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[–]weavilsatemyface 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Neither.

Egyptians are neither "white" (Caucasian) nor "black" (sub-Saharan African). Despite being conquered many times, there have been no mass migrations into Egypt that has drastically changed their racial demographics. Ancient Egyptians, like modern Egyptians, are their own people, most closely related to other north Africans (the Berbers) with a significant genetic connection to the black Nubians of Sudan.

They're not genetically Arab either. Egyptians consider themselves culturally "Arab" in the same way that French, Italians, English, Greeks, Americans, Australians etc consider ourselves culturally "Western" but they don't think of themselves as ethnically Arab. They're Egyptians.

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Got it. Thank you for sharing.

[–]JewsAreOfColor 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

caucAsians are Asian. There are no “white people.” There, I killed “white people” by proving they don’t actually exist.

[–]weavilsatemyface 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

caucAsians are Asian

Actual Caucasians are the native people from the Caucasus, so Georgians, Russians, Ossetians, Albanians, Chechens etc. But in common usage, people use "Caucasian" to mean "white people" (whatever white means) or "people from Europe, north Africa, or the Middle East, sometimes but not always excluding Arabs and Semites".

In other words, like all other "human races", pure bullshit.