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...
@@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.
@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
Is it though? Or am I missing the sarcasm? He tries to sound “smart” but then say some stupid ish. Plus his fake monotone announcer voice is contrived and/or pretentious
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.
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'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.
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
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
@@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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
@@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.
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
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
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
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.
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!
@@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.
@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.
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.
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.
@@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
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.
@@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.
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?
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...
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.
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?
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.
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.
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 😵..
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!
@@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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
This american race obsession has to stop. Talking about race is pointless. There's so many cultures and ethnicities. It's distespectful to break it down to "white" or "black"
@Melvin CarterYes, but ethnicity is not the same as "race"... My ethnicity is Hispanic since I was born in a nation colonized by Spain and Spanish is my native language... however, "Hispanic" isn't my race... yet some people think that "Hispanic" is a race... I don't really know what's my race.... My sister took an ancestry test and she found out that she was 60% southern European, 30% south american native american and 10% other races. I think people who are so mixed are unlikely of feeling identified with a specific race..
@Melvin Carter I hear you... You have to keep the faith and do research on the truth. IT'S THERE... What made it easier for was, looking at the bible from a historical perspective. Not so much a religious perspective. Then it will all makes sense and fall in place.
@@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 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.
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.
@@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.
@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.
@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.
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!
@@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.
And most Turks are actually Greeks and Indo-Europeans that assimilated to Turkish culture, that's why its extremely hard to understand whether someone is Turkish or Greek or Bulgarian. For example, I am Turkish and I look just like Alexander which is extremely cool!
Talk for yourself we are not Greek we have eastern rome DNA like %25 Bu this doesnt make us Greeks Turks are mostly West Asian people A mixture of Caucasia and middle east
Orkhanreis There is no such thing called Eastern Rome DNA. Greeks are not a pure race, they are a mixture of certain races and we have pretty much the same percentages! And in some cases like Aegean and Marmara, Turks living there are closer to Greeks then Turks living in the eastern side of the country!
@@melihism düşündüğünüz kadar fazla değil Rum(Yunan italian) genleri Türkiye çapında %25 lik küçük bir bölümü temsil ediyor %75 West Asia İran orta doğu orta asya
@@melihism özellikle testi yaptiranlar Rum kökenli olma ihtimali olan veya kafalarında soru işareti olanlar Türkler biliyor kendini açıkçası ben yaptırsam West Asia orta asia ve birazcikta İtalyan çıkabilir Çünkü bulunduğumuz bölgede italyan yüksek çıkıyor
"middle easterners" is really too large to be considered a single group. You have Semitic and Aryan genetic influences as well as some amount of Asian ethnic groups. So you can go from Lebanon which is almost entirely semitic to Pakistan which is almost entirely Aryan. The result is naturally a plethora of ethnic groups throughout the region. Probably why they have so much conflict. Well that and foreign involvement instigated and perpetuated by a certain group of people. For anyone splitting hairs about my use of the term Aryan instead of proto-indo-european, Aryan is the historically used term and there's no real reason not to use it. I understand some people associate it with Nazis and also Inidans don't care for it or Aryan invasian theory. I don't consider those reasons to not use the term though, especially since it's much shorter. I do find the relationship between Nazi Germany and India before and during ww2 slightly ironic if only for their disagreement on this issue. Either way for clarification I consider Aryan to be any people that speak an indo-european language.
The term middle east refers to European colonization. As u mentioned, one major factor is the arena for war games, making profits for the weapons industry, and the oil, a precious commodity over the past hundred years. Divide and conquer is also an age old tactic. With the invention of the chariot, many Aryan tribes swept westward towards Europe, and southward toward India, around 2500bce. That's why the languages from Hindi to Celtic are related, the indoeuropean language family. Hitler's Aryan theory, was white skinned blonde blue eyed people going from Germany towards Russia, when it is now understood to go the other direction, and not necessarily uniform phenotypes, but perhaps more light skinned. Although the oldest homosapien bones have been found in east Africa around 100,000 years ago. Skin color is due to pigmentation. Lighter skinned people have been living in places with less sunshine for millennia.
@@raminkhajavi9513 well said. I have to disagree with the last bit about the earliest humans in East Africa. I actually disagree with even the phrasing "earliest humans" though I'm aware it's commonly used. It's my understanding that out of Africa theory was debunked some time ago. The fact it hasn't been widely corrected is because of political correctness infiltrating academia. The leading theory now is that cro-magnon is our common ancestor and through prolific migration mated with local hominids to produce the local ethnic groups you see today that are well suited for their environment. This is the only explanation for why sub Saharan Africans are the only humans without neanderthal dna AND also have dna from a yet to be identified archaic hominid not seen in any other population. I'm a big fan of the indo-european language family. The Pinnacle of the family in my opinion is Sanskrit which is just beautiful. I've been trying to learn it to read the Vedas in their original form, but it's quite difficult. I'm under the impression sanskrit is the most similar language all indo-european languages are derived from. Something I've theorized is that there is an original indo-european religion too. There are certain similarities between Norse, Greek/Roman, Egyptian, and Hindu theology that suggest a common influence. I'm sure there's likely been someone smarter than me come to this conclusion and find more accurate proofs.
@@alexhurt7919 that's strange, my long reply last night is not here! I don't believe the out of Africa, for homosapien, has been debunked. Although, it's always good to question. Many years ago, a molar tooth of mine was taken out at a free clinic, next to a prestigious university that I attended. The guy said no, when I asked if I could keep it. Next day it was on front page of the newspaper, a professor from that same school, had discovered it in Ethiopia, new name of australopethicus remidus! Also, the indoeuropean language family was coined by a British judge in Calcutta in the late 1700s, when he noticed similarities between the languages. Jones (?) Also, in terms of similarities in religions and mythologies, Joseph Campbell was the best!
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..
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.
People of middle east and north africa are WHITE and it is not something what you can agree or disagree they just are and it doesn't matter that their skin isn't white(Chinese people's race is yellow and it doesn't mean that it is their skin color) and if someone still disagree with me then just go to book store and buy geography book. Persian, Arabs, Jews, Barberians they are all white. Once again, race isn't something which with people can identify. You are just who you are .
Very true but afro-centric assholes love to make lies and this dumbass in the video doesn't know anything about real Middle Eastern people(Arabs, Persians, Turks, Armenians).
@@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.
@@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 think the majority of the middle easterners are : 70% white 20 % black 10 % Far east the result is the best mix race , beautiful , unify the best in one .
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.
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.
Turkic isn't really a race. It's just a language family that spread across a very large area. You can see this quite clearly in Central Asia, where the various Turkic-speaking populations are very, very different. The origin of the Turkic languages is in northeastern Asia, around the area of modern Siberia and Mongolia, and you can see the Turkic-speaking populations from this area like the Sakha, Altay, Khakas, and Tuvans look very similar to Mongolians and other indigenous northeast Asians. From there, they spread into Central Asia, where the languages spread to the large existing populations of agriculturalists, making the Uzbeks and Uyghurs, who are actually a mix of many different ethnic groups that inhabited or moved into the region before, during, and after the Turkic languages became dominant. Meanwhile, nomadic Turkic-speaking groups in Central Asia like Kazakhs and Kyrgyz continue to resemble their Siberian forebears. As the Turkic languages continued to spread, they arrived into the heavily populated region of Anatolia, which had long been a crossroads of many different cultures. Turkic languages became dominant there, giving rise to modern Turkish and Azeri. It's misleading that most people look to populous countries like Turkey and Uzbekistan to assume that they represent a “Turkic race” - These areas are still in large part genetically tied to the first agrarian settlers who arrived there after the Ice Age, overlapped with the countless ethnic groups that passed through throughout history. There is some Siberian Turkic input in Anatolia, of course, which is most visible in isolated highland populations.
But why do keep people saying that turks, azerbaijanis, uzbeks etc don't represent the turkic people because they are mixed? Siberian turks, kazakhs and kyrgyz people look the way they do because they are heavily mixed with mongols so according to you they too shouldn't represent the turkic ethnicity. Every ethnicity in this world is influenced by others so by your logic no one actually can fully represent his own nationlity which is dumb. (sry i don't mean to insult you but english is not my native language so i don't know how to express myself) turks, azerbaijanis, turkmens etc origins are turkic,they do speak a turkic language, their culture and traditions are turkic and they feel turkic so they ARE turkic. It can't and shouldn't be defined by your genes as no one could claim that he is a certain ethnicity then
The funny thing with the word "race" is that it can mean 2 different things: 1) In a biological sense it would mean that all Turkic people are more related to each other than to any outside group. That doesn't really work because in different regions they have mixed with different other ethicities and a Turk from Istanbul will typically be more similar to a Greek and a Yakut from Siberia typically more similar to a Mongol genetically than both are to each other. As shin chan already pointed out, the same is true for all "races". 2) In a political sense race is the culture or ethnicity you self-identify with.
You're right about christian Middle Easterners often identifying as white. I am an Armenian American, but since Armenians have relatively fair skin, and are generally christian, I consider myself white on stuff like surveys and applications.
Armenia belongs to the Caucasus and not to the Middle East. Don't get me wrong, there are similarities with the Middle East, but also with Europe, because it lies between the two.
so algeria who is 30min away from spain and italy by plain is in the same region as afghanistan? HAHAHA WTF we are north africans and our region is north africa, not middle east, not arab world.
@@xbfdx988 Here comes the SJW. Mate, don't believe those stupid shit they say in the media. Make your own opinion ffs. "Someone had to say it". Y'all say it all the time. Why do you anti-islamists act like apologetic realists? Y'all clearly ain't
Shafin Hanif ikr there are tons of non Islamic bad people and criminals and even murdurers but no one talks shit about the whole non Muslim community just because they are the same religion like those bad people
Arab is a culture not a race, like Hispanic You can be black and Arab or you could be white and Arab and any shade in between. If you are culturally Arab and speak Arabic then you are an Arab. In Jordan I saw Arabs who looked black and I saw Arabs that looked white and they were all just as Arabic as anyone else, they ate the same food and spoke the same language and understood the same culture. It’s as simple as that Just like in Latin America you have people of all shades and colors and they are all part of the same Hispanic culture
@@johanruiz3422 no actually it is not. It is an ethnicity that spans racial groups like I said. There are Arabs with tight kinky hair and dark skin and there are Arabs with red hair and blue eyes and they are all equally Arab. Sorry if that doesn’t agree with your pre conceived notion of what an Arab is or isn’t but that’s the truth. Just like Sammy Sosa and Jennifer Lopez are both equally Hispanic even though one is black and the other is white. You cannot deny that they are both Latino
Most of them i consider caucasoid or white, it doesn´t mean they are european, but they have the similar craniofacial features, it would be the same race. Here in Brazil where there is the biggest italian and lebanese diaspora, i´d say that my family members and other mainly italian people looks more like the lebanese offspring here than with people of german and slavic origin, we are both mediterraneans, evolutive pressure left us with similar skin color different from pink pale skin of northerner peoples, and common ancestry from thousands of years dictates our similar anatomical features. But political, culturally and religiously, there is a big difference among these peoples.
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
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.
I’m Berber from Morocco, born and raised in France. I haven’t tried to hide anything about my race, but everyone questions if I (am my family) are really Moroccans because we look Caucasian. (Light skin/eye colour/blond-ish. Long story short, North African and very genetically diverse
Here is a list of the Middle East: Egypt Iraq Saudi Arabia Iran Cyprus Turkey Yemen Oman Kuwait Syria Israel/Palestine Lebanon United Arab Emirates (UAE) Qatar Bahrain Jordan This is the Middle East, but you combined it with the caucus region, these are two different regions, the caucus region consists of Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan, and Afghanistan and Pakistan are part of Central Asia, in fact, all the countries that end with “-stan” are the central Asian countries, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, etc, your video was on point, but you mixed some regions into the Middle East
Depends on who you ask since there is no objective test for so called "race". Depending on who you ask parts of the Middle East are in Europe, parts are in Africa and most of it is in Asia. But geography, national borders and race are different things. In the USA the federal government says North African, and Middle Eastern ancestry puts you for the racial category known as white- along with most American hispanics/ latinos. Of course when it comes to choosing a box on a government form you can pick whichever you like- no one can prove you are wrong. When the U.S. Census comes out every ten years the race categories to choose from are different from the census before. Since they change the wording of the question and the categories to choose from the result can differ significantly from one census to the next.
Good video and observation But the pictures you showed including the men on your thumbnail does not protray real middle easterns. for example this picture is of Nubaian people of Egypt who are pure African and look nothing like middle-easterns/arabs 0:09 Greetings from Amman, Jordan :)
@Masaman if you read latest National Geographic project its gonna help you a lot the Whole north Africa are North African race the Arabs is very minority in north Africa countries ( Egypt , Libya , Tunisa , Algeria , morcco
Libya and Algeria have high Arabian presence. Espically Libya the majority are Arabians. In countries like Morocco, algeria and Tunisia the berbers usually live in the deserts such as the tuareg berbers and some live in mountains, only there berber is spoken. Thats why the majority of berbers that moved to cities became Arabized because of mixing with arabians in big cities and don't even know the language. The only countries that remaind fully ethniclly berber are Mauritania and Mali
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.
+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.
If people can understand speaking a certain language or wearing a certain dress does not define your DNA. To get into complexity... just your appearance does not display all your DNA. Meaning you may look white European with blonde hair blue eyes but have more african traits (genes) otherwise that are not visible in your skin, hair or eye color. So you will be more African than European and still appear white. Humanity has a long way to go to understand there is a huge difference in what I do/look like than what DNA i carry.
Lol... I don't think I should waste my time on a "dumb fuck" wannabe like you anymore. You don't know anything about what you are talking. Go to school kid. Next time when you will have a masters degree in genetics, we may talk again.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Everything you’re explaining is so accurate and logical.
Is it though? Or am I missing the sarcasm? He tries to sound “smart” but then say some stupid ish. Plus his fake monotone announcer voice is contrived and/or pretentious
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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'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
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!
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...
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
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?
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.
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
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
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
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
Balochi is pronounced like "Baa low chee."
And Tamil is pronounce "Taa mill."
And Iran is pronounce "Ee ron."
:)
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!
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.
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.
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 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 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
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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 😵..
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 videos man, I appreciate the effort you must make doing research. Keep it up and thanks for all the great content.
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
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.
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.
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"?
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.
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
This american race obsession has to stop. Talking about race is pointless. There's so many cultures and ethnicities. It's distespectful to break it down to "white" or "black"
I agree
@Melvin CarterYes, but ethnicity is not the same as "race"... My ethnicity is Hispanic since I was born in a nation colonized by Spain and Spanish is my native language... however, "Hispanic" isn't my race... yet some people think that "Hispanic" is a race... I don't really know what's my race.... My sister took an ancestry test and she found out that she was 60% southern European, 30% south american native american and 10% other races. I think people who are so mixed are unlikely of feeling identified with a specific race..
@Melvin Carter question??? Which jewish people are you referring too?
@Melvin Carter that's because they don't even know there history of Israel.
@Melvin Carter I hear you... You have to keep the faith and do research on the truth. IT'S THERE... What made it easier for was, looking at the bible from a historical perspective. Not so much a religious perspective. Then it will all makes sense and fall in place.
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
"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
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 😂😂😅
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 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?
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.
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.
And most Turks are actually Greeks and Indo-Europeans that assimilated to Turkish culture, that's why its extremely hard to understand whether someone is Turkish or Greek or Bulgarian. For example, I am Turkish and I look just like Alexander which is extremely cool!
Talk for yourself we are not Greek we have eastern rome DNA like %25
Bu this doesnt make us Greeks
Turks are mostly West Asian people
A mixture of Caucasia and middle east
Orkhanreis There is no such thing called Eastern Rome DNA. Greeks are not a pure race, they are a mixture of certain races and we have pretty much the same percentages! And in some cases like Aegean and Marmara, Turks living there are closer to Greeks then Turks living in the eastern side of the country!
@@melihism on the other
hand some of cases in Agean Side
Contain very high amount central asia
@@melihism düşündüğünüz kadar fazla değil Rum(Yunan italian) genleri Türkiye çapında %25 lik küçük bir bölümü temsil ediyor %75 West Asia İran orta doğu orta asya
@@melihism özellikle testi yaptiranlar Rum kökenli olma ihtimali olan veya kafalarında soru işareti olanlar Türkler biliyor kendini açıkçası ben yaptırsam West Asia orta asia ve birazcikta İtalyan çıkabilir
Çünkü bulunduğumuz bölgede italyan yüksek çıkıyor
"middle easterners" is really too large to be considered a single group. You have Semitic and Aryan genetic influences as well as some amount of Asian ethnic groups. So you can go from Lebanon which is almost entirely semitic to Pakistan which is almost entirely Aryan. The result is naturally a plethora of ethnic groups throughout the region. Probably why they have so much conflict. Well that and foreign involvement instigated and perpetuated by a certain group of people.
For anyone splitting hairs about my use of the term Aryan instead of proto-indo-european, Aryan is the historically used term and there's no real reason not to use it. I understand some people associate it with Nazis and also Inidans don't care for it or Aryan invasian theory. I don't consider those reasons to not use the term though, especially since it's much shorter. I do find the relationship between Nazi Germany and India before and during ww2 slightly ironic if only for their disagreement on this issue. Either way for clarification I consider Aryan to be any people that speak an indo-european language.
The term middle east refers to European colonization. As u mentioned, one major factor is the arena for war games, making profits for the weapons industry, and the oil, a precious commodity over the past hundred years. Divide and conquer is also an age old tactic. With the invention of the chariot, many Aryan tribes swept westward towards Europe, and southward toward India, around 2500bce. That's why the languages from Hindi to Celtic are related, the indoeuropean language family. Hitler's Aryan theory, was white skinned blonde blue eyed people going from Germany towards Russia, when it is now understood to go the other direction, and not necessarily uniform phenotypes, but perhaps more light skinned. Although the oldest homosapien bones have been found in east Africa around 100,000 years ago. Skin color is due to pigmentation. Lighter skinned people have been living in places with less sunshine for millennia.
@@raminkhajavi9513 well said. I have to disagree with the last bit about the earliest humans in East Africa. I actually disagree with even the phrasing "earliest humans" though I'm aware it's commonly used.
It's my understanding that out of Africa theory was debunked some time ago. The fact it hasn't been widely corrected is because of political correctness infiltrating academia. The leading theory now is that cro-magnon is our common ancestor and through prolific migration mated with local hominids to produce the local ethnic groups you see today that are well suited for their environment. This is the only explanation for why sub Saharan Africans are the only humans without neanderthal dna AND also have dna from a yet to be identified archaic hominid not seen in any other population.
I'm a big fan of the indo-european language family. The Pinnacle of the family in my opinion is Sanskrit which is just beautiful. I've been trying to learn it to read the Vedas in their original form, but it's quite difficult. I'm under the impression sanskrit is the most similar language all indo-european languages are derived from.
Something I've theorized is that there is an original indo-european religion too. There are certain similarities between Norse, Greek/Roman, Egyptian, and Hindu theology that suggest a common influence. I'm sure there's likely been someone smarter than me come to this conclusion and find more accurate proofs.
@@alexhurt7919 that's strange, my long reply last night is not here! I don't believe the out of Africa, for homosapien, has been debunked. Although, it's always good to question. Many years ago, a molar tooth of mine was taken out at a free clinic, next to a prestigious university that I attended. The guy said no, when I asked if I could keep it. Next day it was on front page of the newspaper, a professor from that same school, had discovered it in Ethiopia, new name of australopethicus remidus! Also, the indoeuropean language family was coined by a British judge in Calcutta in the late 1700s, when he noticed similarities between the languages. Jones (?) Also, in terms of similarities in religions and mythologies, Joseph Campbell was the best!
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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..
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?
you should also add that SLAVIC isn't a race/ ethnicity either. its just a language that's it
@@thotslayer9914 Please go educate yourself.
People of middle east and north africa are WHITE and it is not something what you can agree or disagree they just are and it doesn't matter that their skin isn't white(Chinese people's race is yellow and it doesn't mean that it is their skin color) and if someone still disagree with me then just go to book store and buy geography book. Persian, Arabs, Jews, Barberians they are all white. Once again, race isn't something which with people can identify. You are just who you are .
Very true but afro-centric assholes love to make lies and this dumbass in the video doesn't know anything about real Middle Eastern people(Arabs, Persians, Turks, Armenians).
I am Arab and proud would never want to be anything else. Alhamdulilah
This is wrong replace arab and make it muslim and proud
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
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 ?
I think the majority of the middle easterners are : 70% white 20 % black 10 % Far east
the result is the best mix race , beautiful , unify the best in one .
Thank you for your videos. They are well presented and informative. Keep up the good work!
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
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.
There is only ONE race, THE HUMAN RACE. Race has no biological meaning whatsoever.
We are human with different skin tones. I dont know why people find this so hard.
Then how come scientists can determine the race of a deceased body?
Human is a 'species' not a race
“Race has no biological meaning whatsoever “
Yes it does
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.
As usual fantastic video with a great subject . Would love to see more on the mid east specifically Turkey and North Africa .
Wanted to watch this from a very long time
Turkic isn't really a race. It's just a language family that spread across a very large area. You can see this quite clearly in Central Asia, where the various Turkic-speaking populations are very, very different. The origin of the Turkic languages is in northeastern Asia, around the area of modern Siberia and Mongolia, and you can see the Turkic-speaking populations from this area like the Sakha, Altay, Khakas, and Tuvans look very similar to Mongolians and other indigenous northeast Asians. From there, they spread into Central Asia, where the languages spread to the large existing populations of agriculturalists, making the Uzbeks and Uyghurs, who are actually a mix of many different ethnic groups that inhabited or moved into the region before, during, and after the Turkic languages became dominant. Meanwhile, nomadic Turkic-speaking groups in Central Asia like Kazakhs and Kyrgyz continue to resemble their Siberian forebears. As the Turkic languages continued to spread, they arrived into the heavily populated region of Anatolia, which had long been a crossroads of many different cultures. Turkic languages became dominant there, giving rise to modern Turkish and Azeri. It's misleading that most people look to populous countries like Turkey and Uzbekistan to assume that they represent a “Turkic race” - These areas are still in large part genetically tied to the first agrarian settlers who arrived there after the Ice Age, overlapped with the countless ethnic groups that passed through throughout history. There is some Siberian Turkic input in Anatolia, of course, which is most visible in isolated highland populations.
Hex Kobold No they are a race.
we're oghuz Turks
Hex Kobold Also why does it bother you that we're Turkic Turks
He did a video on this.
But why do keep people saying that turks, azerbaijanis, uzbeks etc don't represent the turkic people because they are mixed? Siberian turks, kazakhs and kyrgyz people look the way they do because they are heavily mixed with mongols so according to you they too shouldn't represent the turkic ethnicity. Every ethnicity in this world is influenced by others so by your logic no one actually can fully represent his own nationlity which is dumb. (sry i don't mean to insult you but english is not my native language so i don't know how to express myself) turks, azerbaijanis, turkmens etc origins are turkic,they do speak a turkic language, their culture and traditions are turkic and they feel turkic so they ARE turkic. It can't and shouldn't be defined by your genes as no one could claim that he is a certain ethnicity then
The funny thing with the word "race" is that it can mean 2 different things:
1) In a biological sense it would mean that all Turkic people are more related to each other than to any outside group. That doesn't really work because in different regions they have mixed with different other ethicities and a Turk from Istanbul will typically be more similar to a Greek and a Yakut from Siberia typically more similar to a Mongol genetically than both are to each other. As shin chan already pointed out, the same is true for all "races".
2) In a political sense race is the culture or ethnicity you self-identify with.
You're right about christian Middle Easterners often identifying as white. I am an Armenian American, but since Armenians have relatively fair skin, and are generally christian, I consider myself white on stuff like surveys and applications.
All middle easterners are white in usa.
USA racial policy messed up
Armenia belongs to the Caucasus and not to the Middle East. Don't get me wrong, there are similarities with the Middle East, but also with Europe, because it lies between the two.
Most Christians want to be labeled the same race as Jesus so it's expected.
so algeria who is 30min away from spain and italy by plain is in the same region as afghanistan? HAHAHA WTF
we are north africans and our region is north africa, not middle east, not arab world.
No it is the arab world, like it or not :/
@@moetezouelhazi5699 north africans are amazighs not arabs. Like it or not.
@@ewno1129 no they are a mix of lof of population , arab, amazigh, assyrians, black, or white, i have arab and amazigh blood so i'm arab too
@@wardrabhi2967 You *only* are a mix of people , aka *ugly* , don't speak on behalf of others.
You haven't mentioned kurds at all,we are at least more than 40 million !!! Respect for all nations
The presenter has taken a complicated subject and managed to explain it very well.
Im syrian and I don’t look white.
ChinaGaveMeBlueBalls no Bro the men in syrians their skin color is Brown tanned bc they work 24/7 in the sun and it gives also black Syrians
ChinaGaveMeBlueBalls and maybe the USA census in 2022 make a own race for middle eastern and northafricans it’s called mena
ChinaGaveMeBlueBalls Bro I talk about our skin color
Assyrians have a fairer skin than arab syrians i believe
I'm iraqi and i also don't look white
Thanks, great informative video...
1:27 "Most of you know how I feel about Islam..."
What?
@@xbfdx988 Here comes the SJW. Mate, don't believe those stupid shit they say in the media. Make your own opinion ffs. "Someone had to say it". Y'all say it all the time. Why do you anti-islamists act like apologetic realists? Y'all clearly ain't
Shafin Hanif ikr there are tons of non Islamic bad people and criminals and even murdurers but no one talks shit about the whole non Muslim community just because they are the same religion like those bad people
I'ts dumb just like Christianity...fighting each other over a thought of thin air.
xbertocoaylax cristians are bad to if u were a real cristian i would,t dissrespect other religions
@@gumonmyshuCatholic is NOT christianity!!!! They killed still today, the real christians!!!
Educational, well done, but don't forgot the Kurds, you have over 50 million of them in the Middle East
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!
I love Your content mate, no disrespect.
Arab is a culture not a race, like Hispanic
You can be black and Arab or you could be white and Arab and any shade in between. If you are culturally Arab and speak Arabic then you are an Arab. In Jordan I saw Arabs who looked black and I saw Arabs that looked white and they were all just as Arabic as anyone else, they ate the same food and spoke the same language and understood the same culture. It’s as simple as that
Just like in Latin America you have people of all shades and colors and they are all part of the same Hispanic culture
So Arab isn’t a race lol .
@@johanruiz3422 no actually it is not. It is an ethnicity that spans racial groups like I said. There are Arabs with tight kinky hair and dark skin and there are Arabs with red hair and blue eyes and they are all equally Arab. Sorry if that doesn’t agree with your pre conceived notion of what an Arab is or isn’t but that’s the truth.
Just like Sammy Sosa and Jennifer Lopez are both equally Hispanic even though one is black and the other is white. You cannot deny that they are both Latino
@@attatawil Jennifer Lopez does not look black at all! She might only be part black but then again she is racially black nor does she look black 😆
Most of them i consider caucasoid or white, it doesn´t mean they are european, but they have the similar craniofacial features, it would be the same race. Here in Brazil where there is the biggest italian and lebanese diaspora, i´d say that my family members and other mainly italian people looks more like the lebanese offspring here than with people of german and slavic origin, we are both mediterraneans, evolutive pressure left us with similar skin color different from pink pale skin of northerner peoples, and common ancestry from thousands of years dictates our similar anatomical features. But political, culturally and religiously, there is a big difference among these peoples.
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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Good insightful video!
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
I’m Berber from Morocco, born and raised in France. I haven’t tried to hide anything about my race, but everyone questions if I (am my family) are really Moroccans because we look Caucasian. (Light skin/eye colour/blond-ish.
Long story short, North African and very genetically diverse
Masaman is the go to expert on demographics. Each time I learn something new from his videos. Keep up the good work.
Here is a list of the Middle East:
Egypt
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Iran
Cyprus
Turkey
Yemen
Oman
Kuwait
Syria
Israel/Palestine
Lebanon
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Qatar
Bahrain
Jordan
This is the Middle East, but you combined it with the caucus region, these are two different regions, the caucus region consists of Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan, and Afghanistan and Pakistan are part of Central Asia, in fact, all the countries that end with “-stan” are the central Asian countries, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, etc, your video was on point, but you mixed some regions into the Middle East
Egypt is part of the Middle East region, it is also North African, these are regions, it is “inter-regional” so to speak
@ ok, you do you
Depends on who you ask since there is no objective test for so called "race". Depending on who you ask parts of the Middle East are in Europe, parts are in Africa and most of it is in Asia. But geography, national borders and race are different things. In the USA the federal government says North African, and Middle Eastern ancestry puts you for the racial category known as white- along with most American hispanics/ latinos. Of course when it comes to choosing a box on a government form you can pick whichever you like- no one can prove you are wrong. When the U.S. Census comes out every ten years the race categories to choose from are different from the census before. Since they change the wording of the question and the categories to choose from the result can differ significantly from one census to the next.
Much of these areas are Caucasian. People do not realize that Caucasians range from white to dark brown.
Good video and observation
But the pictures you showed including the men on your thumbnail does not protray real middle easterns. for example this picture is of Nubaian people of Egypt who are pure African and look nothing like middle-easterns/arabs 0:09
Greetings from Amman, Jordan :)
Thank you. The guys in the thumbnail are Sudanese Arabs, I believe Nubians look way way darker than Egyptians or Sudanese.
@Masaman if you read latest National Geographic project its gonna help you a lot the Whole north Africa are North African race the Arabs is very minority in north Africa countries ( Egypt , Libya , Tunisa , Algeria , morcco
Libya and Algeria have high Arabian presence. Espically Libya the majority are Arabians. In countries like Morocco, algeria and Tunisia the berbers usually live in the deserts such as the tuareg berbers and some live in mountains, only there berber is spoken. Thats why the majority of berbers that moved to cities became Arabized because of mixing with arabians in big cities and don't even know the language.
The only countries that remaind fully ethniclly berber are Mauritania and Mali
Very interesting and definitely plausible.
I knew from your looks that you have middle eastern Genetics..
His mother was Iranian
Mediterranean
I tought of caucasian region
I know many people that look like him and none of them are middle eastern. It’s weird
Naim Ishtiak Ahmed half Iranian
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.
I like to know how you feel about Islam, by the way I am an African-American Muslim.
On an honest note, love your videos, very interesting.
If people can understand speaking a certain language or wearing a certain dress does not define your DNA.
To get into complexity... just your appearance does not display all your DNA. Meaning you may look white European with blonde hair blue eyes but have more african traits (genes) otherwise that are not visible in your skin, hair or eye color. So you will be more African than European and still appear white.
Humanity has a long way to go to understand there is a huge difference in what I do/look like than what DNA i carry.
Arz F. And what was the point you made with your dumb comment smart pants?
Lol... I don't think I should waste my time on a "dumb fuck" wannabe like you anymore. You don't know anything about what you are talking. Go to school kid. Next time when you will have a masters degree in genetics, we may talk again.
Arz F. Not necessarily. It takes relatively few genes for skin and eye colour. There is so much more info in your DNA.