Ok this can be the stupidest question but those Northwestern African people really considered themselves Arab?
denayz on
Are people living in North Africa considered to be Arab? As I know that, Egyptians do not consider themselves to be Arab im sure other nations do not either.
squidgytree on
Is Arab really a single ethnic-group?
ZofianSaint273 on
How much of Han Chinese is assimilation? I know there are some groups called Cantonese but their region is highlighted with red as well
Pfeffersack2 on
If we call Han Chinese as a singular ethnicity (which it is not) then we might as well count Slavic, Germanic, Latin, etc.
Pineloko on
Arabic speakers are all 1 ethnic group as much as all latinos are 1 ethnic group (they’re not)
McSionnaigh on
If you regard Arabs as a single group, then you should also regard Hindustanis and Anglophone whites as a single group.
azhder on
TIL: English, American, Australian – all the same ethnic group
littlegipply on
Bengali being 3rd largest is surprising
Wormfeathers on
Arab is not ethnic-group but a political group.
BigDong1142 on
I’m Lebanese and I don’t particularly see myself in the same ethnic group as Moroccans or people from the peninsula. We’re Levantine shared with most Syrians, Jordanians and Palestinians.
vperron81 on
There’s a difference between speaking Arabic and being Arab
4tegon on
Arab conquest was a disaster.
Intrepid_Deal_3604 on
I imagine it’s widely debated, but I see Arab as a panethnicity, like Hispanic, of which there are over 600 million, and not an ethnic group.
ohyaa_ on
“Minorities” 🌈
_ghost_91 on
If we are accepting arabs, are we also accepting christian latinos?
WorldlyImpression390 on
This is stupid data
__Tornado__ on
We Egyptians aren’t arab. Neither ethnically, nor culturally. We’re ethnically coptic, including muslims and Christians. Egypt is the second most monoethnic country in the world after Korea.
It’s actually offensive to call us Arabs!
Lucky-Substance23 on
Post is making the common mixup between ethnic and cultural. Egypt is culturally Arab but definitely not ethnically Arab (a small minority of Egyptians are however).
The addition of Arab in its official name „Arab Republic of Egypt“ has historical reasons but suffice to say, not all Egyptians are happy with that. Egypt has a strong national identity and in my opinion supercedes any of its other identities (Arabic cultutre, Islamic, African, Mediterranean). It really should be „The Republic of Egypt“ or „The State of Egypt“
SoftwareSource on
Aren’t there around 360 million Slavic people in the world?
marijuanaislife on
As a Saudi, I don’t consider North Africans to be Arabs….you have to be Middle Eastern to be Arab.
GovernmentBig2749 on
Laughs in slavic

ashraf_bashir on
Egyptians are not Arabs same for north Africans. They got invaded and conquered by Arabs who lived in the Arabian Peninsula
nivh_de on
There are around 450 Million Europeans living in Europe today and in total around 1.1 billion Europeans, if you include the descendants like in USA, Canada, Australia and elsewhere.
Large_Command_1288 on
This just goes to show how fertile the Bay of Bengal is. I mean that mostly in terms of the land itself
HalkidikiAnanas on
If „Arabs“ is an ethnic group, then so is „Europeans“ and that „ethnic group“ is about 15% of the global population, or about 1.2 billion people. About 15% of humans are „of European descent“, which for this purpose has the same ethnic validity as „Arabs“
__Tornado__ on
Egyptians are predominantly copts, including both muslims and Christians. Egyptians aren’t arabs. Egypt is the second most monoethnic country in the world!
The majority of muslims in Egypt are Christian converts, just like the Christians were converted from the old Egyptian religions.
The question of Coptic identity was never raised before the rise of pan-Arabism under Nasser in the early 1950s. Up to that point, both Egyptian Muslims and Egyptian Christians viewed themselves as only Egyptians without any Arab sentiment (Deighton, H. S. „The Arab Middle East and the Modern World“, International Affairs, vol. xxii, no. 4 (October 1946), p. 519.)
We are definitely not Arabs, not historically nor culturally. We only share the language with them, and even then, a huge chuck of Egyptian Arabic is derived from Coptic and written in Arabic. The only time we were called Arabs in Egypt’s extended history of more than 6,000 years was during the Pan-Arabism movement led by Nasser.
It was stated that the most extensive and comprehensive study, conducted by Egyptian hands with the participation of specialized medical institutions, Cairo University, and the Scientific Research Center in 2020, showed conclusive results revealing genetic similarities between Muslims and Christians across Egypt. This indicates that both groups descend from the same ancient ancestors.
Based on the study, the results demonstrated significant genetic homogeneity between the two ethnic groups, meaning that both are linked to the same ancestors.
Abdel Hadi said that all this information confirms the continuity of Egypt’s population and that modern Egyptians are descendants of their ancient ancestors.
According to the practical study reviewed by *Al Arabiya Net*, the goal was to study the relationship between allele frequencies (an allele is a variant form of a gene) at nine short genetic loci and their tandem repeats (STRs) (D3S1358, VWA, FGA, THO1, TPOX, CSF1PO, D5S818, D13S317, and D7S820) for the two groups, representing Egypt’s two main ethnic groups.
Abdel Hadi mentioned that genetic studies on modern Egyptians, using samples from various regions, showed great similarity with ancient Egyptian mummies.
He added, „Various studies have proven the continuity between modern and ancient Egyptians. The analysis of Trephina was close to the mummies and from the same genetic pool. Several scientific centers also confirmed a significant match between Muslim and Christian Egyptians, with both tracing back to the same ancestors.“
is this stupid ? this gotta be stupid ? did they forgot to count the asian
blobby9 on
The math on the Arab part isn’t working. Other Arab countries is 243 million people. But this doesn’t include Egypt, Algeria nor Saudi Arabia. So what countries are they referring to that have that high a population ?
No_Artichoke_4353 on
Punjabi? Slavs? Awadhis?
Eastern_king_2005 on
I’m muslim egyptian and i don’t identify as arab at all
Ok-Brother-8295 on
The two largest Arab groups aren’t arabs, nice.
HarryLewisPot on
If you’re going to remove Tibet and Xinjiang from China, you should remove Kurdish and Amazigh majority areas from the Arab World.
Mean_Satisfaction436 on
just out of curiousity. why are they so crowded? is it because they have so much children?
Particular-Tie-3197 on
What about slavic people?
Inevitable-Push-8061 on
Merging all Arabs together? Then why not do the same for Turkic peoples as well, who also have a total population of around 450 million?
Deault on
Most people from the Maghreb would not agree that they are Arabs. Sharing a religion doesn’t mean sharing an ethnic group.
rasvoja on
Slavs? And not all NAfricans are Arabs
Available_Cod_6735 on
Fun fact: of the ten countries with largest Muslim population- only one is Arab.
Empty-Firefighter675 on
That you for this post. It does not make any sense as you can read in several other comments. Please delete.
Hanmanchu on
What about Slavic? Latin American? Brazilian? Indonesian?
vagobond45 on
I think largest ethnic group might be missing, I wonder what is it:)?
SaltyFlavors on
Arabs and Han did it through assimilation.
Bengalis just be fuckin tho
bikbar1 on
The bengalese are the only organic one. The Arabs and the Hans are mostly a collection of various ethnic groups forced together for centuries.
Best-Ad-6174 on
Syrians are genetically closer to Italians and Greeks than to Saudis
WellOkayMaybe on
Arabs on that map are not an ethnic group, they’re a linguistic group. The ethnic diversity across those Arab-speaking countries is mind-blowing. To say the Algerians are the same ethnicity as the Saudis is ridiculous. Overlaps may exist, but that’s like saying „the US has Chinese people too, so should. Be colored as China“.
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Ok this can be the stupidest question but those Northwestern African people really considered themselves Arab?
Are people living in North Africa considered to be Arab? As I know that, Egyptians do not consider themselves to be Arab im sure other nations do not either.
Is Arab really a single ethnic-group?
How much of Han Chinese is assimilation? I know there are some groups called Cantonese but their region is highlighted with red as well
If we call Han Chinese as a singular ethnicity (which it is not) then we might as well count Slavic, Germanic, Latin, etc.
Arabic speakers are all 1 ethnic group as much as all latinos are 1 ethnic group (they’re not)
If you regard Arabs as a single group, then you should also regard Hindustanis and Anglophone whites as a single group.
TIL: English, American, Australian – all the same ethnic group
Bengali being 3rd largest is surprising
Arab is not ethnic-group but a political group.
I’m Lebanese and I don’t particularly see myself in the same ethnic group as Moroccans or people from the peninsula. We’re Levantine shared with most Syrians, Jordanians and Palestinians.
There’s a difference between speaking Arabic and being Arab
Arab conquest was a disaster.
I imagine it’s widely debated, but I see Arab as a panethnicity, like Hispanic, of which there are over 600 million, and not an ethnic group.
“Minorities” 🌈
If we are accepting arabs, are we also accepting christian latinos?
This is stupid data
We Egyptians aren’t arab. Neither ethnically, nor culturally. We’re ethnically coptic, including muslims and Christians. Egypt is the second most monoethnic country in the world after Korea.
It’s actually offensive to call us Arabs!
Post is making the common mixup between ethnic and cultural. Egypt is culturally Arab but definitely not ethnically Arab (a small minority of Egyptians are however).
The addition of Arab in its official name „Arab Republic of Egypt“ has historical reasons but suffice to say, not all Egyptians are happy with that. Egypt has a strong national identity and in my opinion supercedes any of its other identities (Arabic cultutre, Islamic, African, Mediterranean). It really should be „The Republic of Egypt“ or „The State of Egypt“
Aren’t there around 360 million Slavic people in the world?
As a Saudi, I don’t consider North Africans to be Arabs….you have to be Middle Eastern to be Arab.
Laughs in slavic

Egyptians are not Arabs same for north Africans. They got invaded and conquered by Arabs who lived in the Arabian Peninsula
There are around 450 Million Europeans living in Europe today and in total around 1.1 billion Europeans, if you include the descendants like in USA, Canada, Australia and elsewhere.
This just goes to show how fertile the Bay of Bengal is. I mean that mostly in terms of the land itself
If „Arabs“ is an ethnic group, then so is „Europeans“ and that „ethnic group“ is about 15% of the global population, or about 1.2 billion people. About 15% of humans are „of European descent“, which for this purpose has the same ethnic validity as „Arabs“
Egyptians are predominantly copts, including both muslims and Christians. Egyptians aren’t arabs. Egypt is the second most monoethnic country in the world!
The majority of muslims in Egypt are Christian converts, just like the Christians were converted from the old Egyptian religions.
The question of Coptic identity was never raised before the rise of pan-Arabism under Nasser in the early 1950s. Up to that point, both Egyptian Muslims and Egyptian Christians viewed themselves as only Egyptians without any Arab sentiment (Deighton, H. S. „The Arab Middle East and the Modern World“, International Affairs, vol. xxii, no. 4 (October 1946), p. 519.)
We are definitely not Arabs, not historically nor culturally. We only share the language with them, and even then, a huge chuck of Egyptian Arabic is derived from Coptic and written in Arabic. The only time we were called Arabs in Egypt’s extended history of more than 6,000 years was during the Pan-Arabism movement led by Nasser.
[DNA analysis proves that Egyptians are not Arabs](https://www.egyptindependent.com/dna-analysis-proves-egyptians-are-not-arabs/#:~:text=DNA%20analysis%20proves%20that%20Egyptians%20are%20not%20Arabs.,and%20the%20overall%20origins%20of%20the%20human%20population.)
It was stated that the most extensive and comprehensive study, conducted by Egyptian hands with the participation of specialized medical institutions, Cairo University, and the Scientific Research Center in 2020, showed conclusive results revealing genetic similarities between Muslims and Christians across Egypt. This indicates that both groups descend from the same ancient ancestors.
Based on the study, the results demonstrated significant genetic homogeneity between the two ethnic groups, meaning that both are linked to the same ancestors.
Abdel Hadi said that all this information confirms the continuity of Egypt’s population and that modern Egyptians are descendants of their ancient ancestors.
According to the practical study reviewed by *Al Arabiya Net*, the goal was to study the relationship between allele frequencies (an allele is a variant form of a gene) at nine short genetic loci and their tandem repeats (STRs) (D3S1358, VWA, FGA, THO1, TPOX, CSF1PO, D5S818, D13S317, and D7S820) for the two groups, representing Egypt’s two main ethnic groups.
Abdel Hadi mentioned that genetic studies on modern Egyptians, using samples from various regions, showed great similarity with ancient Egyptian mummies.
He added, „Various studies have proven the continuity between modern and ancient Egyptians. The analysis of Trephina was close to the mummies and from the same genetic pool. Several scientific centers also confirmed a significant match between Muslim and Christian Egyptians, with both tracing back to the same ancestors.“
[Source](https://www.alarabiya.net/arab-and-world/egypt/2023/05/20/%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%AA%D9%83%D8%B4%D9%81-%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D8%B3%D8%A4%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%AB%D9%87-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A3%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%9F)
is this stupid ? this gotta be stupid ? did they forgot to count the asian
The math on the Arab part isn’t working. Other Arab countries is 243 million people. But this doesn’t include Egypt, Algeria nor Saudi Arabia. So what countries are they referring to that have that high a population ?
Punjabi? Slavs? Awadhis?
I’m muslim egyptian and i don’t identify as arab at all
The two largest Arab groups aren’t arabs, nice.
If you’re going to remove Tibet and Xinjiang from China, you should remove Kurdish and Amazigh majority areas from the Arab World.
just out of curiousity. why are they so crowded? is it because they have so much children?
What about slavic people?
Merging all Arabs together? Then why not do the same for Turkic peoples as well, who also have a total population of around 450 million?
Most people from the Maghreb would not agree that they are Arabs. Sharing a religion doesn’t mean sharing an ethnic group.
Slavs? And not all NAfricans are Arabs
Fun fact: of the ten countries with largest Muslim population- only one is Arab.
That you for this post. It does not make any sense as you can read in several other comments. Please delete.
What about Slavic? Latin American? Brazilian? Indonesian?
I think largest ethnic group might be missing, I wonder what is it:)?
Arabs and Han did it through assimilation.
Bengalis just be fuckin tho
The bengalese are the only organic one. The Arabs and the Hans are mostly a collection of various ethnic groups forced together for centuries.
Syrians are genetically closer to Italians and Greeks than to Saudis
Arabs on that map are not an ethnic group, they’re a linguistic group. The ethnic diversity across those Arab-speaking countries is mind-blowing. To say the Algerians are the same ethnicity as the Saudis is ridiculous. Overlaps may exist, but that’s like saying „the US has Chinese people too, so should. Be colored as China“.