To what ethnic group do Egyptians belong?

Question

My son says non-white; I am not certain. I am speaking primarily of today's Egyptians, although historical info is interesting as well.

Answer 1

According to the 2000 US census, North Africans (including Egyptians) are considered white.

Answer 2

Ethnic Groups In Egypt

Answer 3

Egypt Ethnic Groups

Answer 4

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To what ethnic group do Egyptians belong?
My son says non-white; I am not certain. I am speaking primarily of today's Egyptians, although historical info is interesting as well.

Answer 5

Related ethnic groups:Berbers, Nubians, Arabs The Egyptians (Egyptian: rmt̪nkm.t; Coptic: ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛⲭⲏⲙⲓ ni.ramenkīmi; Arabic: مِصريّون miṣriyūn; Masri: مَصريين maṣreyyīn) are a North African ethnic group native to Egypt. Egyptian identity is rooted in the lower Nile Valley, the small strip of cultivatable land stretching from the First Cataract to the Mediterranean Sea and enclosed by vast deserts. This unique geography has been the basis of the development of Egyptian society in antiquity.

The Egyptian people have spoken only languages from the northern branch of the Afro-Asiatic family throughout their history, from old Egyptian to today's vernacular Maṣri. Their religion is predominantly Sunni Islam though a significant proportion follow native Sufi orders. A large minority of Egyptians belong to the Coptic Orthodox Church, whose liturgical language, Coptic, is the latest stage of the indigenous Egyptian language.

Answer 6

North Africans are considered white. Today's Egyptians are still Egyptians, but Egypt is full of Arabs, who took over our land and ruined our culture, so they think we're all Arabs. Either way, Arabic, or Egyptian, we're white, which was really dissapointing to find out. I don't know why they don't just put Middle Eastern on applications.

Answer 7

Egyptians are non-white in the sense they aren't westernized...but a lot of them are actually fair in skin color. They are considered part of the middle east or Middle Eastern. They are very conservative people since majority of the country follows Islam. I lived there for 4 years

Answer 8

The Egyptians have their origins from the Semetic Ethnic Race.

Answer 9

It really depends on what you consider to be relevant: race, ethnicity, religion . . . many people will claim any one of those categories as their "ethnic group".

Racially speaking, people who live in Egypt range from "black" to "white". If you want to use old racial classifications that really aren't taken seriously anymore, then you'd say that most Egyptians from the north are "caucasoid" and most from the south are "*******". This doesn't do any justice to the various groups living in Egypt. There are "Mediterraneans", "Arabs", "Nubians" and others, not to mention hundreds of tribal identifications.

Answer 10

Technically, Egyptians are African, although they are grouped into the "Middle-Eastern" culture because their language and culture is so similar to those in the Middle East. Definitely non-white, although if you broke people down into White, Black, Asian, and Hispanic, then they would be considered "White," so to speak.