Re: What is your ethnic background?
Reply #115 - November 07, 2011, 11:21 AM
North African or Arabized North African (please specify): Algerian/Amazigh. Some say my family originally comes from Turkey, or from the Jewish regions of Syria, or even from Arabia (doubtful, since it was common to lie about this to rise in society back in the day.) It doesn't matter, though, since considering that only a tiny bit of my genes comes from a direct paternal lineage, I'm probably overwhelmingly Amazigh, with some Arab blood. I pick "White" on official forms, though, such as uni applications (as my school adviser said I should), since the US Census Bureau defines white people "as people having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East or North Africa."
قل للمليحة في الخمار الأسود
مـاذا فـعــلت بــناسـك مـتـعـبد
قـد كـان شـمّر لــلـصلاة ثـيابه
حتى خـطرت له بباب المسجد
ردي عليـه صـلاتـه وصيـامــه
لا تـقــتـلــيه بـحـق ديــن محمد