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He literally looks like 70 percent of the North Africans that live in my town. One Algerian dude I know, which Algerians are usually known to be the lightest among north africans resembles him
To add to this topic, I bet u in an alternate reality, if it were brown or black civilization that was dominant, I bet on forums people like Kurds, turk, and levantines would get cock blocked and get told “pass better as euro” and we would be self hating if we posted darker people from our...
The point I’m getting like you mentioned earlier is people have a skewed mentality, even from the Middle East, who think we must look Yemeni/Omani and ssa mixed to be a “proud middle easterners” and we are self haters because alot of north west Asians pass better in south Europe/Caucasus/balkans...
Idk my wife shown me some Kurds with it. One she showed me looked central euro like Slovak/Hungarian or Czech. What I’m saying is it’s not impossible. Plus with alot of west Asians, usually the women will have lighter hair/features than the man
Outside of North African, I can see him pass as peninsular Arab or Egyptian. I feel he shows a bit too much ssa for North Indian imo, while alot of gulf Arabs have similar ssa like features
I sometimes find it funny when they think blonde Turks must be from balkans, when a lot of balkaners aren’t even blonde. A lot of Kurds are blonde too and they usually don’t have Balkan ancestry
The reason people think Kurds are super ethnic outside mena is because especially after 9/11, everyone thinks all of Middle East are people who look like Osama bin Laden or something. Anyone with the label of being Middle East = being super ethnic and brown. Levantines, because we speak Semitic...
this guy does not always portray natives accurately when he visits a country. I saw one where he went to Dubai and 60 percent of the people are either south Asian or European expats.