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Dec 23 12 12:53 AM
Gojira wrote:Scathach80 wrote:What about America? Well, they did not call it "America" till about 1492 or so anyway. I mentioned this above already. Regarding the Egyptians, one usually distinguishs between the North Africans and the Sub-Saharan Africans. One usually calls them Arabs (other than the Coptics and so forth) since the ancient Egyptians did not speak Arabic. (I will have to check into the situation of a sub-Saharan African disapora in North Africa. Intermarriage between Arabs and slaves may have occurred as roughly frequently as intermarriage between European descended citizens and descendants of slaves in Brazil, in contrast to the social prohibitions in the US South on such arrangements.) Why watch Big Bang Theory...
Scathach80 wrote:What about America? Well, they did not call it "America" till about 1492 or so anyway. I mentioned this above already. Regarding the Egyptians, one usually distinguishs between the North Africans and the Sub-Saharan Africans. One usually calls them Arabs (other than the Coptics and so forth) since the ancient Egyptians did not speak Arabic. (I will have to check into the situation of a sub-Saharan African disapora in North Africa. Intermarriage between Arabs and slaves may have occurred as roughly frequently as intermarriage between European descended citizens and descendants of slaves in Brazil, in contrast to the social prohibitions in the US South on such arrangements.)
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