Funny because I thought about South Africa when I was thinking to myself where in the world but the USA do people identify their culture based on skin tone. With SA there is a clear distinction between the two people, I don't think that's necessarily the same thing as in that case it very specifically identifies the color of ones skin as that it was separates the two people clearly.
I don't know if I would say that because Europeans don't call themselves white they call themselves whatever their culture is, I think "white" simply means people in western countries mainly the USA who are of multiple mixed cultures so a new identity was born out of it. Keep in mind the Irish, Italians and whoever else getting off the boats at ellis island weren't considering white then and they weren't accepted by those who were already here, Christopher Columbus didn't call himself white and the pilgrims didn't call themselves white. It wasn't until they mixed their cultures with the other cultures where now they are called white, that isn't a negative in any way everyone should be proud of who they are and "white" people built our civilization. The whole claiming of other cultures as "white" just because it would be nice to be affiliated with them doesn't make sense to me, those cultures themselves do not call themselves "white" and never have all throughout history. I don't mean this specifically to say to you but just in general be who you are and be proud of who you are, why go to other cultures looking for an identity all that does is make your identity less important.
In this context kinda like someone named "fuentes" claiming to be a roman just to win a dumb argument or someone saying the mullahs are white just because at the current moment you want to align with them and give them favor, that makes identifying as "white" kinda cheap doesn't it? Your cultural identity shouldn't be something cheap to toss around at whatever circumstance suits it.
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