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.
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.
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.
I thought Armenians were considered white
Depends on just how long the fash fire has been burning. There always needs to be an outgroup that has to burn next.
Depending on how much money they have.
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 the early 1900s in the US:
I think Armenians are generally seen as white in anglo countries, but it’s not a stable category.