Jesus may not even have been necessarily brown-skinned despite being a Galilean Jew, anyway. He lived before Rome deported the Jews from Judea and long before the Arabs swept into the Levant, so there's a decent chance that he (and indeed other Jews at the time) would have physically had more in common with the other Aramaic-speaking Middle Easterners of the time.
Now since high school I've been friends with an Assyrian girl from northern Iraq, and she doesn't exactly look like the stereotypical Arab, heck she's paler than most white people I know. Obviously she isn't representative of every single Syriac out there, nor does this mean Jesus too must be pale as driven snow, but I'd buy that he was long before I'd buy that he looked like a Nubian as the first picture in the linked article suggests.
One of my neighbors is Egyptian and he is paler then I am, which is funny cause I am white and he is not, using leftist logic. I expect that he is not representative of Egyptians either, he is even some form of Christian.
A Coptic Christian, if I had to guess? They're what's left of the natives of Egypt, going back to Biblical times and beyond to Narmer, and still standing despite mounting persecution from Egypt's Arab Muslim majority (most recently Obama's favorites in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood). Suffice to say, they don't look anything like the kangz think they do. (See, for example, the outrage that crowd had when Rami Malek was cast as an Egyptian character some years back)
One of my previous bosses was Coptic, and he was pretty proud of his heritage - referred to his people as 'the true sons and daughters of the Pharaohs' & all that. He also had nuclear-hot takes about Islamic Arabs, to put it mildly.
One of my previous bosses was Coptic, and he was pretty proud of his heritage - referred to his people as 'the true sons and daughters of the Pharaohs' & all that. He also had nuclear-hot takes about Islamic Arabs, to put it mildly.
As a gross generalization, Middle Eastern Catholics (Maronites, etc.) tend to be somewhat less based than members of Orthodox Churches (like the Copts). Every single time I see hair-raising regressivism from a Middle Eastern Christian, who really should know better, it's always a Catholic.
Maybe it's a generational thing? Of the Lebanese Maronites I've ever talked to, the older ones tend to still be fans of the Phalange and Lebanese Forces, or at least to believe that everything would be better if the Christian faction had won the Lebanese Civil War (and that they would have if not for those damn meddling Syrians and Iranians).
It's the younger ones who grew up here that are much more likely to have become enmeshed in intersectionality and the culture of the modern West, with all that that entails, at least as far as I can tell.
My cousin married into a Coptic family (very nice, and they knew each other since we were all in diapers, one of those childhood romances that worked), and while they're quite dark-skinned, they're definitely not "black".
Some form of Christian? 5-10% of the Egyptian population is Christian, and the Coptic Orthodox Church is one of the oldest Christian churches in the world.
But if he is lighter than you are, that is quite uncommon for Egyptians, as they tend to be somewhat dark by Middle Eastern standards, compared to say Syrians or Lebanese.
northern Lebanese mountain men are light skinned blondes with blue eyes but with Arab features: almond shaped eyes, big noses, bushy eyebrows, thick hair, etc.
Jesus may not even have been necessarily brown-skinned despite being a Galilean Jew, anyway. He lived before Rome deported the Jews from Judea and long before the Arabs swept into the Levant, so there's a decent chance that he (and indeed other Jews at the time) would have physically had more in common with the other Aramaic-speaking Middle Easterners of the time.
Now since high school I've been friends with an Assyrian girl from northern Iraq, and she doesn't exactly look like the stereotypical Arab, heck she's paler than most white people I know. Obviously she isn't representative of every single Syriac out there, nor does this mean Jesus too must be pale as driven snow, but I'd buy that he was long before I'd buy that he looked like a Nubian as the first picture in the linked article suggests.
One of my neighbors is Egyptian and he is paler then I am, which is funny cause I am white and he is not, using leftist logic. I expect that he is not representative of Egyptians either, he is even some form of Christian.
A Coptic Christian, if I had to guess? They're what's left of the natives of Egypt, going back to Biblical times and beyond to Narmer, and still standing despite mounting persecution from Egypt's Arab Muslim majority (most recently Obama's favorites in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood). Suffice to say, they don't look anything like the kangz think they do. (See, for example, the outrage that crowd had when Rami Malek was cast as an Egyptian character some years back)
One of my previous bosses was Coptic, and he was pretty proud of his heritage - referred to his people as 'the true sons and daughters of the Pharaohs' & all that. He also had nuclear-hot takes about Islamic Arabs, to put it mildly.
As a gross generalization, Middle Eastern Catholics (Maronites, etc.) tend to be somewhat less based than members of Orthodox Churches (like the Copts). Every single time I see hair-raising regressivism from a Middle Eastern Christian, who really should know better, it's always a Catholic.
Maybe it's a generational thing? Of the Lebanese Maronites I've ever talked to, the older ones tend to still be fans of the Phalange and Lebanese Forces, or at least to believe that everything would be better if the Christian faction had won the Lebanese Civil War (and that they would have if not for those damn meddling Syrians and Iranians).
It's the younger ones who grew up here that are much more likely to have become enmeshed in intersectionality and the culture of the modern West, with all that that entails, at least as far as I can tell.
My cousin married into a Coptic family (very nice, and they knew each other since we were all in diapers, one of those childhood romances that worked), and while they're quite dark-skinned, they're definitely not "black".
Some form of Christian? 5-10% of the Egyptian population is Christian, and the Coptic Orthodox Church is one of the oldest Christian churches in the world.
But if he is lighter than you are, that is quite uncommon for Egyptians, as they tend to be somewhat dark by Middle Eastern standards, compared to say Syrians or Lebanese.
I assume he is mixed race, his mom I think is actually Caucasian. I did not know there were so many Christians in Egypt.
There used to be a lot of coptic Christians, they somehow keep disappearing from muslim majority countries
northern Lebanese mountain men are light skinned blondes with blue eyes but with Arab features: almond shaped eyes, big noses, bushy eyebrows, thick hair, etc.