still, more whites are shot by the police in the US than any other ethnicity.

    • @briannemorse2464
      @briannemorse2464 Před 4 lety +3

      @@daviddufresne3107 yep for sure and we donr ever riot over it

    • @rebeccasantos1537
      @rebeccasantos1537 Před 4 lety +5

      @David duFresne That is a lie. I live in NY and there is every type of race here. There is Police Brutality towards black people the most and then it’s hispanic. White people are the race less bothered. And that is everywhere in the US. When you go to the south it is more racist in those states. Whenever a caucasian kills a black person “accidentally” they get off easily. But if it’s the other way around the black person will bc in jail for the rest of their life. Not cool at all but that is the Society we live in.

    • @davidweiss9891
      @davidweiss9891 Před 4 lety +7

      @@rebeccasantos1537 i live in NY and you lie

  • @hammie2
    @hammie2 Před 3 lety +1

    This was a truthful video.

  • @KrazeeKrab
    @KrazeeKrab Před 3 lety +20

    what a stupid question
    Imagine if US americans knew that they are literally the only people in the world who classify themselves in terms of black/white
    It's understandable, that's the predominant people of the US, but still, don't apply your terminology on the rest of the world

    • @waynecorbett4119
      @waynecorbett4119 Před 3 lety +1

      That is not right, we in Australia are proud of our white and black heritage

  • @Y0utubeIsFuckingHomo
    @Y0utubeIsFuckingHomo Před 5 lety +25

    Holy shit, I never expected to see this question.

  • @karmicobsession1636
    @karmicobsession1636 Před 5 lety +12

    This is a bad question for the simply fact that the way we think of race in America is very specific to the United States.

  • @gogocelmare7047
    @gogocelmare7047 Před 3 lety +3

    The guy from 7:44 from where he took the privileges ? I want to take mine also, i will be in europe soon

    • @cindyhargett510
      @cindyhargett510 Před 3 lety +1

      The privileges are automatically given.
      Enjoy!

    • @slowmolife4289
      @slowmolife4289 Před 3 lety +1

      Still looking for my privileges, but so far i can't see any. Can you help me?

  • @peonypetal5405
    @peonypetal5405 Před 4 lety +25

    "I think our strength is we know how to find within ourselves both white and black." Simply beautiful. I can't wait for this to be the mainstream thinking of people in the US.

  • @shaniquo3900
    @shaniquo3900 Před 3 lety +9

    Those American terms aren't universal and can't be applied everywhere. I'm from Mexico but all my family comes from Korea. I'm Latin American but Americans seems to get confused when they hear me speaking Spanish

  • @zvi303
    @zvi303 Před 3 lety +5

    All racists consider Jews to be the opposite race of whatever they are.
    Our ancestors described themselves almost two thousand years ago in Israel - in mishna negaim - not black, not white, but in the middle.

    • @shainazion4073
      @shainazion4073 Před rokem

      Jews are the color of boxwood, if you look at boxwood it is wheat colored.

  • @Abo_Abdullah87
    @Abo_Abdullah87 Před 4 lety

    I’m wondering are there still cultural differences between Mizrachi , Ashkenazic and Sephardic
    In terms of marriage or any social tradition.

    • @mosehlewi3081
      @mosehlewi3081 Před 4 lety +1

      Probably not but religious tradition yes

  • @HueyPPLong
    @HueyPPLong Před 5 lety +2

    Really smart people in the comments pointing out that they don't use the color descriptor in their country.
    Y'know it's almost like the point is to get their perspective on something unusual for them....

  • @explosives101
    @explosives101 Před 5 lety +158

    "My fellow White People"

    • @MrMarsMissVenus
      @MrMarsMissVenus Před 3 lety +3

      Finally someone gets the point of this video. Rest of the commenters have no idea.

    • @basharthekindandgentle4346
      @basharthekindandgentle4346 Před 3 lety

      I always refer to them as a race of elites that run the banking cartel and the media.

    • @rightwingreactionary
      @rightwingreactionary Před 3 lety

      To be fair, most of them claimed they're not white. I think the "fellow white people" mentality is more of a Jewish-American thing.

  • @duncefunce1513
    @duncefunce1513 Před 5 lety +6

    Love these videos. Such a simple and inspired idea.

  • @bulldozer313
    @bulldozer313 Před 3 lety +9

    “My great great great grandparents were born here”
    “Where are your great great great grandparents from?”
    “Russia”
    WTF....
    Last time I checked Russia was not where that guy is living..

    • @mukamaseverin7646
      @mukamaseverin7646 Před 3 lety +1

      LOL!

    •  Před 3 lety +1

      he isnt speaking his native language

    • @cve4a1
      @cve4a1 Před 3 lety

      Russia is existing hundreds of years, before the Soviet Union the official name was Russian Empire.

  • @benprishtina153
    @benprishtina153 Před 3 lety

    that background at the end looks like Mars!
    I love your videos, I just started watching them.

  • @joemaro2926
    @joemaro2926 Před 5 lety +5

    0:50 There is a reporter in Japan that investigates the Yakuza, Jake Adelstein - Ashkenazi. He walked into the Saitama police HQ. He was immediately nabbed. They thought he was an Iranian prisoner that had escaped. My Japanese wife thought our rabbi, Carnie Rose was an Iranian too.

    • @joemaro2926
      @joemaro2926 Před 5 lety +1

      @Ian Miles I never said "Goy." What are you talking about?

    • @joemaro2926
      @joemaro2926 Před 5 lety

      @@jaykay415 My apologies.

    • @jaykay415
      @jaykay415 Před 5 lety

      @@joemaro2926 no apology necessary, -just explaining :)

    • @joemaro2926
      @joemaro2926 Před 5 lety

      @@jaykay415 The CZcams feed is spotty. Ashkenazi Dissident Right
      's comments did not show up in the feed, but I did get Ian Mile's comment. I just assumed he was replying to me . . . Be well.

    • @jamessilver6429
      @jamessilver6429 Před 4 lety

      @Eternal Fisherman dont be sad be frum we're all jewish

  • @yalandinya9049
    @yalandinya9049 Před 5 lety +100

    the persian guy is funny. "we are mediterranean". since when is iran mediterranean? hahaha. "we could be italian, spanish". really?

    • @ARE_YOU_SICK_OF_YT_CENSORSHIP
      @ARE_YOU_SICK_OF_YT_CENSORSHIP Před 5 lety +69

      he's right, culturally Israel historically and obviously geographically has belonged to Medditerranian region

    • @tianalevi
      @tianalevi Před 5 lety +47

      Because ethnically he is a Mediterranean person. He descend from Jews native to the levant and to israel that after being expelled from Israel reached ancient Persia and stayed there while adopting the Farsi language and Persian culture. So ethnically he is not Persian and he is mostly Levantine Mediterranean. He might have a little Persian dna if he have had a Persian ancestor that converted to Judaism and married his other ancestors. But he is mostly Mediterranean.

    • @olg06
      @olg06 Před 5 lety +3

      ArapputuAllah CC lol yeah also this guy looks clearly black mixed, he even have a black man voice😂

    • @zahorat
      @zahorat Před 5 lety +4

      the persians near to india not mediterranean

    • @maayan3795
      @maayan3795 Před 5 lety +5

      In Israel most people don't really understand this whole thing with races and white/black etc. That's why they consider their "race" simply as where their parents are from, and they can't really "call" their race other than that country their parents/grandparents are from. That's why you've seen a couple that said that they think they would've been called Hispanic (although they are clearly not hispanic) and that's why this guy said he's middle eastern. In addition, when he said he could be Spanish/Italian etc, he meant that jews and Israelis in general can also be from Spain and Italy.
      Hopefully you understood

  • @kisa4748
    @kisa4748 Před 3 lety +2

    In American paperwork where we must put demographic information, they often ask about our race and we must choose one. Do other countries not really do that?

  • @45818
    @45818 Před 3 lety

    This is beautiful. Shalom.

  • @anafahbamidbar5542
    @anafahbamidbar5542 Před 5 lety +40

    I am glad this was a topic of discussion. The US is exhausting the idea of clumping into large groups without distinguishing anything but the basic layer. Being proud of being Israeli together, should be embraced as a whole - one day we'll succeed and happiness will definitely be experienced, but we have to see we're all family throughout the millennia, no matter no matter how we frustrate one another at times :P
    חג חנוכה שמח! ותודה רבה הסרטונים שלך.

  • @aos1762
    @aos1762 Před 5 lety +8

    People in this region ( I'm from there too) care more about ethnic, religion or classism discrimination

  • @babablap
    @babablap Před 5 lety +4

    The first guy is like Henry Rollins' doppelganger.

  • @noagan3204
    @noagan3204 Před 3 lety +5

    Israel is very diverse in skin colors and cultures since a lot of Israelis came from very different part of the world, so most people don’t really care about skin color as much as cultural differences or religion

  • @cexino
    @cexino Před 5 lety +77

    I am Baige but i personally prefer purple people but dark green people are what makes the world a really terrible place.

  • @andrewjenkins2918
    @andrewjenkins2918 Před 5 lety +75

    Most of them don't look particularly different from other Levantine populations, the Levant not being an entirely homogenous place phenotype wise to begin with.

    • @komfykoala6083
      @komfykoala6083 Před 5 lety +4

      @rr rr Levantines are originally light complected. People from the Gulf nations who are much darker migrated to the area in the 7th century and forward, and now the area is quite heterogenous. Additionally the area was conquered by the British and French and a lot of people from the Caucasus region migrated to the area.

    • @nooraqueen2716
      @nooraqueen2716 Před 4 lety +2

      rr rr The Arabs are not an unified ethnic group, but a massive mixed identity. The only real Arabs are those from the Gulf states, where they came from. Arabs in Levant, Iraq and North Africa are mostly recognized as Arabized people, whom many of its cultures are not the same to Gulf Arabs except the language. Levant and North Africa, however, had a long contact with ancient civilization, being used to have Roman influences. Arabs came from Arabian peninsula etc gulf . before they invaded other lands and intermarried with the people. Their natural skin tone is mostly tanned olive Hair is usually wavy or curly, but not as curly as Northeast Africans. Eye brows are thicker than most Europeans. Eye lashes are longer than Europeans and the lips are thicker. Levant arabs In the other hand are much lighter than Peninsula Arabs . Due to the crucade, many Lebanese and Palestinians carry European ancestry. Their appearance resembles Southern Europeans, with nose and eyes smaller than most Middle Easterners and the lips look more like Europeans.

    • @fgh5858
      @fgh5858 Před 3 lety

      @Cetori_-_Xubi 🙂 wow so nobody does plastic surgery except for lebanese persian does it in the USA korea

    • @nooraqueen2716
      @nooraqueen2716 Před 3 lety

      @Quack The Duck lol no not traced to mesopotamia , Arabs originated from Arabia from thousands of years Iraq later became Arab and today most of them have significant Arabian dna ! And Yes, yes, there were SOME Arabs in the Levant and Mesopotamia pre-Muslim invasion - like literally a handful of tribes, but they were a MINORITY, and it was well-known even back then that they were not originally from the Levant and that they emigrated from the gulf. Moreover, people do not realise that Arabs prefer to marry other Arabs so as to preserve the “purity” of their bloodlines, so mixing with the local population was not as common as people like to think.

    • @MrResearcher122
      @MrResearcher122 Před 3 lety

      @@nooraqueen2716 African DNA is in Arabia and high in Levant, and before Islam, since Palestine is,really, North East Africa, and Arabia, like Italian Peninsula tothe European Continent, a Peninsula of the African Continent.

  • @cuitlamcuautencos8306
    @cuitlamcuautencos8306 Před 4 lety +3

    I've seen white, or light skinned Palestinians, And I've seen white Jewish Israelis. I've also seen dark skinned Palestinians and dark skinned Israelis, and both nationalities in a lightish tanned color with hazle or dark brown eyes.

    • @Qwerty-ey5fi
      @Qwerty-ey5fi Před 4 lety +1

      Many Israeli Arabs (Muslims) and Palestinians look part Black, like Egyptans but Darker than Syrians/Lebanese. I was surprised.

  • @BoardroomBuddha
    @BoardroomBuddha Před 3 lety +12

    Interesting discussion. I would love to see Corey ask Jews in Canada or the USA if they are "white". Most will say "Yes". Ask an Arab living in the USA or Canada and they will definitely say "No." It's about social acceptance and access to power in the USA/Canada. To my deceased grandmother who was an adult in the 1920s, Italians and Germans were also not "white".
    A better question is whether these people consider Jews and Arabs to both be "semetic"...

    • @_AultraGreen_
      @_AultraGreen_ Před 9 měsíci

      well they are but western culture thinks antisemetism is anti jews which is not true, western society spread the message of antisemetism is anti jews but if you search the meaning it is anyone who is against abrahamic religions so islam and judaism, christianity is sub-judaism but wanted to just make judaism easier for people to worship which judaism in its original form is impossible to completely worship as well as islam, you cant follow so many rules and still be alive.

    • @saraleigh5336
      @saraleigh5336 Před 8 měsíci

      Most will not say yes, necessarily. But that is definitely the argument constructed by myth of “settler colonialism.”

    • @Sgr667
      @Sgr667 Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@_AultraGreen_sorry to Burst your bubble dude. The term antisemitic was coined in Germany in the 1800s as Jew hatred. They didn't have a lot of Muslim in Europe at that time so the only "semitic people" they knew at the time were basically the jews

  • @sashagamino2268
    @sashagamino2268 Před 3 lety +14

    I realized something. The guy asking the questions thinks in terms of division. The people answering think in terms of unity - not black or white . They're just Israelis. All Israelis I know and ever have known are thinking in terms of sort of a brothers and sisters and friends kind of thing - just Israelis.
    They don’t think in terms of what country their ancestors came from or their hair and skin or any of those kinds of categories. That’s why a lot of them are sort of confused by his questions. It’s just not a part of their thinking. I've loved the Israelis I've known. They said that sometimes the really older people can be a bit racist but I’ve known a lot of older people - many over the years - and not a one of them has been prejudiced or racist.
    The Israelis I've known have been more idealistic than superficial. They seem to care more about what a person is like on the inside than what they look like or anything else superficial.

    • @StephenRosenbach
      @StephenRosenbach Před 8 měsíci

      Hi, I just would like to clarify, the interviewer (Corey Gil-Shuster) did not make up the question. People from all over and of various national and ethnic backgrounds send him questions. As a Canadian Jew who has lived in Israel for quite a while, and having seen many of his videos, I don't think he comes to these sessions with a fixed idea.

    • @saraleigh5336
      @saraleigh5336 Před 8 měsíci

      Jews are Jews.

  • @ulugbeckkhasanov324
    @ulugbeckkhasanov324 Před 5 lety +3

    Hi Corey Gil-Shuster, your materials are really very interesting and good! Thank you!

  • @4bitmultiplexer
    @4bitmultiplexer Před 3 lety +1

    Good show...

  • @valery2711
    @valery2711 Před 5 lety +1

    English subtitle is already exist .why did yoy write again?

  • @Bartooc
    @Bartooc Před 5 lety +72

    Go to Bronx and ask people if they are black.

    • @Princess.Shay8
      @Princess.Shay8 Před 4 lety +2

      LOL

    • @Jay-jj9gh
      @Jay-jj9gh Před 4 lety +6

      @@oribattash9449 It's an honest question, stop teaching people to be afraid of black people. For someone like you, you'd be surprised on how many great and educated answers you'd get.

    • @yaheladom2440
      @yaheladom2440 Před 4 lety +5

      @@Jay-jj9gh Black people are bad?? Why don't they work? Black people ask money and robbery for drugs.

    • @oribattash9449
      @oribattash9449 Před 4 lety +1

      Omar I don’t said nothing near to that but be real, u think u can go their and ask them if they r black and not getting hit?

    • @Jay-jj9gh
      @Jay-jj9gh Před 4 lety +4

      @@oribattash9449 Yes, if you ask them in a genuine manner ignorant idiot. If you were to ask me I'd implore you on what you meant and hopefully we'd have an enlightening discussion.

  • @trashpanda9615
    @trashpanda9615 Před 4 lety +16

    Ask Jewish people in New York City. I think you may get some really interesting responses

    • @woodulike2know391
      @woodulike2know391 Před 3 lety +1

      At another point history they considered themselves white. Even checked the white box. Until being white isn't convenient anymore. Now they check the other box

    • @benjifurman4771
      @benjifurman4771 Před 2 lety

      @@woodulike2know391 Funnily enough we’ve probably started to consider ourselves MORE white in the more recent times. Most other points in history we we’re very isolated in our Shtetls from the traditional white Europeans. You’ll probably find throughout history Jews considered themselves to be Jews. And didn’t delve much into the idea of race and such. So you are actually wrong with that point. Race and whiteness is a very new Western secular thing. It’s only recently have we Jews started calling a lot of ourselves white. And it’s expected since we’ve become more integrated with the USA in the post modern era. Which is why you have a lot of white guilt and woke virtue signaling coming from Jews. Though I’m not sure I will be able to have the most rational conversation with you. Seeing your other comments you’re probably not very fond of Jews in general. But we will see if that can be put aside.

    • @cybershot7818
      @cybershot7818 Před 2 lety

      @@woodulike2know391 They checked the white box to become citizens. It is funny that you guys already forgot your dark history and racial segregation

    • @mizrahiwithattitude2733
      @mizrahiwithattitude2733 Před rokem +1

      israelis are darker then american jews tho most jews in america have roots in europe while in israel most jews have roots in africa and asia

  • @LemoTetson
    @LemoTetson Před rokem +2

    I’ve always seen Ashkenazi Jews as Euro-Semitic, genetically. They absolutely descend fell the biblical Semitic Hebrews, but European converts definitely married into Ashkenazi communities centuries ago.

  • @Simonet1309
    @Simonet1309 Před 3 lety +34

    When I was younger I never thought of myself in terms of a colour. Now however, in the UK I am constantly asked my ethnic origin: white, black asian etc etc. So, people are now forced into these ‘colour’ identities.

    • @nolongerjuicyboiz4413
      @nolongerjuicyboiz4413 Před 3 lety +5

      I think the UK adopted that from america, which is kinda sad. I hope we never get to the point where instead of calling people british, we'll call them like 'african-british' or 'asain-british'.

    • @ghostil1432
      @ghostil1432 Před 3 lety

      As a person from Israel we don't care about color, a lot of the reason is because we came from different places and at least a portion of the citizens doesn't really care about color. If someone will ask me if I consider myself white because of my 'white' skin I'll just say that doesn't matter

    • @nolongerjuicyboiz4413
      @nolongerjuicyboiz4413 Před 3 lety +1

      @Vladimir Putin No but there's a difference between what nazi germany did, and the cultural marxism of america (which wasn't necessarily invented in america, but is certainly pervasive in america more so than in other english speaking countries, or any other countries for that matter). In nazi germany, you never had jews saying that they were in fact the oppressor and that they were responsible for all the economic hardship of germany, but in america it's largely white people who are making themselves the villain of history, and the oppressor, and they're bringing back a form of marxism - this time though the bourgeoisie and upper class has been replaced by white people, and the oppressed are the ethnic minorities, and the whole of history can be viewed as just a race struggle. Hitler might have been preaching a form of race theory, but what america is popularising is Critical Race Theory. Also, this idea of race theory, or white people/any race if people being a master race far predated hitler. Hitler never invented race theory. That's like the people who day hitler invented anti-semitism. He certainly didn't.

    • @dangercat9188
      @dangercat9188 Před rokem

      @@nolongerjuicyboiz4413 the brits brought that shit over to the US though. British people just like to act like they've never done anything wrong. British people made America what it is today.

    • @dangercat9188
      @dangercat9188 Před rokem

      @777qvex slavery...

  • @TorahisLifeandLight
    @TorahisLifeandLight Před 3 lety +3

    I am a Sephardic Jew...since i was child my family talked about this topic and told us what we were culturally and genetically and i also learned it from University as part of my World history and religious studies. Jews from all North Africa nations and Iraq , Iran , and Afghan are considered white from genetic American Standards. When somebody fills out a job application in America, the ethnicity questions comes up and they are asked if they are from the North Africa they are not Hispanics but considered white but not Germanic white or from Magog lands like Russians countries.
    However, Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal are also considered white, but not "white" from Scandinavian countries or Visogoths or Ostrogoths commonly known as Germanic tribes are a different genetic happlo group but it refers to the region where the cultures originated.
    The Germanic tribes and Magog land whites are "white pales" as the Romans used to call them in 69AD. Jews are middle eastern from the Levant region originally and also Mediterranean melanin type color which is called "olive skin " since they intermarried with Romans and Greeks ( those who did not keep Torah) because it looks like olive oil when tanned under the Sun but also white not under the sun like amber color.
    Another thing, Jews were scattered around the world since 922BCE and after 70AD they exiled to Spain or Iberia peninsula , balkan countries like Macedonia , North Africa and Arabic countries but it doesn't mean they lost their origins, culture or genetic heritage. ..and they were also Jews who intermarried other races for those who did not keep Torah, we called them anusim or (marranos ) conversos. Just because they were persecuted by the white Christians. Those who fully converted into christianity lost their Jewish heritage, culture, and origins. But they are still Jews genetically speaking.

  • @dzulkafleysamad4980
    @dzulkafleysamad4980 Před 3 lety +6

    Everybody look middle eastern to me. End of story. Next question please.

  • @DT-my3jo
    @DT-my3jo Před 3 lety +2

    How can someone goes around the Middle-east asking people if they feel white is beyond me.

  • @TheBlueSkateboard
    @TheBlueSkateboard Před měsícem +1

    I'm half Ashkenazi and half Mizrahi. Growing up in a Mizrahi-dominant elementary school I actually experienced mild discrimination for being Ashkenazi. Then I moved to Canada to a super racist white neighborhood and experienced Islamophobia for years on end because bullies saw me as an Arab.

  • @sicilianupazzu5374
    @sicilianupazzu5374 Před 3 lety +4

    Exactly I'm Sicilian but only ones who call me white is African Americans.
    White Americans and Europeans call me an Arab 😆

  • @carlauclair8748
    @carlauclair8748 Před 4 lety +5

    Dude at the end speaking truth.

  • @Ephiize
    @Ephiize Před 3 lety

    Is the color spectrum for skin is only white or black?

  • @buttnugget1698
    @buttnugget1698 Před 4 lety +1

    You are amazing

  • @lana89001
    @lana89001 Před 5 lety +3

    I mean...being Jewish doesn’t mean that you are a certain color, we all came from different parts of the world so we have different skin colors. Until now I didn’t even understand how much we don’t care about it and don’t identify in that concept. I’m from Georgia-Russia, I have friends from Morocco, Argentina, Uruguay, Italy...
    We are all between white-brown skin color, but we never think of it like in the US. It’s quite weird.

    • @sharonefee1426
      @sharonefee1426 Před 3 lety

      The American most of the time refer Jews as white. Why? no idea.

  • @rookie9353
    @rookie9353 Před 5 lety +18

    I think they confused the skin color with a racial classification. Definitely, but I'm surprised that in Israel they don't care about what skin color you are, like: Just be yourself. Amazing people, I'm not Jewish but my grandparents are from Israel. Algeria and Hungary by the way.

    • @Imayebrook
      @Imayebrook Před 3 lety +2

      dont listen to the media. israel is inclusive and democratic

  • @liki8589
    @liki8589 Před 5 lety

    Can someone explain to mi something!? Why all most of people that been interwiev in this video and other are with arab or african background!? Is there any pure jews?

  • @firecrackerNJ2CA
    @firecrackerNJ2CA Před 3 lety +5

    I still don't get this fascination with race and skin color. Culture and language are more important

  • @sarahha6523
    @sarahha6523 Před 4 lety +11

    Almost all the people in this vid are "mocha" except for the last man :P

    • @lala-ct9ir
      @lala-ct9ir Před 3 lety +2

      Maybe they are tanned. The sun is pretty strong in those parts of the world.

  • @thomaszweig3130
    @thomaszweig3130 Před 5 lety +15

    Most lol and interesting part about this: Moroccan grandmother's used to be racist while their grandson generation doesn't even identify as white.
    Something must have happend

    • @giaxxx5085
      @giaxxx5085 Před 3 lety +3

      You can be racist and not white

  • @sarahnajid2880
    @sarahnajid2880 Před 7 měsíci

    Briliant . Thank you so much!

  • @MJGelfor
    @MJGelfor Před 2 lety +1

    Corey, thank you for showing us American Jews the Israeli people when we cant always afford to go visit again. Its nice, in a warm sort of way.

  • @schurgy16
    @schurgy16 Před 5 lety +74

    Generally, Israeli's seem to be a combination of Middle-Eastern and white. The one who said they look closer to Hispanic people has it really nailed down

    • @screamtoasigh9984
      @screamtoasigh9984 Před 5 lety +4

      There are only four races. (In layman's terms: Black, White, Native, Asian) You're describing ethnicities (Jewish is an ethnicity btw).

    • @Y0utubeIsFuckingHomo
      @Y0utubeIsFuckingHomo Před 5 lety +8

      Hispanics are a mix of white and proto-Asian and some African. I've meet half black and white people who look middle eastern or hispanic. You can't really pin down mixed race people.

    • @Y0utubeIsFuckingHomo
      @Y0utubeIsFuckingHomo Před 5 lety +6

      @@screamtoasigh9984 "Native" is not a real classification. "Native Americans" are actually the Proto-Asian I'm mentioned earlier. The reasons some central and latin Americans have eyes somewhat similar to Asians is because "Native Americans" are the forefathers of today's Asian.

    • @russellstone6390
      @russellstone6390 Před 5 lety

      Rev. 2:9

    • @Kryptonien99
      @Kryptonien99 Před 5 lety +1

      Jackson Winkleson
      Exactly