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Post by KLI on May 8, 2005 17:27:06 GMT -5
most Mauritanians are Arab-berbers or arab mixed (Moors) as far as I know only in the southern parts brdering Senegal are the people authentic blacks. Also, they speak classical Arabic or yemeni arabic, not that maghrebian mumbo-jumbo Maybe the person you saw was a black mixed mauritanian?
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Post by topdog on May 9, 2005 3:17:11 GMT -5
and Mauritania, though I met one Mauritanian cab driver who insisted that he was Arab and didn't like being referred to as African. He certainly wasn't pure negroid though and his wife was remarkable light-skinned for a Mauritanian. Still though, I find it interesting that he would rather associate with Arabic culture than African culture. Henry Gates noted that some ultra Negroid looking Swahili also identified as Arab, so its nothing too interesting about it.
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Post by Shenuda on May 9, 2005 11:07:53 GMT -5
Our national identity is based on common language and similar culture. There are many negroid looking Arabs, but I consider them to be Arabs like myself.
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Post by Meddish on May 9, 2005 19:30:04 GMT -5
Our national identity is based on common language and similar culture. There are many negroid looking Arabs, but I consider them to be Arabs like myself. Hmmm is that an north-african thing? the syrians tend to call anyone who looks black and speaks arabic a sudanese or a NA, though they are still seen as Arab I think? They are also called Aswad.To defferentiate from the white arabs of Arabia and the Levant.
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