Why aren't Egyptians not called african?

Question

Egypt is in the continent of africa like every other country whos people are called african i just don't understand.

Answer 1

The Egyptians, as well as the Greeks and "Romans" some thousand years ago, were "remnants of the Atlanto-Aryans," i.e., the former, the Egyptians, were of the older, or Ruta-Atlanteans; the last named, the descendants of the last race of that island (Poseidonis) whose sudden disappearance was narrated to Solon by the Egyptian initiates.

They're the same root race as Greeks and Romans, and therefore are not africans.

Answer 2

Most people living in Egypt are muslims from Arabian countries & descendants of people living during the era of prophet Moses. Egypt has been ruled by muslim caliphates & conquerors (from Saudi Arabia & other arabian countries) for more than a 1000 years. Maybe only a few people from Africa are living in Egypt at present & so therefore dont recognize Africans as being Egytians.

Answer 3

Because genetically, the people from Upper Egypt were not and are not, Africans. It's like the Eskimos not being called Americans. They live on the continent of America, but there is a different cultural and racial base.

Answer 4

Because they migrated from the Middle East, and they share the same Arab culture. Sure they are technically in Africa, but they are separated from the traditional Africans by the Sahara.
It is the same as calling someone from Buffalo a New Yorker. People from Western New York do not identify with the people in New York City and are very different from the people in New York City.

Answer 5

People who live on the continent of African don't refer to themselves as "African".. There are many countries there and most people identify by the country in which they live or the tribal affiliation, if any.

Answer 6

Most modern Egyptians are primarily of Arab descent and consider themselves Middle Eastern as do most of the Moroccans, Tunisians, Libyans and other people of Arab descent in North Africa.

Strictly speaking they are Africans, just as white Zimbabweans or Kenyans are Africans, yet because of their ancestry white Africans are often called "Europeans."

I guess it comes from the concept of "race" whereby some people consider the colour of someone's skin, ancestry or religion as a legitimate way of describing them.

Answer 7

Egypt today is a Muslim country, so it is not considered "African." Their skin color is also different from what we consider "African." It just a matter of the language we use. I do understand your concerns. It really doesn't make sense.

Answer 8

Different ethnic basis in part, like all North Africa, plus powerful cultural traditions. Too much swamp, desert, crocodiles etc, separating them from the rest of Africa, plus strong ties to Asia.

Answer 9

The whole truth on that part of the world is still not in, supposed anthropological verities notwithstanding.

Only that there is established a cohort of "experts" in the fields in which they agree to agree about what be the station of that which is Egypt or Egyptian.

The late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat once said on this inquiry, that on looking at him, one is looking at the classical, the quintessential Egyptian.

'Fascinating it all is that those who are purported to have the " 411" about Egypt have been at best but those who arrogated their positions, who affect to hold all knowledge and supposed truth on just what and who constitute being Egyptian, whereas instead they would have done well if not best to consort with the indigenous peoples themselves and of that immediate part of the world, to come to know the truths, the soul of it all -- those as equally if not more educated about their own native country as regards the very biological and demographical composition and fabric of Egypt.

On that note, it may be of interest to anyone that the oldest -- and still active -- university on Earth sets right there in Cairo, Egypt.

Further, we do not commonly address the French as European either, as commonly as we do specifically and popularly call them French. But this turn of reasoning pales and does not quite carry clearly as a best and fair analogy either.

Each part of the world, and each ethnic or cultural sensibility, has its own peculiar make of the world, certainly has its own insights and truths about itself, aside from somewhat precise or scientifical reference holds, for none knows itself and the truths thereof quite as that of the heart within the subject itself.

What becomes fashionable in one's heart and mind is itself a unique signature that exports to outsiders' perceptions, but nonetheless undergoes certain processes and biases or preferences -- unconsciously or not -- by outsiders.

Should those outsiders be in some express position of dominance, then such as their truths, their takes, their beliefs tend to resolve to truth itself according to 'their blood' and not that of the subjects', and conversely becomes the acceptance that the world comes to know as the unequivocal truth -- and ironically for which the subject at issue finds itself remanded to answer to, else ever be held in question.

Answer 10

Why do you want to put a label on them.What about Tunisia and Morocco.You dont understand because you are a child who does not have an atlas.