Comment by Amezarak

There are plenty of Iranians, Berbers, Palestinians, Turks, and Arabs that, if they were walking down the street in NYC dressed in jeans and a tshirt, would be recognized only as "white." I'm not sure on what basis you excluded them.

For example: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/2018_Teh... (Iranian)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Turkish_... (Turkish)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Naderspe... (Nader was the son of Lebanese immigrants)

Westerners frequently misunderstand this but there are a lot of "white" ethnic groups in the Middle East and North Africa; the "brown" people there are usually due to the historic contact southern Arabia had with Sub-Saharan Africa and later invasions from the east. It’s a very diverse area of the world.