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Do you consider Egyptians as Middle easterners or Africans ?

pikaa

and if there are some in tsr do you consider yourselves africans or not ? and Why ?

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Reply 1

Pulse.

Good question. I would generally say Africans but I'm not sure.

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Reply 2

queen-bee

Middle Eastern because of the language and culture

Reply 3

Abraam56

Middle Eastern but I don't know why exactly. [Egypt is in North Africa]

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Reply 4

MissLioness

Middle East, since Arabs refer to Egypt as "The Mother of the World".

Reply 5

Buguinha69

Of course they are Africans!!!!

Middle East is a different geographic region.

Also.. there are other African countries with similar religion/culture to the Arabic. But calling Egiptians of Arabs is kind of a racial prejudice indeed... People consider that Africans are just black people! That is just wrong guys.

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Reply 6

ATW1

They are Africans because they are natives of Africa.

Reply 7

jokes2

If you want to denominate Egyptians simply by the continent they live on, then of course they are African. However ethnically they are Semitic and should be refereed to as Arabic.

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Reply 8

poohat

They obviously aren't Africans. Saying "they live in Africa" is silly, noone considers white South Africans to be Africans for example (try applying for US scholarships aimed at "African Americans" if you are white and see what happens)

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Reply 9

ATW1

Original post by jokes2

they are not natives of africa...

Are Tunisians, Libyans, Moroccans, and Algerians also Arabic then? They speak Arabic, but they are very much African.

Reply 10

jokes2

Original post by ATW1

They are Africans because they are natives of Africa.

They are not natives of Africa on a larger scale, because their predecessors were not.

Reply 11

jokes2

Original post by ATW1

Are Tunisians, Libyans, Moroccans, and Algerians also Arabic then? They speak Arabic, but they are very much African.

They are ethnically Arabic. Ever heard of the Arabic conquest ? Call them African_Arabic if you wish.

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Reply 12

ATW1

Original post by jokes2

They are ethnically Arabic. Ever heard of the Arabic conquest ?

The question wasn't about ethnicity. It was simply 'Do you consider Egyptians as Africans'. They are Africans, end of story.

Reply 13

jokes2

Original post by ATW1

The question wasn't about ethnicity. It was simply 'Do you consider Egyptians as Africans'. They are Africans, end of story.

Well there is a difference between African and Native African. Think about Native Americans or for example, a 10th generation Asian American is still Asian.

Reply 14

jokes2

Actually the question should be whether you consider Egyptians to be African or Asian.

Reply 15

Grantland

From my experience, people from the top of Africa, namely Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, etc. don't like being called "African". Again, this is just from talking to friends.