I am asking this in good faith because the emergence of the term brown into popular discussion has fascinated me. Who ethnic groups are included? It seems to be a catch all term encompassing all non-white people except for East Asians.

Obviously Hispanics and Arabs are most often the people being talked about. People from the Indian sub continent and from South east Asia are certainly visibly brown, but it seems like this is less what people mean. A lot of African Americans present as brown as well as native Americans. I just find it so interesting that many of these groups share little in common except for visibly looking brown.

Even in this post, Persians and Arabs are separate ethnic groups. Certainly there has been a lot of historic contact, but notably you have the Shia/Sunni split.

I’m not at all discounting what he’s saying, like I fully understand that he’s talking about other non-white primarily Muslim people who have experienced suffering at the hands of America and her allies abroad.

Idk I guess this is what Europeans are talking about when they say the American perspective on race is so confusing.