I’m definitely no experts but I believe the original Jews had the same skin tone as people around Egypt and Palestine, so Jesus would have looked like them (brown skin, black hair). I think the Palestinian people are Semites. Again don’t take this as gospel because I’m just repeating what I read somewhere.
I have an Egyptian coworker (immigration laws, yay) and I’d not call his skin color brown (as in “brown bear” brown). More like a rather well tanned local person. I’d have a hard time calling him non-white, unless in comparison with an Irish person or something…
Yeah, the whole brown/Caucasian thing is weird because some southern Europeans like Spanish/Italians can be just as dark brown as some people who are acknowledged as brown or black (not white/Caucasian, anyway). I think the whole thing is really - are you/your ancestors from a country we’d look down on? So anyone in Europe is Caucasian because they aren’t looked down on. Yay for racism and xenophobia I guess.
I’m definitely no experts but I believe the original Jews had the same skin tone as people around Egypt and Palestine, so Jesus would have looked like them (brown skin, black hair). I think the Palestinian people are Semites. Again don’t take this as gospel because I’m just repeating what I read somewhere.
I have an Egyptian coworker (immigration laws, yay) and I’d not call his skin color brown (as in “brown bear” brown). More like a rather well tanned local person. I’d have a hard time calling him non-white, unless in comparison with an Irish person or something…
Yeah, the whole brown/Caucasian thing is weird because some southern Europeans like Spanish/Italians can be just as dark brown as some people who are acknowledged as brown or black (not white/Caucasian, anyway). I think the whole thing is really - are you/your ancestors from a country we’d look down on? So anyone in Europe is Caucasian because they aren’t looked down on. Yay for racism and xenophobia I guess.