World’s 3 Largest Ethnic Groups by population
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World’s 3 Largest Ethnic Groups by population
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Ok this can be the stupidest question but those Northwestern African people really considered themselves Arab?
Are people living in North Africa considered to be Arab? As I know that, Egyptians do not consider themselves to be Arab im sure other nations do not either.
Is Arab really a single ethnic-group?
How much of Han Chinese is assimilation? I know there are some groups called Cantonese but their region is highlighted with red as well
If we call Han Chinese as a singular ethnicity (which it is not) then we might as well count Slavic, Germanic, Latin, etc.
Arabic speakers are all 1 ethnic group as much as all latinos are 1 ethnic group (they’re not)
If you regard Arabs as a single group, then you should also regard Hindustanis and Anglophone whites as a single group.
TIL: English, American, Australian – all the same ethnic group
Bengali being 3rd largest is surprising
Arab is not ethnic-group but a political group.
I’m Lebanese and I don’t particularly see myself in the same ethnic group as Moroccans or people from the peninsula. We’re Levantine shared with most Syrians, Jordanians and Palestinians.
There’s a difference between speaking Arabic and being Arab
Arab conquest was a disaster.
I imagine it’s widely debated, but I see Arab as a panethnicity, like Hispanic, of which there are over 600 million, and not an ethnic group.
“Minorities” 🌈
If we are accepting arabs, are we also accepting christian latinos?
This is stupid data
We Egyptians aren’t arab. Neither ethnically, nor culturally. We’re ethnically coptic, including muslims and Christians. Egypt is the second most monoethnic country in the world after Korea.
It’s actually offensive to call us Arabs!
Post is making the common mixup between ethnic and cultural. Egypt is culturally Arab but definitely not ethnically Arab (a small minority of Egyptians are however).
The addition of Arab in its official name “Arab Republic of Egypt” has historical reasons but suffice to say, not all Egyptians are happy with that. Egypt has a strong national identity and in my opinion supercedes any of its other identities (Arabic cultutre, Islamic, African, Mediterranean). It really should be “The Republic of Egypt” or “The State of Egypt”
Aren’t there around 360 million Slavic people in the world?
As a Saudi, I don’t consider North Africans to be Arabs….you have to be Middle Eastern to be Arab.
Laughs in slavic
Egyptians are not Arabs same for north Africans. They got invaded and conquered by Arabs who lived in the Arabian Peninsula
There are around 450 Million Europeans living in Europe today and in total around 1.1 billion Europeans, if you include the descendants like in USA, Canada, Australia and elsewhere.
This just goes to show how fertile the Bay of Bengal is. I mean that mostly in terms of the land itself
If “Arabs” is an ethnic group, then so is “Europeans” and that “ethnic group” is about 15% of the global population, or about 1.2 billion people. About 15% of humans are “of European descent”, which for this purpose has the same ethnic validity as “Arabs”
Egyptians are predominantly copts, including both muslims and Christians. Egyptians aren’t arabs. Egypt is the second most monoethnic country in the world!
The majority of muslims in Egypt are Christian converts, just like the Christians were converted from the old Egyptian religions.
The question of Coptic identity was never raised before the rise of pan-Arabism under Nasser in the early 1950s. Up to that point, both Egyptian Muslims and Egyptian Christians viewed themselves as only Egyptians without any Arab sentiment (Deighton, H. S. “The Arab Middle East and the Modern World”, International Affairs, vol. xxii, no. 4 (October 1946), p. 519.)
We are definitely not Arabs, not historically nor culturally. We only share the language with them, and even then, a huge chuck of Egyptian Arabic is derived from Coptic and written in Arabic. The only time we were called Arabs in Egypt’s extended history of more than 6,000 years was during the Pan-Arabism movement led by Nasser.
[DNA analysis proves that Egyptians are not Arabs](https://www.egyptindependent.com/dna-analysis-proves-egyptians-are-not-arabs/#:~:text=DNA%20analysis%20proves%20that%20Egyptians%20are%20not%20Arabs.,and%20the%20overall%20origins%20of%20the%20human%20population.)
It was stated that the most extensive and comprehensive study, conducted by Egyptian hands with the participation of specialized medical institutions, Cairo University, and the Scientific Research Center in 2020, showed conclusive results revealing genetic similarities between Muslims and Christians across Egypt. This indicates that both groups descend from the same ancient ancestors.
Based on the study, the results demonstrated significant genetic homogeneity between the two ethnic groups, meaning that both are linked to the same ancestors.
Abdel Hadi said that all this information confirms the continuity of Egypt’s population and that modern Egyptians are descendants of their ancient ancestors.
According to the practical study reviewed by *Al Arabiya Net*, the goal was to study the relationship between allele frequencies (an allele is a variant form of a gene) at nine short genetic loci and their tandem repeats (STRs) (D3S1358, VWA, FGA, THO1, TPOX, CSF1PO, D5S818, D13S317, and D7S820) for the two groups, representing Egypt’s two main ethnic groups.
Abdel Hadi mentioned that genetic studies on modern Egyptians, using samples from various regions, showed great similarity with ancient Egyptian mummies.
He added, “Various studies have proven the continuity between modern and ancient Egyptians. The analysis of Trephina was close to the mummies and from the same genetic pool. Several scientific centers also confirmed a significant match between Muslim and Christian Egyptians, with both tracing back to the same ancestors.”
[Source](https://www.alarabiya.net/arab-and-world/egypt/2023/05/20/%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%AA%D9%83%D8%B4%D9%81-%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D8%B3%D8%A4%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%AB%D9%87-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A3%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%9F)
I’m muslim egyptian and i don’t identify as arab at all
The two largest Arab groups aren’t arabs, nice.
If you’re going to remove Tibet and Xinjiang from China, you should remove Kurdish and Amazigh majority areas from the Arab World.
Calling all those people in the Arab world for just “Arabs” and all the people in China for just “Han Chinese”
What about slavic people?
Most people from the Maghreb would not agree that they are Arabs. Sharing a religion doesn’t mean sharing an ethnic group.
Slavs? And not all NAfricans are Arabs