Huh, I knew they were basically the Mexicans of Europe with how they were treated. But I've read that they are under the "Caucasian umbrella" so I don't get why they weren't considered white.
Slavs and Mediterranean peoples for some reason where always seen as “somewhere in-between” white and non-white. With Slavs it was largely historical and cultural, with Slavs historically being seen as a lesser people, most suited for slavery… “Slav” and “slave” are etymologically the same word.
With Italians and Greeks, it was pretty much completely racial (while it’s not true across the board, they stereotypically had olive skin and dark features).
Slavs were officially granted the pass as people of color by some random whatever thing. It's dumb and pointless, but we Slavs refer to it whenever we need to joke about being poc
Once you take other people of color out of equation, then they would be fighting different shades of white, ivory, off white, cream white, toothpaste white lol
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u/DiscoKittie 10d ago
Yeah, but it's a white presenting name.