**XF: How Italians, Greeks, and Irish became "white"**


> The first time I was in Spain, I'm like, 'How did all these Mexicans get to Spain?' 
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> And I realized that I had been ideologically misled by the mid-20th-century ideal. Mediterranean people are Europeans, but they're not white in the sense that English Americans mean white. 
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> And in America, the Italians, the Greeks, and the Irish really didn't become white until around World War II. It was a different thing. You were some other thing. Even the Germans were called the Pennsylvania Dutch as a polite way not to be identified as German, and this is before World War I. This is colonial-times Pennsylvania Dutch, because the Germans were considered like Hungarians. 
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> The English concept was that the French were Latins and the Germans were Huns. That made the proximity more of a distance, and whiteness was reserved for the English-descended, Welsh, Scottish, and English.


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