andysixx said:
I've seen various dna tests of sicilians and other south italians on youtube and they almost always have some amount of middle east genes which can be as high as 30 percent. Based on this I wouldn't say they're white, not generally anyway.
Well some middle easterners are quite literally Caucasian. It’s mostly far southern and eastern middle easterners (namely arabs, and turks) that aren’t as white as say those closer to Georgia, or other Caucasus regions. so it’s hard to say with something as vague as ‘middle eastern’. It’s like saying I’m white, which is true but I’ve got a lot of different kinds of ‘white’ ethnicity making up the whole (like Celtic, Nordic, Germanic, Anglo ancestry etc).