Victoria had a bit of a lilt to her voice (rather than a full-fledged accent) that was slightly Arabic-sounding. And her last name, to me, could be interpreted many different ways depending on the baseline from which someone is judging other people's surnames.

The whole concept of "passing" is murky. A Person of Color who "passes" for White will be told that their ability to pass is something that they have no more control over than a White person has over their very pale complexion. And, yes, every so often, you have an isolated incident such as Rachel Dolezal. But people from Latino, Middle Eastern, Arabic, and even some Asian or Indigenous backgrounds often fall into a "grey area" where darker-skinned people tell them they're "basically White" but lighter-skinned people tell them they're "too brown [or tan, or olive] to be White."

So whose subjective opinion receives deference?