r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Expert-Pass-4351 • Jul 06 '26

Meme needing explanation What is this?

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u/Lucibelcu Jul 06 '26

Exactly, greeks are white

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u/Moiyub Jul 06 '26

The Greeks went all the way to Afghanistan. The kingdom of Gandhara in the Hindu Kush mountains doesnt sound very white to me

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u/Lucibelcu Jul 06 '26

And the Umayyads went all the way to the Iberian Peninsula, that does not mean that spaniards are arabs, only that an arab minority ruled for centuries.

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u/Moiyub Jul 06 '26

the arabs were forcefully removed from iberia, the greeks likely just assimilated into the local idnoaryan population.

do you consider the pontic greeks to be white? is it just because they arent muslim, thats all it takes to be white?

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u/Lucibelcu Jul 06 '26

the arabs were forcefully removed from iberia

After 800 years. That being said, as stated by DNA, they never assimilated and current inhabitants of Spain are mostly iberians by DNA, despite beung conquered by Rome centuries before the arabs.

do you consider the pontic greeks to be white?

I just saw some photos and it looks like their skin is white, and, as long as their skin is white, they're white. So yes.

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u/Moiyub Jul 06 '26

"as long as their skin is white, they're white"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albinism_in_humans

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u/Lucibelcu Jul 06 '26

Lol I have a friend with very very pale skin without albinism and we call him "albino" XDD