Before you say "Does she look Black?" look at Mariah Carey, Wentworth Miller and Kitt Shapiro.
2006-09-21 16:08:55 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
If they aren't black, how come some of them look Black? See http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/ontheline/explore/journey/algeria/images/algsoc1.jpg
http://www.internationalspecialreports.com/archives/99/algeria/42-1.gif
Some obviously look Arab. Others, mixed.
But it's in AFRICA, right?
2006-09-21 16:27:03 · update #1
I wouldn't have asked if I didn't care. Does it matter though? For what? To me, yes. To you, also yes, or you wouldn't have answered.
2006-09-21 16:28:15 · update #2
The "occasionally Berbers are born with blue eyes" thing isn't evidence they aren't black. My auntie and grandma have blue eyes too. So?
I don't mean white "according to Natl Geographic." There's Natl Geographic and then there's reality. Natl Geographic probably defines Australian Aborigines as white too. Google some pictures of them.
The people I showed links of are Algerian too.
Even if YB weren't Black, some Algerians clearly are. It would be nearly impossible for the Arabs not to have miscegenated with other people of Africa. And I hate dividing Africa into North Africa and subsaharan. That's stupid.
2006-09-21 23:25:29 · update #3
Chit-Chaa
Yes, everyone is familiar with Natl Geographic. Your statement is really the uneducated one. You clearly just don't know much in this area. Saying she doesn't have "******* features" doesn't answer the question, which you clearly didn't read completely. OF COURSE I know some South Africans are Caucasian. But those people are of Dutch extraction and, frankly, they don't really belong in Africa at all. IMO they're not really "from the continent of Africa," but I don't think you can understand that.
Again, consider the Australian Aborigine example. Do you know who they are?
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Study and life.
2006-09-22 17:38:40 · update #4
The vast majority of the White world claims anything on the continent of Africa as their own as they see fit. EVERY county in Africa is apart of it including Algeria. Algerians are African and just like Europe and Asia, Africa contains a wide variety of People of Color all with a single common African Ancestor. Northern Africans are just as African as Southern Africans regardless of what political divisions the Worlds Super Powers place on them. I hate how people pick apart Africa and say this country doesn't belong to it or this one is not apart of it. its absolutely absurd. To answer your question though, if one considers or equates BLACK to African then yes absolutely YB is part BLACK.
2006-09-22 04:30:50 · answer #1 · answered by HONEY 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The average Algerian is racially Causasian albeit of the Mediterranean type. Ethnically, it's overwhelmingly Arab and Berber. Occasionally blue-eyed people are born among the Berbers in the Atlas Mountains, which divide the coast from the Sahara Desert.
I'm not sure where you're going with the "Does she look Black" thing but I will say the "one drop rule" is stupid. I'm not saying that to be liberal or PC or whatever; I'm saying it's stupid because it is.
2006-09-21 23:46:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
no, it doesn't mean that Yasmin is black. just because someone is Algerian doesn't mean they are black. according to National Geographic, there are three races = *******, Mongoloid and Caucasoid. she does not have ******* features. She looks Caucasian to me. did you know that some South Africans are Caucasian? not everyone from the continent of Africa is black.
"there's National Geographic and then there's reality," what a uneducated statement. their stories are based on facts and real experiences - that is reality!
white is a color, not a race.
2006-09-21 23:54:45 · answer #3 · answered by chit-chaat7 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Algerians aren't Black, they're Arab (frequently with some French mixed in, because it used to be a colony of France.)
2006-09-21 23:16:51 · answer #4 · answered by banjuja58 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Not necessarily. Algeria has a significant Arabic population.
2006-09-21 23:16:14 · answer #5 · answered by Martin523 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Algerians are NOT BLACK. The people you mentioned DO show black features. Algerians DO NOT.
2006-09-22 01:23:11 · answer #6 · answered by Matthew V 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Algeria is in Africa,
2006-09-21 23:11:45 · answer #7 · answered by santa s 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
although algeria is in the african continent, i think it is more of a arab country, therefore, she must be part arab, not black.
2006-09-21 23:30:55 · answer #8 · answered by thewayworldturns 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
A bit preoccupied?
2006-09-21 23:44:33 · answer #9 · answered by sendmedaisies 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, it means she is part Algerian.
2006-09-21 23:16:23 · answer #10 · answered by Sorcha 6 · 8⤊ 0⤋