May 29, 2002 at 12:00 am #25572
Hayat R.
Member
I’ve known thousands of Arabs in my life, though I am not one. Arabs consider themselves Arab. Seriously, their culture is so old and so defined, and for them, it is a proud culture, and that is what they define themselves as racially. Of course, ‘Arab’ is a broad term; depending on whether the individual is a Moorish Arab (Morocco to Egypt) or a Mid-Eastern Arab, or a Berber Arab, they might classify themselves differently racially. But I have never met an Arab who considered himself or herself white. I’ve met some who labeled themselves as black and others as Asians, but white I have yet to see.