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arab is not used as an ethnicity but refers to someone who speaks arabic as a mother tongue. In the same way, that North africans refer to themselves as Arabs a
by dfhdshfff 7y ago
arab is not used as an ethnicity but refers to someone who speaks arabic as a mother tongue. In the same way, that North africans refer to themselves as Arabs although genetically they are less than 50% Arab.
- mehrdadn 7y agoA whopping ~2% of Iranians have Arabic as their native language. That means, if you're going based on language, you're mislabeling 98% of the population.
- dfhdshfff 7y agoI hold it to be obvious that I'm talking about the scientists (That lived in the Islamic Golden age) not about modern day Iran. Plus Most of them were not born in Iran proper.
- jlg23 7y ago> In the same way, that North africans refer to themselves as Arabs although genetically they are less than 50% Arab. Not sure where you got this from, here in Morocco, calling a Berber an Arab is a pretty sure way to piss him/her off.
- dfhdshfff 7y agoTunisia, Lybia. 99% of Tunisians self identify as Arabs