Basically, White people can be Italian, yes, but Italian people can't really be White.

...While outside of the US, it's almost exclusively used as a skin tone indicator. The US melting pot definition is loosely used in some cultures (specifically Australian and British) but it's not really given the same weight it has here.

culture outside of White in the US. So while the Northeast might have a lot of Italian background, they're not really going to be considered White unless they celebrate it. As an easy example: would you consider the Italians in like, the Godfather, to be Italian, or White? *Most* would say Italian.

a window where *Mexicans* were considered white(legally. iirc this was as recent as the 70s? Not 100%), and East Asians have vacillated (Mostly Chinese & Japanese) between being "White" and not. In practice, in the States, being White mostly means not belonging to any clearly identifiable

OOT already responded but as an addendum to all of that: Whiteness in the US is different from Whiteness outside of it. Within the States, being White is explicitly a function of melting pot politics (for better or worse) and has (surprisingly) little to do with skin tone. There was actually...

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