honestly there should be a blonde race and a brunette race, it would just make far more sense and be far less eurocentric

the way things are under mayoism, an Italian guy (who often looks indistinguishable from half the population of the Middle East, and is literally 80%+ Middle Eastern going by neolithic ancestry) is considered “white” simply because he is of a population geographically in Europe, and then by proxy all those Middle Eastern people that he resembles are also considered “white” which is fucking stupid because now you can have two different races born to the same Lebanese couple simply because one sibling inherited some of the darker skin genes. (Even further ironic because Middle Easterners have basically zero neolithic European ancestry, which is in stark contrast to the reverse situation)

eurocentrism is when natural skin color variation is racialized but eye and hair color variation are not (because the latter two occur frequently in europeans but the former doesn’t)

worse are the useful idiots who don’t understand this simple concept and larp as europeans because they have like 2 different SNPs even though they’re 100% Punjabi or Lebanese or etc.

This is very essentialist, but so are the people who find your (valid) cultural ideas of ethnicity to be “so foreign”, and I’m just saying that they’re not even being consistently essentialist.