<p>I’m from a Middle Eastern country, but I’m not white. At least, I don’t think I am. What should I do? Just go with white and Middle Eastern? </p>
<p>I’m not from an Arab country, but it’s definitely the Middle East. </p>
<p>At least, my parents are from a Middle Eastern country. I was born here.</p>
<p>Middle Eastern is a subset of Caucasian on the CommonApp. </p>
<p>I’m part Turkish, and that’s what I’m doing. I don’t agree with the traditional lumping of Europeans and Middle Easterners together either, but at least this allows you to say specifically that you’re Middle Eastern. </p>
<p>It is weird, but for the US government, no matter how brown you really are, they consider you white.</p>
<p>US census bureau standards: <<…people of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, all Arab Gulf states, Yemen, Oman, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Morocco are White Caucasians >></p>
<p>Also: <<the us="" census="" bureau="" does="" not="" recognize="" any="" racial="" difference="" between="" indians="" (from="" india),="" thais,="" indonesians,="" chinese,="" and="" ainu="" of="" japan="">></the></p>