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

Do Egyptians consider themselves black or white?

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

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.