• Gorillatactics [none/use name]
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    2 months ago

    This person claimed to be white passing for being Armenian. Rephrasing, this person claimed to be passing for Caucasian because she was from the actual caucus.

    • Hexboare [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      I really wouldn't use very old racist typologies. If you were, you'd say she was of the Armenoid sub-race.

      Some Nazi thoughts on the "armenoid" sub-race

      In his works, Hans F.K. Günther portrayed the Jewish people as a specifically non-European racial mixture comprising Armenoid, Semitic, and Negroid elements.

      The German physical anthropologist Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt characterized the Jews as a racial mixture that is primarily of the Armenoid type.

      According to Croatian fascist Ustaše ideologists, only 5% of Croats, but 35% of Serbs were of the Armenoid race.

      They described the race as being "characterized by a dark complexion and a personality prone to trickery, fawning and cheating".

      In the early 1900s in the US:

      Armenians were also vilified for being stereotypically thievish and dishonest. Adults and children alike regularly faced racial invectives such as “dirty black Armenian,” “low-class Jew,” and – most commonly – “Fresno Indian.”

      I think Armenians are generally seen as white in anglo countries, but it's not a stable category.