Is there a particular reason why some Syrians look like the "white people" of the Middle East at first sight? I discussed something like this with a Saudi user on int and he told me that people from Lebanon, Syria and Northern Iran look more like whites compared to other Arab countries.
Assad himself is a man with blue eyes and no Mohammed-style longbeard.
Nord afriac and the middle east used to be a lot whiter in general.
Kayden Phillips
> Iran Not related to Semitic arabs at all. Totally different reason for being pale > Leb and Syria They’re almost the exact same race as Saudis, Jordanians, and Palestinians. They just live in a colder climate so some* of them are pale. I’m a light Leb but I can tan very dark, and I have extremely “arab” features so I don’t come off as white at all. We’re nkrthern Semites, Saudis are southern. But I’ve met really pale Saudis and really dark lebs so. It isn’t exact. We’re more similar to Saudis and Egyptians than we are to Turks. We cluster nowhere near Turks or Persians.
Zachary Lee
>look like the "white people" of the Middle East >look like >of the Middle East
Also there’s this meme science that “arabs” come from southern Saudi Arabia and the rest of us are just arabized. Not true. The oldest mention of Arabs was before Islam, in Jordan and Syria.
Kevin Anderson
Also Assad is not a typical Syrian. He’s an alawi who only married their own type and are extremely genetically isolated like the Druze. Most Syrians and lebs are tanner with dark eyes and big noses
Logan Barnes
They used to be white as were most meds, don't let modern Greek and southern Italian rape babies confuse you. Syria had and still has blondes, however the Arab rape army did come through there so a lot of them are really brown. The Christians and alawites tends to look whiter, but the Sunnis and brown as fuck.
Jonathan Williams
No moron, arabs existed in the Levant before Islam even began. We weren’t racially transformed by Saudi Arabians, we’ve almost been Semitic
Owen Hall
romans believed the germanic tribes were what was left of the asyrians. the whole cheddar man bs says white people came to britain from the middle east.
Luke Clark
What are the Yazidis? All the filthy Arabs went nuts trying trying to rap/abduct Yazidi girls.... It was actually in their recruitment brochures; "you get to fuck Yazidi girls"!! I love how the inferior races admit by their preferences, that they're..... inferior....
They couldn't defend against a spider. This isn't a sand nigger hate post, this is a "women can't do anything except lay there" post.
Elijah Perez
Yezidis are not arabs, they’re a remnant of the Aramaic people that also inhabited the Levant and Mesopotamia. The region was never just one race or people. It’s always been a mix of arabs, arameans, jews, Anatolian etc.
Cameron Miller
wasnt Jesus Aramaic? That's what he spoke right? So Jesus was NOT a Jewish carpenter...
Connor Rivera
This is probably the most scary answer.
The fact that Mohammed's rapehordes destroyed almost every single cultural and ethnical trace of the native populations...
He didnt get the Kurds and the yazidis, BIG mistake...
Xavier Walker
yep
Carson Sullivan
It's been slowly expanding ever since
Anthony Taylor
Well, it's like a continuum. There is no extremely big and abrupt difference between the Europeans and Middle Easterners. Turks look quite white. So do the people of Levant. Also Afganis look quite white and it's not because "soldiers of Alexander Great settled there".
White people used to extend as far as Western CHina (Tocharians).
Seriously, there is no big difference between an Iranian and European. These are quite minor variations, like between an Irishman and Montenegrin. WHat makes European Whites so much different from Maghrebi adn Middle Eastern Whites?
Anthony Martin
>pic is fake propaganda lol Is this whole church hall full of these Christians fake propaganda too? Coping retard.
Indo-Aryan phenotype. Whites have existed and thrived across the globe, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, India, Asia, etc. You can still see some remnants and phenotype traits in these countries
Jace Garcia
You're the reason no one takes us seriously. Ropes are 5 bucks at Canadian Tire.
M*hammedan spotted. I've had family friends I've known since I was a boy who are Lebanese and Syrian Christians who fled when your guys had your category 5 muzzi chimpout back in the day. They were all rather pale and hazel/green eyed with brownish/reddish hair. Spoke French too.
Read Taleb's analysis of the Lebanese/Syriac phenotype as it presents through history and the complete sublimation of this phenotype to more foreign types as history progressed. Also, there were not fucking "Arabs" in the Levant pre-Islamic conquests. Pic related, woodcutting from descriptions of the OG shitposter Lucian.
Most people here look pretty Arab. I’d say about 25% of Lebanese people have White features (ie blue/green eyes, etc...).
Jack Phillips
So what does Taleb say about the Lebanese/Syriac phenotype? That the invading Arabs darkened it?
By the way, the current Syrians look quite white to me, don't you think? Also North Africans don't look totally non-white. Why do people think that Middle Easterners and North Africans are "brown"? In reality it is only Yemenis and Saudi Arabs that are brown.
Cameron Watson
I'm sorry, but why so many shitposters are Canadians? You know it's not for a meme that leafposters get e-bullied so much on pol
Don’t know, but everyone should go to Beirut - the women are beautiful, non or relaxed Muslim, innocent and they’re all redpilled on their friends to the south....
Ethan Sanders
whites have gone around the world user. in fact no studies and research has shown that white people made it to american bfore the 'native americans' did. and on top of that the injuns are native south americans. ever wonder why some injun and white kids look latina? there you go. cortez bleaching mexico.
Mexico was colonized in the last 500 years. Levantines have always looked this way, it has nothing to do with Europeans. It’s literally in the Mediterranean. Why are people shocked by this?
Matthew King
I really want to visit Beirut. I'm of Palestinian descent and I hope that when the Jews are kicked out that I can have a second home over there and travel throughout Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iraq often and in relative safety.
The divide is because of Islam, abruptly cutting the definition of whiteness at the Bosphorus doesn't make much sense. I'm not saying Syrians are Nordic, but many of them are white, just like many Greeks or Bulgarians are not.
Aiden Roberts
Let them in!
Andrew Wright
They descended from Europeans during the crusades.
Syrians are definitely not Arabs. Put a Syrian next to a Yemeni or a Saudi and the difference is obvious. Many of them look a lot closer to Italians, so high Roman admixture could be the reason.
I've noticed a lot of them have a certain "Biblical era" look that's hard to explain. Maybe they're the descendents of the original Jews / Canaanites (Paul/Saul was a Syrian Jew). Which might explain why the Khazars in Israel want them gone.
Luis Powell
I'd happily include this Syrian into the white genepool.
There was no Arabs in Levant, there were mix of Semite (Aramic, Assyrian, Jew, Iranic, Greek, etc) in the region. Arabs, which are a group of Semites, came with Muslim conquest and forced their language and identity on the inhabitants of Levant.
Gavin Johnson
Jesus was white?
Hunter Phillips
fake ! dirty walls and electric lights with danglely wires would be the first clue.Image search would be another .
Adrian Taylor
>Image search would be another . Image search shows that they’re Assyrians dumbass.
I’m a Christian Lebanese you fucking donkey. Don’t lecture me on my people. I’m aware there are light, Euro passing levantines, I’m not one of them. My grandmother is darker but has red hair (from northern Syria). The Middle East is full of many phenotypes. The sunni Muslim PM of Lebanon is like 3 shades whiter than our Christian president.
Cooper Reyes
There are a lot of light Saudis. North Africans are not Arabs racially so they can vary between looking Med and looking like berbers.
William Evans
Thank you. And of course nobody replies to the actual guy with a Lebanese flag. Geagea is a Christian he looks almost saudi compared to Hariri honestly. Nobody cares
Charles Hill
Are you catholic/orthodox yourself? Either way much love to my Falastin brothers. Go visit Lebanon is safer than France lmao
Logan Green
No. The oldest written Arabic inscription is found in Jordan, not Saudi Arabia. The first arabs ever described were pre-Islamic Syrians. They were not bedouins. The og arabs were southern Levantine Semites, traveling merchants. Not Bedouins from Yemen. Genetics and history show that this Yemen theory is nonsense. Saudis literally cluster closer to Syrians than Yemenis who are on their southern border. Before Islam, Arabic wasn’t as common and the Levant was a mix of Aramaic, Greek, and Arabic speakers. The original Saudi script doesn’t even look like Arabic
David Torres
why are some Iranians so pale?
Camden Brooks
They’re mixed with people from the Caucuses some of them. Others are just Persians who live in the colder areas of Iran. On average though Iranians are a bit darker than most Arabs, not including south Arabians like yemenites and Omanis. Iranians are indo-aryan, they have nothing to do with Semitic atahs. Iranians could pass as northern Indiana and Pakistanis, that’s essentially what they are.
Ayden Walker
Semitic arabs*
Chase Jackson
>tfw no qt syrian gf to defend your country with
Nicholas Cook
2nd and 3rd from the right are cuties
Xavier Mitchell
Middle is a qt
James Rivera
I worked with two Lebanese people in Canada and they were Christian and as white as me but they had Hazel eyes.
John Davis
>pretty girls with clean uniforms meme I support Assad but come on.
Nicholas Cooper
Irano-afghan looks more white than this, Syrians are far from being "white people of the middle east", Syrian phenotype are based on arabids,armenoid and assyroid, totally distant from "white phenotype".
Gabriel Price
look where alexander the great conquered and look at what areas the roman empire included and look where the crusades went there's your answer
Carter Gomez
>Assad himself is a man with blue eyes Some jews have also blue eyes It doesn't mean much
Many syrians are kurdish and many syrians stole genes from yezidis
Exactly. All North Africa would be Christian, speaking a romance Language and white.
Justin Phillips
Yeah, nice Syrian qts, but who gives a fuck about Syria. My wife used to be “friends” with a Syrian family, and they were just your typical bunch of Arab goblins; “white” was the furtherest thing from my mind whenever I had to escort my wife to their shitty enclave.
Joshua Cox
That's a fairly normal distribution south of Belgium.