Post by Hypso The Musky Rat-Kangaroo on Mar 30, 2018 15:16:18 GMT -4
Most Middle Easterners aren't that dark and that's true, but something else that a lot of deluded anthro users do (such as Eliases type), is they like to overexagerate the "lightness" of certain groups. The average northern middle easterners natural skin color is a brunet tone while the southern is usually olive. Depigmention can occur every now and then and it doesn't have to do with any "admixture". Jimmy durmaz and others that look similar to him are a good example of what a typical northern Middle Eastern looks like. When it comes to people who generally think of MENAs as "brown" probably has to with either:
a. The media generally shows protests of certain areas.
b. Pakistanis are usually thought up as the "middle eastern" group because they are the most common "Muslim" group in America.
c. Since most middle eastern countries aren't doing very well economically today, they like to group them with other unfortunate countries and these countries happen to have "dark skin".
d. Because the desert environment is usually associated with heat and therefore darkness.
When it comes to southern euros. South west euros (French, northern Italians and Iberians) are usually distinguishable from northern MENAs. South Eastern euros (Greeks and southern Italians) from what I've seen have a phenotype that is inbetween south west euros and Northen MENAs. A good comparison to see this is Jimmy Durmaz (northern MENA) vs Georgios Samaras (south east euro) vs Claudio Marchisio (south west euro).
Actually, there is a guy from France I work with, he is of Middle Eastern descent, and he said that French people would probably mistaken me for Middle Eastern and give me a hard time over it. I have been to France, though, admittedly before the modern Muslim panic of today, and I got more of a hard time because I am Canadian... they don't like Canadians over there because they think we mangle the French language. Of course, Canadians will counter that French-speaking Canadians are the ones who speak real French, while in France, the language was bastardized by the politically-charged language academies established after the French Revolution, and is more comparable to Newspeak in George Orwell's 1984. Yeah, that is another aspect of discrimination in "white" communities, dialect. The language academies in France served the purpose of uniforming the French language to eliminate class distinctions. French spoken in Canada maintains class distinctions. It's funny when you hear French-speaking politicians trying to speak a more "common" French while campaigning rather than with their natural upper class accents, although the last guy who did that got clobbered in an election big time, but he had a weird accent because he was a rich Canadian guy who lived in France for much of his life.
I once had a person from France say I didn't sound Canadian and he meant that as a compliment, said it in a way to hint that I "sounded intelligent" lol. I was not impressed. But my accent in French is closer to that of French-speaking Americans, actually, since there are more of my specific ethnic group in the US than Canada, and it descends from an old dialect spoken in Southern France, while standard Canadian French descends from old dialects spoken in Northern France.
You know that's kind of funny about that country considering the native population is very heterogeneous. Is there some type of Germanic privilege there? I presume this because I hear about a lot of "discrimination" against North Africans that go on there, but some of the North Africans aren't very distinguishable from southern euro looking folk. My uncle is actually a professor there, he can easily pass is any southern euro country, he's also very fluent in the language, and when you hear him speak you will hardly think he was foreigner. For your case since your predominantly French, yet you would still face discrimination in your own ancestor country sounds strange.