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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I thought Armenians were considered white

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Depends on just how long the fash fire has been burning. There always needs to be an outgroup that has to burn next.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Depending on how much money they have.