What do middle easterners prefer to be called?

Question

Like what terms do they like and what terms do they do not like.
For example, middle easterners, arab, etc.

*Only answer if you know.
*This is for a cultural diversity project.

This is just a topic I have to answer for OUR PROJECT (It's a group project). Someone answered it like it was something bad. I'm not racist nor will I ever be. There's too much racism already. I just wanted a simple, professional answer. (This is directed to the person who made it a bad racial question. Actually, she sounded racist to me.)

Answer 1

The Arabs are the people - a member of a Semitic speaking people - originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories, who speak Arabic (Yemen - Saudi Arabia - Oman - Kuwait - Bahrain - Qatar - and the United Arab Emirates.

The Hassamies of Jordon and the Sunnis of Iraq also consider themselves Arab. Syrians do as well, But the Turkish would rather be European than Arabic.

At present, most Arabs are Muslims. Sunni Islam dominates in most areas, overwhelmingly so in North Africa; Shia Islam is prevalent in Bahrain, southern Iraq and adjacent parts of Saudi Arabia, southern Lebanon, parts of Syria, northern Yemen, southern Iran and al-Batinah region in Oman. The tiny Druze community, belonging to a secretive offshoot of Islam, is also Arab.

Most people who consider themselves Arabs do so on the basis of the overlap of the political and linguistic definitions. However, some members of groups who meet both criteria reject the identity on the basis of the genealogical and ethno-national definitions; Lebanese Maronites, for example, may reject the Arab label in favor of a narrower Phoenician-Aramaean-Lebanese identity. This is particularly true for the peoples of North Africa; the Muslim Berbers and both Muslim and Coptic Egyptians. Groups using a non-Arabic liturgical language are especially likely to consider themselves non-Arab. Not many people consider themselves Arab on the basis of the political definition without the linguistic one, thus, Kurds or Berbers do not usually identify themselves as Arab - but some do.

Iranians do not, they are Farsi - Persian and consider the Arabs to be a backward tribe when they were the great empire of the world. A few Egyptians view them in a similar manner.

Uzbecks, Turkiks and Kazacks of southern Russia consider themselves to be Turkic, and Asian, as do the Afghans and Pakistans.

Jews from Arab countries – mainly Mizrahi Jews and Yemenite Jews – are today usually not categorised as Arab. Before the 1930s - Arab Jews" (Yehudim ‘Áravim, יהודים ערבים) was sometimes used to describe Jews of the Arab world. The term is rarely used today. The few remaining Jews in the Arab countries reside mostly in Morocco and Tunisia - following the creation of the state of Israel, most of these Jews left or were expelled from their countries of birth and are now mostly concentrated in Israel. Some also immigrated to France (where they form the largest Jewish community, outnumbering European Jews), but relatively few to the United States.

Arab Christians (Asyrian, Coptic, Armenian), make up 9.2% of the population of the Near East. In Lebanon they now number about 39% of the population, in Syria they make up about 10 to 15%, in the Palestinian territories the figure is 3.8%, and in Israel Arab Christians constitute 2.1% (or roughly 10% of the Israeli Arab population). In Egypt, they constitute about 6% of the population. Most North and South American and Australian Arabs (about two-thirds) are Arab Christians, particularly from Syria, the Palestinian territories, and Lebanon.

Answer 2

ok you may nonetheless offend some, (because of the fact of their very own hypocrisy) yet maximum human beings of the middle East are Semitic--- SEMITIC the two the Jews and the Arabs communicate Semitic languages, and for the main area come from Semitic peoples. Calling a Jew an Arab isn't a stable concept (or vice versa) yet the two are Semitic. on the different hand Turkic human beings and Iranians and Afghans, and Uzbeks, and Kurds etc. etc. are no longer Semitic, they are Aryans and Caucasians and significant Asian and Mongols. Language of foundation is the main secure (however nonetheless no longer precise in many cases) thank you to describe them. Persian language audio gadget (Farsi, Dari etc) could be grouped as Aryans (in simple terms like the Nazis enjoyed) as a rule. on a similar time as Arabic and Hebrew audio gadget could be grouped as Semites (in simple terms like the Nazis hated) as a rule although this is all fairly too extensive and precise and entrenched in historic past to ever be rather secure around the board.---yet Arab is definately no longer the main stunning answer

Answer 3

Jews are Middle Eastern too

Answer 4

I know - call them nothing other than a regular person. Why makes things cultural if you don't have to.

Answer 5

Raghead or sand n----r is out, they don't like it. I have worked with many Iranians and Iraqis on several jobs and most really prefer to be called by their first name and they strongly prefer to have it pronounced properly, this is important to them. Properly pronouncing the name seems more important to them than it is to most westerners, for us close is good enough, but it isn't the same to them

Answer 6

Arabs, Persians, or Jews.

Answer 7

depends on where they came from yall r so ignorant especially the black ppl thats posting these racist slurrs middle easterns are africans jus like us in america the thing different is that society lables them different but they are black !! so your talkin about your own ppl!

Answer 8

I would answer, but then my answer would get reported for abuse.