why people call north Africans Arabs?

Question

their ancestors r barbarian in(algeria morocco tunisia) or amixture of coptics &greeks in(egypt) ofcourse they mixed with arabs but still they have their own roots

oh yeah i think thats tru A

oh yeah i think thats tru Annio

Answer 1

If we're talking mixtures that included byzantine Greeks, any area that borders the Mediterranean sea really also has to pay a nod a Mama Roma. Also, your North African admixture includes a Germanic tribe that was called the Vandals. They ruled in what is now Morocco, Algiers and Tunisia during the fifth and sixth centuries AD. In the Seventh and Eighth centuries, those same regions as well as Egypt were conquered by the Arabs. They remained the dominant influence there until European colonization by Portugal and later France and England starting in the sixteenth century. Everybody is from somewhere else and is a mixture of something. It's so hard to parse out the exact sequence of conquests and colonizations. There a very few peoples that can really claim an ethnic purity. Maybe only the Basque people in Northern Spain. Our National borders are only the merest suggestions of our ethnic pasts. Perhaps its time we relegated the importance of such things to a mere hobbyist's interest in genealogy and history. If we were stop wearing chips on our shoulders about such labels the world might be a happier place.

Answer 2

First you need to determine what defines a person as being an Arab. Being from a specific region does not automatically make one an Arab (for example, the Assyrians, Berbers, Chaldeans, Kurds and Persians are from the Middle East, but are not considered Arabs). While Arabs share a similar language and many customs, not all share a similar religion--NOT all Arabs are Muslim. Arab religions can include Islam, Christianity (including Coptic) , Druze, and Judaism, among several others.

Well, the point I am trying to make is the term Arab is broad and includes a wide variety of people.

The link below provides information geared towards helping people understand who are Arab Americans, but in doing so helps to define who are Arabs in general. It is very interesting.

Answer 3

Arabs are just arabs speakers
Original arabs are close to north african

Answer 4

When some people think of the middle-east, the only word that comes into their mind is Arab. Which is a generalization. Even though, historically speaking, the arab nation was one of the largest occupiers of that general region hundreds of years ago. So, it's not really that horrible of a generalization.

Answer 5

You are right that they are a ethnic mixture, but culturally, religiously and linguistically they have important and sometimes encompassing Arab influences and the culture taken as a whole has a distinct Arab "flavor".
That's why.

Answer 6

I have often wondered that because I had a friend in high school from Egypt that classified herself middle eastern and one in college that classified himself as african or other. I think it may depend on religious background, language, family name, and maybe even looks (skin color, hair texture, etc.), as odd as that may sound. Just a theory. Hope this helps. :)

Answer 7

I think that it is because they speak Arabic.

Answer 8

they speak arabic or were born in saudi arabia

Answer 9

Because "penguin" was already taken...
Had to find a new word and "Arab" was vacant...

Answer 10

1. They are clueless, and 2. they don't care. Just ignore them.