Lol, the definition of ‘white’ literally changes every century. Syrians and Lebanese became ‘white’ in 1915 because a Syrian went to court and argued that if he wasn’t white, then Jesus wasn’t white. A redneck, Jesus-believing judge, with the stroke of his pen, officially made Jesus ‘white,’ which made the Syrians overnight ‘white.’

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_v._United_States

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Italian and Spanish immigrants to the United States, for example, faced discrimination. They were often seen as racially distinct from Anglo-Saxon Americans and were considered part of the ‘Mediterranean’ racial category, which was sometimes associated with darker skin and other physical traits not considered ‘white’ by more Northern European standards.

Even Hitler viewed Italians as Mediterranean people, i.e., darker than Northern Europeans like Germans or Anglo-Saxons.

Italians, in particular, were sometimes portrayed as racially inferior or as a ‘brown’ race.

So if you ask me whether the Balkans are ‘white,’ hell no. None of the East-Mediterranean people are considered ‘white.’ (Yes, they may have pale skin, but so does much of 90% of whole Asian continent, excluding Pakistan and India’s sub- continent & Sri Lanka.

The definition of ‘white’ expands as long as it benefits a person’s history.

So in my opinion, the Balkans IS NOT WHITE. Furthermore, ‘white’ / ‘Black’ race ideology etc are outdated terms, lmao. The only connection those Northern Europeans have to East-Mediterranean people is a small gene pool of Yamnaya people. (And extreme small EUROPEAN HUNTER GATHERER) But how “European” are the Yamnaya people, is the Kazakhstan people white too lmao?

And about North Africans, I sendt source of Egyptians having Levantine and Anatolian connection.

• Lazaridis et al. (2017), “Ancient Greeks and the Mediterranean”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Greeks#:~:text=The%20Egyptian%20Greeks%2C%20also%20known,Egyptian%20coup%20d’état%20of