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Day: May 16, 2016

Are Middle Easterners considered to be White by Greeks?

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Posted in categories: Culture, Modern Greek

Everyone here has spoken well on the topic. Greeks have a keen sense of Other, and skin colour can factor into that. As Dimitra Triantafyllidou says, we have a history of dismissing Gypsies (like much of Europe); and there’s a lot of anti-Pakistani feeling in downtown Athens. But then again, there was a lot of […]