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Yeah, definitely white: https://www.google.com/search?q=vinay+hiremath&btnG=Search&u...
Crazy how that was not that long ago in historical terms.
But he was Sikh (Indian Indian), and arguing his proto-Indo-European ancestry qualified him. He was ‘acquitted’ of being ‘white’, and case thrown out. Really interesting case, actually.
Some pretty nasty stuff in there from the plaintiff about his revulsion too and not wanting to marry the ‘lower castes’ (and some argument regarding Mongoloids) to help quantify him as ‘white’ in case you get too sympathetic.
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Bhagat_Sing...]
OP found himself alone rather fast and without truly realizing it was happening
He’ll probably get over it at some point, will find a group to belong to and redefine his identity along the way
Neither situation is intrinsically better or worse, just different and subjective to each one of you