What Race are People from the Middle East and North Africa?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- What race are people from the Middle East and North Africa? Today, I will take a look at many of the different groups that compose the greater Middle East region, and how truly diverse and unique the area is.
Please do not make any racist comments in the comment section. Thank you.
I'm going to talk about the history of many of the groups of people that make up the Middle East, as well as their genetics, DNA, and ancestry.
If you are from the greater Middle East, or have ancestry from the region, I would love to hear your opinion on the matter.
Thanks for watching! - ตลก
I dont know, i mean Bashar al-assad look like a french waiter and Saddam Hussein looked like an italian mafia-boss..
You just made me chuckle imaging Assad as a snooty French waiter, probably scoffing at some silly American for ordering the wrong cheese with the wrong wine.
He does look like a waiter lol!!! But the thing about French and Italians they are heavy race mixed with Africans and Semitics (who came to Europe as Neolithic invaders). Bashar is obv some sort of Crusader offspring with Arab influence and South Italians are Extremely race mixed with MENA... Middle eastern people cannot be white because whiteness comes from Cro-Magnon race. A mutant born in Europe 40.000 years ago. Scandinavians carry ~65% of his DNA and Westerners ~57%. Mena people have less then 5-10% of that...
So they are white
Saddam hussein does not look “Italian”. He looks Arab or Persian.
@@michaeljensen6205 you are probably Danish ancestry. Your racist attitude is very clear and in the open. But you too are offspring of a heavily mixed race due to Denmarks geographical location on the parth way between mainland Europe and Scandinavia. Denmark got populated around 7000 years ago by people coming from the south and the east. Swedish television recently aired a series about how Sweden got populated which pretty much applies for Denmark too.
Just because you speak Arabic, it doesn't mean you're an Arab. It's a language like any other and not a race.
like saying you speak spanish and then your spaniard? no
@Ratchet Going Commando fuck globalization
Today, the word Arab, means you speak arabic and have arabic culture.
@@henkarars not the right comparison, in arab nation, if your country has arabic spoken language, then you are in the Arab Nation. I am from Algeria, my DNA say Amazigh not from Arabia, but I speak Arabic and have arabic and amazigh culture, so I am arab but biologically amazigh african berber, same thing in Egypt, they are Copts arabs, in Syria Assyrian arabs, in Lebanon Phoenician arabs etc.
Marcelle Mars we know that idiot
As a middle eastern I hate it when they immediately assume that I am Muslim because I am Christian. We are Assyrians and all of us are Christian.
You just wish
@Scp 173 only in few villages
Question are there more Muslims or more Christians in the Middle East?
andre love,,,arabs almost muslims, A little christians and a little jews
Same! I am Armenian, so I am Middle Eastern and Christian as well.
Everything you’re explaining is so accurate and logical.
Arabs and persians don't hate each other, the governments do, it's a political things
United Arabs whatever
@J OneLife lol
That's because 90% of Arabs aren't really Arabs lol
I just consider people of peninsula as Arab
So you say we're half Arab? Lol
@thomas anderson According to National Geographic biggest genetic project, half of Iranian DNA is similar to Gulf Arab West Asian DNA. So yes scientifically speaking Iranians and Gulf Arabs have huge genetic commons.
Arab Atheist lmfao
Babak RezaZade I’m Iraqi and 100 % arab so shut your filthy mouth
Im Hungarian and Puerto Rican so that makes me a hungry rican 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lmfao
Your all kinda stuff thats ok more for the taking .
Too funny ! !☺️ All ppls need to get a DNA test ! We're all mixed breeds !
You a funny guy. You could also say rich and hungry LMAO
Hahaha stfu
I don't mean to sound like an expert or know-it-all, but the Middle East isn't one big country, ethnicity, or race. It's a region with many ethnicities, cultures, and religions...however these people within this region have been close enough to each other for so many years that we are able to just lump them in this "Middle East" category as if they are the same country/ethnicity/race/religion...etc.
I have been following your videos for about one year now and i appreciate the accurate information, also the bold stand you take on being informative and accurate.. I was not sure at first how you were going to come across with the information. I have found you to be on point with most anthropologist and science. I hope you continue your quest and thirst for real truth. Regardless of the ignorance, stupidity ,and persecution you will encounter . Thank you so much Masaman.
Thank you! Islam isn't a race or ethnicity.
Mary Rowe Islam isn't a country 😂 Ethnicity means a country that your parents originated from.
Areeb'skk I'm not stupid, if you can convert to it then it's not an ethnicity which is what my comment is saying. People often say stuff like "you're just racist against Muslims" but being critical about the tenets of a belief system isn't being judgemental of any particular race. I'm an ex Muslim.
Mary Rowe Ohh, haha sorry. I misread your comment. I thought you said Islam isnt a race its a Ethnicity.
@joseph eagle lmao
@J OneLife nope persian doesn't even have arabs dna
The term middle eastern doesn't mean anything. It's not a race nor a region. It's a made-up geographic location (by Europeans) to describe people who live in West/Southwest Asia.
And parts of North Africa
Mr. Wonderfulll
Ever heard of the "near east", the "middle east" and the "near east" are referring to the same region, and it is mainly referring to a place with certain similar cultures which influenced one another for centuries. That is why north Africa is also sometimes seen as a part from the middle east since it is heavily influenced by arab culture.
EVERY TERM in human language is "made up" by someone you stupid asshole, .. . it's called COINING.
@james c No. We're black.
Yeah, it's a racist backward way of calling people arabs. Even if they aren't arabs. The "Greater Middle East" forces this image even more.
Really depends on what part of the Middle East you're from. I've noticed that a lot of people from the Levant look very similar to other Mediterranean groups like Italians and Greeks.
Ray LaFleur But the majority of Greeks and Italians look different from them. Levantine people are darker with Semitic feautures
@@AphroditeX Obviously because Middle Easterners are mixed, they're not going to look exactly like south European. But majority of their ethnicity comes from Mediterranean Europe.
@Nati Natan Yes, you may be right. In Ancient times, this area was mostly darker skin people. Yemen and Saudi Arabia was almost completely African (Cushitic) people.
@Nati Natan Yes.
@@AphroditeX false, for example most syrian are white especially those from the north
You gave a great explanation! I’m a geographer that also studied religion and this was one the most detailed video. You sound like a professor!
The term 'Middle East' is a colonial term made by the British, it has nothing to do with geography, but great video.
Middle East is Western Asia.
The Levant and immediately surrounding land. The British were thinking of the lands on the eastern Mediterranean shore, easily accessible from bases in Cyprus., not much more.
Ignorant fool
middle east is assyria
@@ninaa5693 Middle East have parts of North Africa and Turkish lands in Europe.
I've tried to explain this several times to friends over the years, How a Syrian can be paler then the ones they expect to see thanks to TV and stereotypes. A lot of people really don't grasp how diverse the various populations of the middle east are and even explaining how racial features can vary even by regional tribes can be difficult.
Yh Ik someone from syria and he has red hair and no one believes he’s from there lol
I'm a Syriac Christian and nearly everyone I met in Europe thinks I'm from the U.S./U.K. but the moment I tell them I'm from Syria they instantly think I'm Muslim lmao
Recent science has found that genetically speaking there is more variation within Africa than there is between Africa and the rest of the world. Being of the same so called "Race" as another person does not mean those two individuals have more genes in common with each other than they do with an individual of a different race. There is more genetic variation within each race than there is between one race and another. Most people seem unaware of this. Of course we should remember that race is a product of culture rather than biology. That's why science has begun using the term "ancestry" instead of "race". It's more accurate and less subjective.
@@meowclaws4690 I’m not even pale, just lightly tanned and people don’t believe I’m Palestinian 😭😭 it’s crazy in the west. Ur either white or black there
Yeh it’s the same in sub Saharan Africa
Sending Love to my Middle eastern people 💜💜💜
Love from Syria
Scp 173 fucked up , 80% of people under the poor line my friend
Scp 173 before the Syrians been ripped off by the First Dumb Assad the 3 syrian lira used to kick off 1 dollar with the blessings of Hafez Al Assad the one dollar kicks 45 syrian lira and today the 2500 lira worth a dollar imagine what they did to the land and people
The word middle East refers to European colonization, who used the divide and rule age old tactic
@@embr33 sad 😢 love from Tunisia before the 2011 revolution the euro and the Tunisien dinar were the same
I'm Levantian my DNA reads Syrian, Italian, Greek, Caucasian, Turkic. So yeah
hey ya khayyé metlak lol
I'm greek and Middle Eastern and Balkan and 31 percent northern European
@Luke Bassilious interestingly I was always told we were northern Italian and German. I'm not northern Italian at all.
@Luke Bassilious my breakdown was 32 percent greek and southern Italian, 31 northern European, 20 percent Balkan, 14 percent middle eastern and then a random 1.7 percent finnish. I did not know i was serbian, middle eastern, or Greek. Or finnish.
@Luke Bassilious lol 😆 good luck 👍 but don't be surprised if you come back Japanese or French lol. I'm pretty sure the middle east and Greece and Italy have been intermarrying for centuries tbh. Considering the Shipping ports and numerous turns at invading each other.
I’m Kuwaiti, and I took a DNA test and it stated that I was 100% Eastern Arabian Peninsula. I have dark blond hair and coloured eyes though.
Sorry to break it to you. You arent kuwaiti 😂
Probably genetics left over from when they used to steal women from europe.
@@funkmaster2258 Well Arab is not a race
@@abdallahahmed825 yes its a mix of asiatic peoples none of which are nordic. So of shes got nordic dna it didnt come from iran.
thought arabic eyes are brown only
Dude you're a little bit of everything. This makes you a fine example of the human race. Absolutely fascinating videos. Keep it up bro.
Ethnicities don't matter in Islam it's a non issue we are all equal from whitest of whites of Bosnia to the darkest of dark of Ethiopia
Love and respect to all human beings regardless of colour
Luqman Sadiq
Whitest of whites would be from Sweden, Ireland or America not Bosnia
@@SinSavior1054 we are talking about islam not miscreants
@@SinSavior1054 why not Bosnia??
@@SinSavior1054 Bosnia is full of super pale and blonde people so why not? It is not like in Serbia where people are mixed with turks and gypsies and are way darker
@@SinSavior1054 Bosnia is slavic you idiot...
The Berbers call themselves Amazigh . Please call them the same,I mean call them Amazigh .Thank you
But arent all the North african People amazigh At the end? I mean, are we really mixed with arabs, or Its just a mith?
@@sarajasmine5296 it's a mith I considered myself arab but it ain't right I whas north african with european so where mixed with europe
Hicham Barhmi berbers are close to arabs than Europeans
Since when ????????? I'm Touarg and we don't like to be called that way , so next time just represent your self don't speak on behalf of everyone
@@sarajasmine5296 Nah this word Amazigh is something new on the north African region , for example I'm from Touarg, black berber tribe we never heard of it until recently!and actually it's only adopted by the Berber in Kabilya , saying that all the berber in north Africa are one rac , but the truth is they are using it for political reasons
i am a middle eastern from kuwait and when i did DNA ancestry test it shows that :
78% middle eastern
9% indian
7% Africa Southeastern Bantu
5% mali
1% Melanesia
just though i'd share this
essa almethen interesting
How you can do the DNA TEST
Dont share it with your Kuwaiti friends they just might stop hanging out with you.
Leif Vulfila why?
essa almethen Indian??! How did that happen?
It's so weird that Middle Easterners are counted as white by the US census when so many of them are easily distinguishable from Europeans. A lot of the darker skinned Middle Easterners could be confused for South Asian people who are grouped under a different racial category.
neurocytohemotoxic Arabs mixed porle historically but they have people more whiter than in europe
Try tell the difference between a Tunisian and a Sicilian.
Original Semites including Arab's prior to mixing were mostly of olive and light brown skin tones with black and sometimes dark brown hair with brown, black, and hazel eyes usually.
EXACTLY. I’m just a lil brown arab living in the states as a Muslim/Maronite. Yes I’m Lebanese and yes I consider myself an Arab. I look as Arab as they come so why am I having to be marked as white on census documents. Also why are all of these middle easterners hating on eachother.
Eljan Rimsa very easy, I literally googled it and the difference is stark
correction: the people of Sudan are African with Arab admixture, not the other way around.
Pleadthe5th i thinks arabs bc of the Arabic conquests
DNA tests show the arab admixture is meaningless.
Same as northern/southern italians, which they say are darker because muslim invasions on Sicily, but it's just sun exposure.
@@bushwackenbubba3988 Sudan means black in Arabic and was named that because the native nilotic tribes are the darkest people on planet earth
For that fact that African and Arab are two different things!
@@bushwackenbubba3988 there is nothing called half African.
can you do kurdish genetics ! it's interesting because they have light skin brown skin, blue black, eyes redheads etc... they look so mixed
We are of mixed origin, as far as I know. The Kurmanc Kurds are religiously mostly decended from Ezidis which have fairly light features (blue, green, light brown honey eyes, brown hair, ....), but partially mixed with Muslim Arabs and others after Islamic conquest. The Soran Kurds have also partially Caucasian and Arab admixture due to the Soran Emirate which had many Caucausian (and others) leaders. The Zaza Kurds mostly have dark features, probably because they mostly didn't mix with others (except Armenians) and hid between the mountains of the historical Dersim region. There are still other Kurdish subgroups like the Feylis/Kelhoris, Lakis and Gorani/Hawramis, but I don't know much about their appearance and historical regions etc.
@@alvinbernstein1045 You did not even mentions Persians Lol, dude we are very related.
Kurds and Persians are Indo-Europeans ... Aryans.
Iranians are not Arab, they are Persian. They do not speak Arabic, they speak PERSIAN(farsi). It is not pronounced I-ran! 😬😬
Talaye Zarashan not all persian thay are persian azeri turk lur kurd and etc
I meant most Iranians are Persians... 65% according to wikipedia
Talaye Zarashan you are persian!?
Talaye Zarashan hahah iranian are a race lol persian are ethnic dumbass
dastan rasul fuck up afknoi
Why does this have so many dislikes? It was a good video.
Lol thanks. Dunno. Maybe some Muslims didn't like it.
Inon Dukhan You're in luck. I'm going to be releasing a video on the origins of the Jewish people on this channel quite soon.
i think a lot of angry berbers being put in the middle east
Gavin McDonald
Because he is using some outdated generalizations. It is not easy to make videos like this unlike you really specialize in genetic genealogy and anthropology and also are honest (there is a lot of politics behind).
I believe the guy is honest but the task is far from simple. He pissed off people right from the beginning by putting Berbers original people from Africa as middle-Easterns! !! Terrible mistake as I have myself learned the hard way 😂 when I talked to an Algerian as an Arab a long time ago. I hope Masaman will take the criticisms well and edit his videos.
Masaman "maybe some moslems didn't like it" seriously mate!!
I honestly was going to like the video and subscribe to your channel after watching another couple of your videos (anything related to race and ethnicities seems to be very interesting to me) but you know what i don't need to receive knowledge from someone who's that biased and judgmental
You made it very clear in this video that you don't like Islam and i was fine with that it's your opinion that doesn't harm me but accusing us of hating and disliking the video for no reason why would we as moslems dislike the video you didn't say anything disrespectful towards Islam
Anyways keep doing what you're doing and have a good life
Lol this dude said “you know how I feel about Islam” Bro. Like, no we didn’t until you said it that way 🤭
hahahahahaha exactly !!!
What did He mean?
You guys are so petty this is what you took away from the video “how he felt about Islam” you guys are childish and clearly insecure about your stupid faith
@@bornstar481 Yes it was disrespectful from him to say so.
khalid9999k so it’s disrespectful for him to have an opinion on a religion? what are you gonna do cry about it? he has the freedom to say what he wants what he thinks and how he feels you probably have many negative opinion on other religions but your own but do you consider that disrespectful? Don’t be a hypocrite
Very interesting and definitely plausible.
I'm Sudanese and I'm just proud of being Sudanese nothing else🇸🇩🇸🇩🇸🇩🇸🇩🇸🇩👋❤️
Proud of what?
@Lamodrick Foster Black is not a race or ethnicity! And from your response I can see you are blatantly ignoring the diversity of Sudan.
goddamn life will you don’t know anything about us so shut up XD
Lamodrick Foster black it’s a color not a race and it’s not America XD
Sudan is arab
I love your videos man, I appreciate the effort you must make doing research. Keep it up and thanks for all the great content.
As an Iranian I love Arabs and their culture
This is such a stereotype that people say Arabs and Iranians hate each other
Arabs and iranians are brothers in islam❤️
Sure you do
the government hate eachother but not the people
Wait what? Iranians are not Arabs?
@@desert_rose7171 yes they speak Persian “Farsi” >> a whole different language. while us Arabs speak Arabic but we all Muslims and live in the Middle East.
Thanks, great informative video...
The guy in this channel looks middle eastern.
John Martle I am sure he's a Arab Christian trying to promote their unfounded Whiteness ha ha ha
Joe Jonas Azerbaijanis are Dagestanis and Albanians lol
He’s Mexican I think
Ingrid P mexican is not a race though
He said that his mother is half-black half-Iranian, and his father is German, Irish, and Italian, I believe.
Balochi is pronounced like "Baa low chee."
And Tamil is pronounce "Taa mill."
And Iran is pronounce "Ee ron."
:)
Good insightful video!
There are some oddities with this idea of a ‘middle-eastern’ “race”. Firstly, some peoples from the region are ethnically Semitic, such as the Arabs, while others are Indo-European, such as the Iranians, meaning that they belong logically to totally different racial groups. Secondly, surely any classification of Arabs as non-white would also mean that Jewish people would also have to go into a non-white category, and would presumably go into the middle-eastern grouping. I can’t imagine that happening for cultural, political and social reasons, so the whole idea seems very problematic to me. By the way, the US gives great emphasis to categorizing people by race, but this isn’t a big thing elsewhere.
Pichkalu Pappita Even if Indo-European is an linguistic group, all Indo-Europeans have genetically same ancestors
Indo european were a mixture as well
Because many Jews have more European DNA than Semitic.
I discovered Arabs some are very light colour just like europians but black hair and some are little darker and others notibly black from africa
What's the racial make up of arabs though? What are "arab features"? This video presents it like arab is a race. But it does seem like Berbers are descendants of Moors though
@@exillens
Arab features are (usually) bigger lips, longer more defined nose very dark hair brown eyes and just alot of hear growth.. however i saw someone comment that there are millions of arabs with blue eyes and blonde hair, but thats some bullshit ive never seen a single arab with blonde hair and i live in belgium wich is full of immigrants who come from the middle east. Also north africans have different features then arab features, most of them have a wider nose isntead of long and even bigger lips, also curly hair.
But some peolpe who live in egypt have white blood in them even if they claim to be 100 percent egyptian.. because white people came to egypt not long ago and now some familys are mixed with white in egypt.
Dag_The_Pimple
I'm an Arabic girl from the sham region. the majority of people have dark hair and light skin. We have a lot of green and gray eyes and we have blond and white skin.
we have in my family white with blond hair little pet darker that European, light with brown hair and dark skin with black hair, also, we have blue, green, grey, hazel, light brown and dark brown eyes.
We look different from the Gulf Arabs, we look different from Egyptians and North Africans.
We consider our selves are Arabs because we speak the Arabic language and before that, we spoke Syriac/Syrian, Aramaic language. I believe that my region is mixed with different ethnicity, but I proud to be an Arabian I love Arabs who considered themselves real Muslims other than that I hate fake Arabs.
@@dealeral-ahmar8075 First of all im saying that the person said there are millions of arabs with blonde hair and blue eyes, (imlpying that most or alot of arabs have blonde hair and blue eyes) wich simply isn't true, i know a ton of syrians some of them do have light skin but never blue eyes or blonde hair, sure there are some cases were they do have both but thats rare. wich is why i said (usually) smartass
Second of all i never said arabs have european blood in them, i said egyptians do because alot of white families moved to egypt (mostly from greece) wich is why some egyptian citizens have european blood and that explains for the difference in skill color there.
@@dag_the_pimple3859 see my chaneel about yemeni people in montin
Great job on this video, I’m middle eastern myself and i didn’t even know a lot of this! :)
Middle East of the British Empire!
@@raminkhajavi9513
If I was named after cheap noodles I would never say anything about anyone
@@mohamedkabha6861 , stop hating. The word middle east comes from the colonial British Empire.
@Shaheen Polus yes, India was also part of the British Empire, however they called it the subcontinent, as opposed to far East or middle east. As far as worshipping cows, what a great idea. Scientists have recently urged humans to be vegetarian due to deforestation and mass extinction of species. Better for water conservation, less pollution of ground water and air, can feed more hungry humans! As humans we now know that we can get our protein without killing animals. By mixing legumes and grains, such as rice or pasta with beans, usually tofu made of soybean, to make it chunky instead of meat. We are fortunate and blessed that there are now alternatives available, with all kinds of non animal products. Even instead of cows milk, there is soy, almond, and rice milk and dairy. They steal the milk from the baby and the baby from the mother cow. Then they put the baby cow in a small stall so it can't move, making muscles weak or meat tender, a delicacy called veal steak! Chickens that can recognize each other are crammed in cages alive. Pigs that are family oriented and more intelligent than dogs, crammed in stalls. The way we treat the animals is related to how we treat each other people and vise versa. Stop the torture and killing of all animals including people. Go veg(etari)an and humanitarian!
@@mohamedkabha6861 for your information and education, the noodle soup is spelled ramen. I didn't even watch this video, because I disagree with the title. There is only one human race, different ethnicities, cultures, and skin colors due to pigmentation. Common humanity and common sense, diverse yet interrelated cultures and beliefs, man made artificial borders.
I love Your content mate, no disrespect.
Wich race are middle eastners?
Human race.
So you are denying the fact that genetic differences exist between geographically separated groups of people?
@@kingsejong_thegreat_ there are genetic differences between persons.
Between people of different geographies and between people of the same geography
@@marpagapal3312 That's true, but genetic differences are stronger between groups of people that have been isolated from other continents and countries for thousands of years.
@@kingsejong_thegreat_ no group of people have been isolated for millenia from other continents.
We arabs are brown.
I am Arab and amazigh and proud. I am also a Muslim. And I held my head up hight.
love from Palestine to amazigh brothers ❤❤❤
Amazigh are not Arabs
@N A I'm just saying one reality, North Africa is basically AMAZIGH, a very old people that has nothing to do with Arabs, she is red-haired and with blue eyes, typical in the Amazighen, but not so in the pure Arabs.
@@Lolitocat you understand people can mix, yea?
A good video and excellent analysis too. One thing made me laugh though. The part where you stated that those of Middle-eastern descent in the U.S. did not want to be identified as white. This is actually true but what I found amusing is that American born east Asians, in particular those of Korean and Chinese descent would consider it an absolute blessing if the government identified them as white.
I'm East Asian-American (fourth generation), and I don't know any East Asian-American who wants to be classified as "white."
Well...with the possible exception of elite college admissions criteria, where East Asians are held to a higher academic standard than all other races--including whites.
In other words: with GPAs, standardized test scores, etc. being equal--one has a better chance of getting into the Ivys, Stanford, MIT and CalTech by listing white--rather than East Asian--on the race/ethnicity box.
@@takfam07 I don't know many east asians who want to be identified as white as well I only know so many asians who spend half their income on whitening products 😵..
Great descriptions
Great video; much of my ancestry comes from this regional area.
I'm from former yugoslavia and you can actually put WAHT ever you want on your ID. We have over 3000 people who have on there ID Jedi instead of serb or Bosnian.
Wtf
Awesome
Maybe that is one of the reasons why is "former"?
I am Algerian, I am berber not arabic
Massinissa Hamel Why are you ashamed of saying you're an Arab? Do you not enjoy having an Arab unity with your brothers and sisters? You can be still be am Arab Berber since you look like an Arab, you have an Arabic name, probably speak Arabic and follow Arabic religion (either Islam or Orthodox Christianity) and probably share in Arabic culture whether it be food or music.
But you're NOT an Arab? It's nonsense.
What did I do exactly to the Middle East? LMAO, what did Arabs do that the Romans, Persians, or Greeks didn't? Please explain that one.
who cares arab still better than you
Fuck the Berbers. We are Arab and we are united. fuck you zionist berbers trying to divide the Arabs
Race over religion. If you have light skin (white) , light eyes (green, blue, hazel) and light hair (blonde, red, light brown, brown) You're probably from the same people as me..
Free your mind brother!
Very interesting indeed !
Very good video.. covered a lot of facts..
Thanks Mason. I never thought of myself as having Middle Eastern ancestry. Frankly not really sure what I would classify as my "race". The reason I'm commenting is that you mentioned the Canary Islands, which is where my father's side is from. Does that constitute Middle Eastern? I've often debated with my wife over the color of my father's skin, which is dark like the older Arab men you showed in the video. I believe his color comes from an African origin, although he doesn't appear to have features we generally think of as black/African, ie his hair is straight, his nose is pointed and narrow. He was born in Cuba, as was my mother. As far as skin tone, I take after my mother, who is much farer. I figure her ancestry is from Spain, but we're working finding out more about that. My hair is black/dark brown and my eyes brown. I don't have the thick five o'clock shadow which many Latin and Middle Eastern males tend to have, although my brothers can grow full beards singly overnight. Most people will tend to assume I'm the race which they happen to be most familiar with depending on the geographic location, ie Jewish, Italian, or even Puerto Rican. An Irish person that worked for me once swore I could pass for Irish. You can probably see why I'm not sure what category I'd place my race in. Overall, I'd say my features are simply "white", but I can pass for and blend in with many different cultures (if you will). I was born in the United States and whenever asked about my race I laugh and say I'm American. That said, I'm quite proud of my wonderful Latin culture and freely associate there. Anyway, I enjoyed the video and welcome your thoughts on my comments, as well as anyone else who'd care to comment. Thanks again.
I identify with my nationality not what my parents or great grandparents were.
I’m not my parents or my ancestors. I’m me.
Guanche?
Thank you for your videos. They are well presented and informative. Keep up the good work!
Ethnicity is on your DNA and not on color of the Skin
Ethnicity is your culture.
@@mweskamppp Culture comes from your DNA.
@@cjw8497 You can't be serious. You do know the difference between hardware and software, right?
@@cjw8497 No it does not.... An example: the Mongols who converted to Islam when they invaded the Middle East. Was Timur the Lame Persian because he was culturally Persian?
Ethnicity is your culture even race isn't biological or about dna
Well explained
I may be considered an Arab, while in fact I'm Kurdish and black
Well, based on where you are. I would check Iranian box for Kurdish people, though
How can you be kurdish and african?
@@rostamshahpouri2191 one kurdish parent and one african
@@rasanhussain-younis3969 wow what a mixture, I bet you guys can halay like crazy
Good level of detail! You pack a lot of information here. I love the Middle East and have been to a few countries there. I was just in Lebanon a few months ago and my wife is planning a visit to the UAE in a few weeks. I've spent some time in Dubai - surely a good place to meet different people from all around the region. Keep up the good work, Masaman!
If it's a middle east where is the middle west lmao
@@donaldcoleman514 It comes from the way the continents are connected. We say "Middle East" because it's a region that ties together three continents in the East. The closest region we have like that in the West is Central America. We could call it "Middle America" if we wanted to just to make it consistent, but that never caught on. It's simply a referential convention.
Wanted to watch this from a very long time
We never asked ourselves what race we are ,till europeans came with their preoccupation with race.
True
Semites
Oh you did, many arab philosophers made distinctions between peoples. Ibn Khaldun is a famous one.
@@kwazooplayingguardsman5615it was an ethical thing like Turks vs Arabs vs Iranians fighting for the domination of the middle east but europens all generalize each other with the word white
As usual fantastic video with a great subject . Would love to see more on the mid east specifically Turkey and North Africa .
Most North Africans are Berbers nor Hausas. Their Arabic language is much different than the Arabic spoken in the Middle East.
North Africans are two groups, Berbers and Egyptians, both are historically cousins and both are NOT ethnically Arabs.
@@h.a.3049 Egyptians are closely related to Levantine people than they are to Berbers. On top of that, they share thousands of years of history and was always big part of the Middle Eastern/Mediterranean civilizations.
Their Arabic accent is so thick that it's unintelligible to someone from the heart of the Middle East
On an honest note, love your videos, very interesting.
European, Arabs, Iranians & Berbers are all of Caucasian descents. The term "Africa" is the latin translation of the Berber word Ifriqyia, which describes a divinity formerly praised in the region, before the roman invasion.
Farid your right Africa has its origins in the Berber language but the continent was given it's name at the time period that the black Berber preceded the pale face Berbers; before it was named Africa, it was named Akibaline; Farid as you well know that all of the pre historic rock art shows all of North Africa occupied by black Africans at one time in paleolithic time period, even showing these blacks wearing pre Egyptian regalia! what about the black African mummy of the green sahara for the Arab and white scholars when ever they discover the black figure at the dawn of historical greatness, then they always but academic road blocks into the overwhelming contribution of the black African or they do not rest until they discover a method or a form of tricknology in regard to disconnecting the black figure or figures from their own historical timeline and cultural greatness! please google boxer Mike Tyson and Pharaoh Narmer Menes look like brothers so that you will be forced to submit to your anthropological black parents historical greatness!
@@cush5147 Well there are interesting things in the description you are giving about discoveries made in North Africa. I see however a mismatch regarding the timeline of its occupation by the first human beings: the first Homo Sapiens sapiens were effectively black skinned 50000 years ago. They are refered as similar as current south-east Africans, like the Khoisans (the Bushmen, for example) or the Melanesians (Indian ocean). They mainly moved in two ways. The first towards Arabia, eastern and South Asia, Europe, Northern America etc... via Somalia and Ethiopia (current naming). This move is known as the "Out Of Africa" migration (around 40000 years ago). A second "inner" wave saw people moving to the west through the Sahel and the Congo essentially, and the north via the African Great Lakes. I am not going to discuss all the analysis done around DNA's exploration and population's migration. I will simply underline here that the group called Nilotics started to occupy an area covering the Lake Victoria into the northern current Sudan around 7000 years ago (Upper Paleolithic). The west migration through Sahel and Congo saw the expansion of the Bantu population around 5000 years ago, the most common group in the Sub-Saharan area (West and Central Africa). Distinctively to this inner migration, some of the "Out of Africa" Sapiens groups started migrating towards the South Eastern Europe/Middle East (Caucasus, Anatolia etc...) around 15000 years ago and then settled in Northern Africa (Berbers, Middle Easterns), around 7000 years ago. The Egyptian civilization is thus historically mentioned as it around 5000 years ago with the unification of the Lower Egypt (Berbers) and Upper Egypt (Nilotics) by the king Scorpio, a Nubian, who became the first Pharaoh of the first dynasty of Egypt, commonly known as Menes (or Narmer). The first unification of Egypt, under the Kush Kingdom's control, lasted due to internal and external issues (governors’ authority, drought, starvation) with invasions by surrounding powers from the North (seas and the Middle East) 4000 years ago. The following periods and unifications will all be marshaled by the "northern" dynasties until the roman conquest. The term Africa is the Latin translation of the Berber word Ifriqyia. Pale and brown Berbers hold close DNA and their skull analysis show that they are both of Caucasian descents. They are not related to the three other African groups (Bantus, Nilotics, Khoisans). Thanks for your comments.
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If the apostle Paul was sent to the gentiles in Asia then that means Israel was considered African ! ✌️
If you go like this, don't forget the East Africans and Central/South Asians, who also belongs to this group. The reality is that everyone is mixed and there is no race with clear boundaries.
NORTH AFRICA MOROCCO is amazigh with tamazight langauge we dont speak arabic because we are not arabs
U do dumass
Yes on Rif région of marrocco and others they dont speak a word or arab
Congratulations
عبيدنا مقهوين العرب لا يتشرفون فيكم حبيبي
@@quikskoprbro968 stfu
Sudanese have African descent because of the slave trade? What sort of misinformation is this? The original population of Sudan was Black African and it is still largely Black and mixed. Have you ever heard of the Nubian kingdom?
Black isn't a race
Piman Mann Jaques exactly lol
Hijabi Gamer facts sudan was part of egypt..them so called Arabs are ottoman turks...fake arabs
Hijabi Gamer r u stupid...who the fuck took over egypt..b4 and when president sadat died..r u fucking kidding me...ottoman turks didnt convert ...and called by others as arabs when they're not..give me a fucking break.and go read a book...
Hijabi Gamer sudan was part of egypt there was a lower and upper part of egypt...sudan included
you should also add that SLAVIC isn't a race/ ethnicity either. its just a language that's it
@@thotslayer9914 Please go educate yourself.
Egypt is the only African country that is literally in the middle east. the middle east is a transcontinental direction going from Egypt to western Asia.
TheEgyptianOne the Egyptian tells a lie and then makes himself believe it 😂
Then why did Ancient Egyptians state Asians were foreigners and Cushites( Sudanese) as brothers.
How am I lying dumbass? lol. Egypt is an AfroAsian country. Sinai is basically in western Asia. Egypt is the hub of the Arab world. Why do you think we call Oum Kalthoum "Kawkab al Sharq" aka "Planet of the East"?
TheEgyptianOne Egypt is in Africa. A tiny part of it joins the "Middle East." Who determines where Africa stops and the Middle East begins? It's one large land mass with a man-made canal.
Neg Ste. Lucie Sinai is not in Africa, it is in Asia. The border between Africa and Asia is drawn along the Suez Canal. and Egypt as a whole is in the middle east and in north Africa/western asia. Go back to school. Egypt has always been a middle eastern country which has nothing to do with continents. The middle east is a fucking direction/region not a continent. You westerners are so fucking stupid lol.
The comment section of anything to do with middle east always makes me sad. None of them can communicate positively without resorting to name calling.
Partly because the word middle east, refers to European colonization who used the divide and rule age old tactic.
Feel you. Just look into a comment section about Jews...
Middle East has always had it rough. First they were decimated by Asians. Now they are decimated by whites
@@peterthesneakybastar Which Asians?You need to be more specific because Asian isnt a race,and technically speaking Middle East IS in Asia.
@@gpl992 Asian is definitely a race, but if you want specifics there were many Asian ethnic groups with the most prominent one probably being the Mongolians. Also, the Middle East is not Asia. It’s actually divided into three continents: Asia, Europe, and Africa. And genetically speaking the Middle East is more white than they are asian.
Correct me if I'm wrong, didn't Greater Persia in the ancient past also included Anatolia (which included the city of Troy) during the period of the Achaemenid Empire?
Great videos Massaman. I can tell you do a lot of research to talk about all this topics, you provide great information that actually most people of this country need. It's ironic that you are talking about this fascinating topic and I listening and learning about it and ask my self what ethnicity you are, can tell if you are Hispanic, middle Easter ancestry or something else. Keep up the good work..
They are humans, as we all are. That's all you need to know.
Most humans dont blow up a bus.
and school shooting :D
fuck you
and fuck you to :)
Easy there seems like you are just about to blow up lol. Why dont you hit the books and make something of your culture and innovate instead of buying stuff with your oil money and not working or studying.
The presenter has taken a complicated subject and managed to explain it very well.
Found this video fascinating - along with a few others about the people of North Africa - after learning my DNA results. Though I was of German, English and Sicilian ancestry, found out it is much more complicated with DNA from North Africa, Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, etc. I thought the Sicilians was going to be more greek......
As an Egyptian I just think that we’re brown. A mix of everything
You look white. Egyptians are closer to other Mediterranean people. It's been like that along time.
Hana Neal what if we’re white
gypoman95 that Arab people got their in AD after the Romans and after the Greeks and the Greeks named it Egypt are we acknowledgement of this fact and the people before who occupied that land and built its monuments are we acknowledging they are from south ie Tah Marie (Sudan) by the way of further south ie ancient Punt as stated themselves? Do we also acknowledge the ancient language to be part of the Ntu language family which Bantu Chiluba Chikam ect to name a few are also part of proven by linguists using the historical comparative method (dna for language) on the continent?
No arab name called neal I am egyptian I know we don't have this name you are lying
Be careful doing that cause like Whites & Blacks y'all get lumped togther & the concept of culture (not culture itself) gets lost!
Exactly we all share blood from all over the place lol. My nationality is UAE, but I have Egyptian, Persian, Turkish, and Greek ancestors! And I'm proud of all of them.
amilitarymind there is no way you have Turkish ancestry.
@@anlyuksel2194 he has. Like it or not.
@@anlyuksel2194 and live in denial if you want
Ahmad Istanbouli Sure buddy, whatever you say.
amilitarymind prove it!
Let me put this on record, you rock
All my middle eastern friends never really thought of themselves as white
There are light and dark skinned. Middle East refers to European colonization. Skin color is due to pigmentation. People with lighter skin color have been living in places with less sunshine for millennia. Some places do have mountainous regions in the area. Although the oldest homosapien bones have been found in east Africa around 100,000 years ago.
@@raminkhajavi9513 I know there are light skin and dark skin people in the middle east. What I meant was that my friends never referred to themselves as "white" even if they were of a lighter skin tone and looked European.
@@hoodhippie3404 true. I was born there, but now that I am older, i don't call it the middle east of the British Empire. It is southwestern Asia. Egypt in Africa. Or central afro Eurasia. Unfortunately, some of my countrymen call themselves white, and there are prejudices towards dark skinned people. I am generalizing. I'm glad most of your friends do not identify with skin color.
@@hoodhippie3404 also I got a job at Amazon, and although my skin tone is brown, my profile says white. Because just like the u.s. census, they not only use the term middle east, but designate one as white category if u were born there! Whereas Pakistan and India considered Asian. They also call white and black a race, whereas we are all one human race. I did write a note for the census, but I don't think it made much affect.
@@raminkhajavi9513 Cool I work at Amazon too. Definitely understand what you mean, Western Asia and North Africa definitely deserve there own spot on the census. I also have trouble with identifying myself with a race on the census. Me being Dominican/Puerto Rican technically were considered Hispanic but genetically were tri racial being of European, African and Indigenous descent. People from my countries can come in all shades from extremely pale to very dark. I look racially ambiguous so people have guessed me as all sorts of things middle eastern being one of them. Even though the term Hispanic/Latino are very broad I kinda wish there was a mixed race option. Ive been known as Hispanic on paper (birth certificate, government documents etc.) since I was born so I guess there's no changing it now.
"So are you Chinese or Japanese?"
"Laotian!"
"What ocean?"
Los Angeles' Ocean. 🤓
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The most graceful and moving like dancers
Are Algerians supposed to be considered as half Asians
Are Algerians supposed to be considered as half Asians
Would you recommend any particular dna test to ascertain from which part/ specific group of the Middle East exactly we are from? Thanks
You lady is of the race .... incredible beauty
Mason, You have mentioned in your video, Middle East located in the middle of euro, Afro Asia hence the name. Middle East is actually a British colonial term. It was referring to British empire and where is was located. Turkey was near east because it was near Europe and Japan was Far East for the same reason. I think the time has come to refer to the region as west Asia as most other organizations do. North Africa is called that for a reason, it is not near south. Not sure why west Asia is the exception.
Also the country of Iran is pronounced e-run not I-ran. I know your heritage traces back there, so it’s surprising for you to say it that way
You know Africa is from a Roman term, So is Greece, and Britain, And Italy is a Greek word not the name used by the people from there - as is Persia ..... should we change all these names for the sake of political correctness?
There are number of countries in the world that have more than one name and that is perfectly fine. Political correctness plays a major role in the naming process as it did in your example of Iran changing its name to accommodate all ethnic groups,in the country.
In the case of Middle East, the term is nonsensical and it was coined by the British from their point of view. Firstly, many of the regions such as British America changed their name ever since, secondly,, the rest of the world refers to the region as West Asia.
Why would you support a naming convention even though it is wrong, to be appropriate? Native Americans as the name suggests, are exactly what the name suggests, they are not Indians, they have nothing to do with India . They are called that because some European guy had a very bed sense of direction.
Using the same argument, aborigines are humans and not animals as the colonists classified them, for years. You have a choice to understand the cultures and respect them, I abide by that sentiment.
@@kylemoghadam9011 Great response man
@@johncale1849 It is not political correctness because term itself place one person according to the perspective of another who lives in western Europe.
I can't be middle eastern to myself , far eastern person is named according to someone lives in west again. These are eurocentric terms and makes no sense apart from political agenda like Great Middleastern project /The Great game etc.
I prefer west asian or eıurasian especially I am not Muslim and I don't want to be related according to old story books.
I like these vid.s it gives answers .
I like your videos , so informative ! Am indian , we have so many races in here as well as religions ! It is true skin colour can't decide anything !
Name some of the many “race” in India. I’m just curious. Don’t give me “white, black, yellow, brown” type answers.
@@Handle_Edit Dravidian mixed kind , Mongolian ancestry , Turkish afgan race etc .. am bengali, still what kind of race am from I have dobuts ! Lol .. hope u understand !
Sanchari Guha I hope you understand that what you just stated is not “Race”. I’ve wrote something earlier but it was erased. Maybe it was the channel owner , who knows. But India is a mixture of many ethnic groups of people that have settled on the lands throughout millennia. Living in close proximity will lead to cultural, linguistic and blood/kin exchanges. Some groups are considered recent and some may have been the native to the area. Invasion and conquest also play a part as well. Leading to cultural changes and blood/kin mixtures. Overall it’s a multi ethnic region who shares cultural/linguistic and lineage throughout time. Modern India is now the political entity that bring forth unity of these people into on national identity...Indians.
I love how my post keeps getting erased. 😂 i guess someone or something doesn’t like truth. Maybe it’s this clown who makes these videos.
@@Handle_Edit yes we are so mixed up , we actually don't know what are we ! We r from human race I hope lol ! 😂 .. where r u from ?
You made a mistake labeling which countries semitic people inhabit. Ethiopia has a significant semitic population, a majority in fact.
NATHAN, Nice job as usual. Giant commentary follows, as usual. ha. ha.
His name is mason
most of the people of the Middle East have lighter skin than the first photo you attached, actually you look like a Turkish Middle Eastern, I don't get it, did you search for the most brown Middle Easterners? the average Syrian, Lebanese, Palestinian, Egyptian, Qatari, Algerian etc.. have lighter skin than that.
I’m a Kuwaiti and I have a lighter skin, but most Kuwaiti literally tan every single summer.
Wonderful video. I really appreciate a lot you taking your time for such a complex explanation in a simple way. Two Observations. 1st. Personally, I have a vision regarding the Caucasus are and Northern Iran(And maybe Turkey). I believe that due to historical, geographical and genetics reasons, it is a separate continent in itself. I believe is Eurasia. For example Armenians, Azeris and Georgians in one way or other carries a huge amount of R1A or R1B blood wich happens to be the main base of European blood lines (R1A=Slavic, R1B=Celtic). With that said comes point 2. History, culture and traditions as well as Geographical localization, get you into Middle Eastern Asians but they are European Blood. Interesting.
Cuz they colonized us
All of you, come from one mother, we're one race, one people! We have different, complexions, tribes, clans, customs, and religions, but we're all cousins! That's scientific, and has not been disputed by racist, bias, prejudice superiority complex! One Love my Relatives!
Thank u I'm tired of this social division that being said alot people are misunderstood
@James except you, you are a special human, stop being silly!
I love your work my friend. I send you my love and my respect. God and Goddess bless you.
Lots of Middle Eastern either extremely closed and managed to be 70% of their blood or managed to have every blood line mixed lol for example in Saudi when I was living there the tribes RARELY mixed with others outside, the part of saudi close to Africa had more Dark skinned ppl and when u go to the middle (najd najid sorry if I said it wrong) white-brown olive color, and when u go up to north they have more of these mediterranean Look they have a big long history of slavery yes some of them mixed but A lot didn’t and to me it’s just interesting to see how can the middle eastern society be so full of mixtures yet keeping their blood line “pure” (lol of course there is no pure blood line after all) idk where the original tribe lives mostly tho ig in the middle and the hijaz area? Idk
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Fair-skinned half-Turk here. The Middle East is a mishmash of several groups.
First half of your name,a Hellenic derivation.........Second half, Hebrew, where does the Turkish fit in? I am asking with respect and do not mean any insult. You are right about the Middle East being a "mishmash" of several groups, however it has nothing to do with people, it has to do with a group of countries named the Middle East for strategic reasons during the great wars. No such thing in Geography.
İskender İbrahim Me too lol
HELLENICPRIDE100 Turks have Mediterranean dna some of it is Yani Cer some of it is just being Anatolian and having to convert, put it this way everyone in the Balkans has a,Albanian Macedonian great grandfather
Modern day "Turks" in mideast are only Turkish in language, no dna.
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Dear Masaman,thank you for your great work.One thing I would like to mention is that before the new continent was discovered,if you look at the map,you will see that this part of the world was smack bang in the "MIDDLE" of the known world hence,may be,MEDI TERAINEA i,e middle lands ,"there you go "as our dear grand dad in "my fat greek wedding"would say.I am of Iranian descent and wouldn't like to hear anyone pronouncing the name as "I RAN".It is pronounced EERON.Please pay attention.
They're a mixture of different ethnicities.
For example around the 5th century BC persian envoys to India were represented in the Ajanta caves outside Bombay with light skin, blue eyes and blond hair.
What does he mean when he says “Most of you know how I feel about Islam.” At 1:26
He loves Islam, just as he does every thing else
Clearly you haven’t watched enough of Masaman’s videos to know what he is talking about lol
Kyle Bennett I watched every one of his videos since the first one you dumb fuck. Btw this is only his 4th vid. If u don’t know shit then keep yo ass shut. I was just curios of what he meant.
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Hi Mason , how are you ? This is really very interesting , it shows how until a certain point race is social/political , as the term Latino ( which I'd like to discuss with you some other time ) , if we go deeper in History , there were even many other mixtures in that region ( Ancient World ) , that I prefere to call as North East Asia and North Africa , then Midle East , people went up and down from one part to the other of all that region , including Europe ( North West Europe ) , so as it appears in your video , if the people of that region are white or not ( when their skin is realy pale and their facial features are European ) has much more to do with what they identify themselves then what they are considered by others , although to me the white skin people from there are realy whites , as any European ( sometimes much whiter then some Europeans , and a few are as white as the Europeans from North West Europe , and I say the same regarding facial features ) , but I understand that sometimes that is denied for two reasons , by the Muslims or Arabists ( that can be both or not ) , and by some white Europeans because it´s difficult and confusing to accept that there are still whites just like them , but who were arabized , after the borders of Europe as if the borders could realy make such difference , and because culturally and socially it was made up that all those people are very different from them ( as a part of them realy are ) , so how could they be the same race socialy talking then ! ? !
Do you understand my point ?
Greetings , João Taques .
He still didn't answer the question lol why do many middle eastern look the same? 90% of the time I can look at someone and determine if they are middle eastern just by their facial features, but often I'm told they are not a race lol
As ½ South-Moroccan (Shilha/Sahraoui) and ½ Dutch, this were my DNA results:
45% North-African
2% Sub-Saharan
(From the Moroccan side)
22% Scandinavian
22% Iberian Peninsula
8% Italian
1% Amazon Native
(From the Dutch side)
My Dutch mother did the test too, so that's how I know what came from what side. Anyway, this proves that not all North-Africans have been mixed with Arab. My father wants to do one of those tests too, I'll update if he has results.
Funny how your "Dutch" part isn't even Dutch at all but a half-Scandinavan/half-Iberian admixture.
@@FaithfulOfBrigantia Iberians are 10% Iberomaurusian who migrated into Iberia.
Western Sahara 🇪🇭 is not Morocco keep dreaming 😂😂😅
@@FaithfulOfBrigantiaWestern Sahara isn’t Morocco sahrawi not Moroccan stop it 😠
you are so thorough in breaking it down. can you please provide more videos?!?! I am a mix of Muslim and Jew. I did not know where to start. thanks!!!
MIDDLE EAST is a POLITICAL term
True, it refers to European colonization of the area.
proper name is west asia and north african right?
@@monicamungun5606 exactamente! Not middle east of European colonizers!
The Guanches were blond Cromagnids. A certain Cromagnid element is present in Berbers too.
like the western part of algeria today
do one about Mexico, I find Mexico to be as diverse as India and yet many Westerners, in general, seem to categorize every Mexican as being automatically brown.
John Smith most are Native American,European and black.
John Smith mostly Arab origin. Andulosea
Jordan Ali that’s not true,most are mestizo. Native American and European. There’s a small percentage of Mexicans that are Arab.
+classicarah
much Latinos from moors are Arabs and Berbers much of them
from mothers ibirians
You your look honey like
like have roots black you
Southern Europe all carry blood moors
Spaniards himself became no Europeans from golden age
800 years much much years southern Europe mixed much much with moors
Almost southern Europeans became
look Like Arabs berbers north africa
real Europeans not Morenos
pure Europianos Robiios blond not morenos
Halima Halima I took an ancestry test,I’m Latina and I got 47.5 Native American,38.8 European,3.3 sub Saharan African ,1.6 middle eastern North African.
Quick question
Is race same as ethnicity? What are the differences?
I'll give you examples. Somebody is arab which is their ethnicity but their race is black since there are arabs from all races. Or a Latina. That's the ethnicity. Now latin american people are from everywhere. Their race could be caucasian, native american, black, asian or mixed. Hope you could understand
When you have such a large area with several races, and ethnic groups converging on each other. There's going to be a lot of intermingling and mixing. Do it enough times between at least a couple of different ethnic groups. And eventually, you have a new ethnic group.
Except that's not what the genomic history of the middle easts indicates, the vast majority of the peoples of the people east have a semitic cluster, heck their european ancestry is even larger than that of the subsaharan one but still minimal (13% vs 8%). And geographically, that makes sense, given that there are HUGE geographical barriers preventing the movements of peoples from sub saharan africa and north africa, ie the saharan desert and the atlas mountains.
I hate hate hate having Morocco be grouped with middle east.
notoreeuzz Haha yup. That's a lesson I learned the hard way. Just look at the comment section of this video. It ain't pretty.
Masaman yeah in the recent years a lot of North Africans, specifically Moroccans & Algerians, have been learning & realizing the fact that our countries have been arabized over the past century & that pretty much all of us come from berbers. Also realizing the fact that our culture & history is pretty distinct from the middle east, especially Morocco. Great video btw.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed!
notoreeuzz the royal family of Morocco are from Middle East ;)
MrLiberali yeah their very first family member, he married into a amazigh family & it kept going on as such through the generations. Even the current king's wife is Berber.
I like to know how you feel about Islam, by the way I am an African-American Muslim.