In the United States , a person who has ancestors from Uzbekistan is considered white .
White : A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe , the Middle East ( i.e . West/Southwest Asia including Arabs , Assyrians , Jews , Kurds , Persians and Turks ) , North Africa ( i.e . Algeria , Egypt , Libya , Morocco and Tunisia ) and Central Asia ( i.e . Afghanistan , Kyrgyzstan , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan ) . *