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Or Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra.

Cleopatra was by ancestry mostly Greek. So I don’t get what you mean.

Most of her subjects weren’t quite “black” either.

Sorry for this interjection, but I hate wrong corrections, especially when they give up cute chains of thought like “queen of (hellenistic, that’s my own addition) Egypt -> Egypt’s in the African continent -> black”.

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Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yeah, the thing a lot of people seem to miss is just how major of a geographic barrier the Sahara is. As a consequence, northern Africans weren’t generally very black for most of history.

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state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I never said she should’ve been black. But some milktoast British lady is still several shades lighter than any Egyptian in history.

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- rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Greek and ME people sometimes look very light. And face powders too exist.
  
  So I wouldn’t say there’s anything too weird with her appearance. I suppose portrayal of Americans in North Korean war films is weirder.
  
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