Are North Africans White, Black or Middle Eastern? Genetics of Egypt, Morocco , Algeria and More!

The time has come to discuss North Africa, but are they White, Black or Middle Eastern? What are the genetics of countries of Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia and Libya?
Today, let's tackle the issue of genetics, admixture and ethnic identity in the modern countries of North Africa from a historic perspective.
I realize the assertions I make about the identity of modern North Africans like the Egyptians, Algerians and Moroccans do not apply to everyone, and that everyone has a different outlook.
Let me know your thoughts on the region of North Africa, and it's very tumultuous fluctuating history and people down in the comments below. Thanks for watching!

[@amaanreer5311]

comment section is full of people who think they're experts in history and genetics.

[@amaanreer5311]

everything i say is backed by peer reviewed studies

[@shawnparker757]

Thank you... I was just reading and shaking my fkkng head before I saw your comment...

[@bendynast9557]

Supreme Thank You!

[@adamnesico]

kk, links, wich are your sources? Come on guy, negros must be on Mali for more time, accordin to you, whee they come from? Sahara sabana seems likely to be their palce of origin, and Mali was part of.

[@bendynast9557]

adamnesico Remember African Muslims Ruled Europe From 711 AD - 1492 AD

[@allelmalika1721]

I am North African from Algeria and let me tell u that you didn't push deep your research because we are not originated from Middle East.

[@Palestine4Ever169]

allel malika wow your gorgeous 😍😍

[@allelmalika1721]

@@Palestine4Ever169 thank u so kind of u 😊

[@kiianamxmb5195]

he didn't talk about Algerian people being originated from middle est he talked about Egypt , but as we all know Arab came to north Africa to conquer and speard Islam we may not be originated from there but i can assure you that you'll find at least 8 per cent middle eastern DNA in you DNA results . we are a mix of many ethnicities and it's depend on the percentage to actually what each of us are , we really a rich background

[@allelmalika1721]

Kiiana mxmb historically, Egyptians are not Arabs, we share the same DNI print since we are originated from the same ethnics group. The idea that assumes beginning of humanity was in the Middle East is just a Jews Muslim propaganda based on no scientific or historical evidence. The oldest human has recently been found in Morocco and the second oldest one in Algeria so this overthrown the myth. I m not being racist and I love the Middle East as much as I love ancient civilization all over the glob but it's high time to correct the history we have been thought ;)

[@roskar]

Originate is not the right term, I would say that there is a certain percentage of Middle Eastern genes in our population.

[@edwardfranks5215]

Just because one speaks Arabic does not make one an Arab anymore than speaking English makes everyone English (although I have the DNA).

[@tarekzetouneh2267]

By definition of the "Arab" word it's infact an identity attached to to language. It's a common knowledge that most Arabs are "Arabized" arab musta'arba descendants of Abraham. And historically are the people living west and south of Mesopotamia.

[@israelhector4926]

I really like your delivery in this because a lot of people don’t realize colonization plays a big part on historical references, and genetic add mixture or changes in ethnography. We are indigenous African people, who unfortunately went through the same process of colonization as our other African brothers and sisters. Even my family ranges from very dark with kinky hair, two very white with colored eyes And straighten her hair textures but we all know we are inherently African in origin.

[@enotsnavdier6867]

All humans are Africans at the end of the day. Africa is the human homeland, so it's sad that those of us who have stayed there have been abused so badly.

[@MY-cv2xr]

we have a similar family situation lol we get mistaken for latinos or mixed ALL THE TIME! especially because most North Africans in Europe look very white passing :)

[@SirBlackReeds]

Didn't Africans colonize each other before Europeans ever set foot in that continent?

[@adonaiel-rohi2460]

Love you African kin I love humanity in general but I love our shared connection to Africa

[@adonaiel-rohi2460]

@@SirBlackReeds somewhat, still terrible as well, cultural extinction is bad no matter who does it

[@Fatimacita17]

I’m a Berber/Amazigh from north Morocco and my skin is quite dark. We’re mixed asf but we’re free people. That’s literally what Amazigh means: free human.

[@adamnesico]

Mmmmm, Frank Herbert called his dessert peoples of his Dune saga fremen, and its said his 2 main inspiration were caucasics and amazigh. You should read Dune, is a very interesting novel of how people of the desert, controling the main resource fo the galaxy, conquer the galaxy. Reading thatt one undertand why americans spend too much effort in control the zone, and why are musis slowly conquering the world.

[@Fatimacita17]

adamnesico I’m definitely going to read that book, thanks 🙏🏽

[@user-wk2uf5yo7x]

Talk for yourself sweety morroco is not a mixed country

[@Fatimacita17]

نعيمة السنهاجي there’s people with light skin and green eyes but there’s also people with a more dark skin etc Morocco is diverse

[@Fatimacita17]

Padraig Flanagan thank you sm

[@samlynx4908]

I'm North African and I don't care where my ancestors came from. I'll be very happy if I'm a mix of all human races which makes me connected to all humanity. I don't know why people are so obsessed with race and origins, we're all humans after all and none is better than the other because of race, origins or color.

[@oddvillainnetwork]

Sam Lynx most beautiful comment in this nightmare.

[@derwinlowery]

whiteman is god

[@kushinaa1XD]

ODD VILLAIN soo true👌

[@jakemcnamee9417]

North Africa seems to be a mix of many groups, but all indigenous ones are Caucasoid. With sub-Saharan admixture in the south due to slave trade. But Caucasoid doesn't always mean European, or white. As anyone into anthropology would know . Anyway, it seems they're a mix of Caucasoid peoples. I'm not sure if most of the original berber had light hair and eyes. I did see a photo of this one girl, She had olive skin and big dark eyes along with red hair

[@victorrichardson8260]

Sam Lynx I think the obsession comes from (my personal opinion) a lot of white cultures that over the years always putting down and being discriminative towards darker cultures. It's the white superiority complex and a lot think that all cultures are white or better cause they are lighter. For instance, in America why are Egyptians portrayed as white folks all the time? Yet when you make a mention about someone a darker culture being in a European culture gene pull....it's never true. So basically they are saying most darker cultures never contributed to the world except as slaves. Really? That's what I think the obsession comes from.

[@abiabdulahad196]

Do you realize you keep saying the Sahara desert but, the word 'sahara' means 'desert' exactly.... So essentially you are saying the 'desert desert....'

[@decode0001]

BRO I TELL THIS TO ALL MY NON ARAB SPEAKING FRIENDS ALL THE TIME LMAO finally someone who gets it haha

[@CherifCharf]

hahaa exactly

[@ZacharyAlexanderGoh]

Yes but in English, the language he’s speaking, there’s a specific desert called the Sahara Desert.

[@dlasky]

Same when people say sharia law, I don't speak Arabic but in Swahili, sheria means law and it's weird to hear people say law law.

[@alaagoni8227]

The name in Arabic ( alsahra alkobra ) grand sahara

[@aadanaadan9109]

What I hate is that I am Somali , cushitic, when some people see me they start talking to me with arabic as if I am an arab. When I tell them I aint arab, they are like , no u r ! That irritates me alot.

[@rainvast8982]

And what irritates me the most is people that really think arab is a race, it's a freaking culture like Latinos.

[@aadanaadan9109]

@@rainvast8982 but we have different culture.

[@rainvast8982]

@@aadanaadan9109 no we don't, you surely never went to another arab country or met a person from there. We are similar in everything.

[@aadanaadan9109]

@@rainvast8982 are you serious dude! I met alot of arabs from different countries . ALOT. Do they dress like us? do they eat what we eat traditionally? are they brave us we are? do we speak arabic? do they eat banana with every thing? If u like to be arab it's OK. but no one can change the facts

[@rainvast8982]

@@aadanaadan9109 listen i'm Algerian and i don't do these things you mentioned 🤷🏽‍♂️ And about clothes yes they all have similar traditional clothes, and i only know arabic French and English. And about bravery, there's no such thing a race being barver than the other. We are all the same, you can find barvery anywhere. Also i don't care what am i, i just don't like when people start separating between countries that has a lot in common, Europeans don't have much in common but they are united. Why are we like this then ? Why do we like separating between brothers.

[@rosederossi3821]

im from North Africa Algeria and im Amazigh and we have black Amazigh but there DNA is NOT North African but "sub saharan africa" North Afirca are not "sub saharan africa" not "middle east" not " european " we have a different DNA ethnicity WE ARE A " NORTH AFRICAN"

[@wagewar6451]

Rose de Rossi speak for yourself rose

[@yassinastitou7354]

Mlih nush zi maroc zi nador e shum

[@usybackpacker]

Hi Rose Basically to break it down North Africans are a blend of Germanic Vasigoths. Romans. Arabs and Sub Saharan Africans

[@theeraser6205]

what people dont understand is that north africa is very diverse . most amazigh tribes in northen parts are as white as any mediteranian people . ( spain , portugal , southern france , italy ) my father is a white man with blue eyes even tho he is moroccan . the more u move to the south , the darker the skin gets . people who live in high altitudes in morocco such as atlas mountains are very light skinned , people who live in the sahara region are darker skinned .

[@antoniobeard2030]

I'm Amazigh and my complexion is brown and my eye's are green. As far as the idiot speaking of IQ and skin complexion I'd love to note that he very much himself must have the most absolute lowest IQ known to mankind. IQ isn't a person's intelligence grade it's merely a grade of a person's ability to learn. You can have an IQ of 180 but yet be as dumb as a rock with no education nurturing it, which from your comments, you're lacking that...

[@jonathansuhr5631]

I am german and My great grandfather was amazigh 🙂❤ Love to Maghreb from Almania 😉

[@ultimosdefensoresdeeuropa8400]

GERMANNNNNN🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣,RETURN TO THE DESERT

[@SemperSometimesProductions]

Your not german

[@Peristerygr]

@@SemperSometimesProductions Klanie or neonazi?

[@hammou1312]

Woher kam er? Ich bin deutsch-kabyle

[@anarshit5451]

Oh god , now a lot of german think we share the same dna..... he did a mistake amazigh are not originaly from any where else than north africa

[@RedMissou]

Nicely done actually, for such a complicated topic you went through almost everything, kudos!

[@dickcarlton5999]

I am studying race and its terminology here in North America. I found the video interesting and informative but the comments are great. Conflicting and confusing for a student but that in its self is important information. Thank You all, Blessings.

[@debbiedowner5375]

In the 1828 Noah Webster's dictionary the word race has absolutely nothing to do with skin color it has everything to do with bloodlines. That's why all this racist bullshit talk about white and black people is for stupid retarded jerks.

[@777rogerf]

Experts say that DNA tests are not as exact as they pretend to be: search KZbin on "twins dna test different results". The subject does lead to videos and comments that are really informative and entertaining. So, many thanks to those who make such videos and those who comment.

[@amirkmn3771]

I'm north african, Very white skin and blue eyes dark hair, I don't usually tan, And am berber, I hate being called arab although no one would based on my looks, but just don't assume north africa as a part of the arab community, I don't hate arabs but no one want to be called something he's not

[@HashmiSan]

White skin blue eyes that means you are no a berber fella...berber usually have a dark skin

[@rainvast8982]

Berberes usually look very similar to arabs and you can't differentiate between by the look. So you aren't an amazigh neither.

[@shinystars5535]

@@HashmiSan berbers come in all shades and colors. Most of berbers have a fair skin. Stop making yourself sound smarter then you actually are

[@jesusisjerryallahistom]

you are berber"white skinned" and you originated from africa???it's weird.

[@shinystars5535]

@@jesusisjerryallahistom Africa does suffer from stereotypes just like Asia, Africans come in all shape and formes

[@kuroazrem5376]

There is evidence that the Imazighen (Berbers) were there before 45000 years ago. In fact, they created some of the first human civilizations in the green sahara

[@mmr7484]

Kuro Azrem 45,000 years ago?? Lol! If u have no idea what u r talking about.

[@chrishanssen6738]

@@mmr7484 its actually kind of true. The Iberomaurician culture where the ancesters of the Amazigh. They came to northafrica around 35.000 years ago. Their DNA matches to a great extend to nowadays Amazigh people. North Africans indeed some of the most stabelized DNA in the world. Meaning that because because they've been so Isolated through sea and Sahara, they haven't had alot of disturbences in their DNA. Its much older than alot of other African cultures. You can read about more recent studies. anthrogenica.com/showthread.php?13767-Ancient-DNA-from-North-Africa-(this-time-with-formal-stats)/page55

[@realtalktalkreal2347]

Kuro Azrem how can they be the first to create civilisation in Africa when they haven't even been in Africa for that long 4500 years ago ain't that long ago

[@realtalktalkreal2347]

mocro appie u can find the date when white arabs settled in North Africa but u can't find the date when black Africans settled in Africa

[@cinematiccreator716]

?

[@jennysam3929]

Quite honestly I am just sick and tired of people going back and forth making your skin color, and make no mistake this is skin color, an issue. We must stop defining people as white, black or brown! It only serves to separate us and it doesn't matter what color your skin is. You are who you are, a human being!

[@bernardwade8096]

I wish more people would accept this fact

[@jamesbedukodjograham5508]

That would be quite difficult because Skin Colour is what defines a human being. Unless our eyes decide to change how we view colours and the world around us and between us.

[@jamesbedukodjograham5508]

@@bernardwade8096 We are all still trying.

[@ademali8199]

Exactly 💯

[@SirBlackReeds]

Not just skin color. If you look at the Berbers, they generally don't _look_ like what you expect Africans to look like.

[@johngalpin2903]

This was actually fascinating. Thanks for putting in the effort!

[@loulou1235]

Actually as a Moroccan I can say you are misinformed. The biggest haplogroup in Morocco is 80% Amazigh. Aka berber (E1b1b1b) the Middle Eastern dna is fairly new in time, only after the arrival of Islam and in a relative small percentage. And it was ONLY after islam that a connection was established, before that there was nothing in common.

[@ayahaqeel1782]

The native Arabians are e1b1b J dna come from Iraq. e1b1b is Hamitic gene from north east Africa to north Africa , south Arabia and Palestine .

[@user-ek6fl9kh2e]

And why do you want to be a black man I'm disappointed that some Maghrebians don't want to be Arabs and flee from Islam

[@solomoney99]

I am Jewish and my haplogroup is E1b1b1b. I also got 3.2% North African on my DNA test, perhaps I do have some North African in me, or maybe E1b1b1b is common in North Africa because of the Phoenicians. My haplogroup comes from Jordan/Israel/Iraq/Northern Saudi Arabia, so perhaps many Moroccans (and Tunisians for that matter) have that haplogroup because of Middle Eastern migrations

[@charlespaxtonmartin7663]

@@solomoney99 Interestingly, according to Wikipedia, "over the years the Moroccan Jews' DNA was examined and studied by numerous studies, the general image of it showed that in terms of Y-DNA it was mainly from the same Levantine source as the vast majority of the world's Jewry, meaning that they too are descendants of the Ancient Hebrews/Israelites from the Biblical times. In the case of Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews (in particular Moroccan Jews), who are apparently closely related, the non-Jewish component is mainly southern European. ...the study by Behar et al concludes that it is unlikely that North African Jews have significant Arab, or Berber admixture, "consistent with social restrictions imposed by religious restrictions," or endogamy. This study also found genetic similarities between the Ashkenazi and North African Jews of European mitochondrial DNA pools, but differences between both of these of the diaspora and Jews from the Middle East."

[@imrane8794]

@@user-ek6fl9kh2e you don't know man we want to keep our tradions you know. We don't want to let our traditions die bro

[@charlespaxtonmartin7663]

I recently spent 3 months in Morocco travelling in most parts of the country, except the Western Sahara (off limits). I was amazed to see very few people from Sub-Saharan Africa, whereas I had been imagining that people would be moving towards the Mediterranian ports to crowd into "pateras" bound for Europe. Certainly in the North and much of the center and interior, you would see primarily Berber people who would identify themselves as such. Many were indeed paler than many southern Mediterranean people. Further south, and especially along the coast, the Arab culture strongly dominates the cities from Rabat downwards. Still, according to Wikipedia, a recent study by the National Geographic showed the majority of North Africa are predominantly of non-Arab ancestry, thus Amazigh. As is well known, the Arabic language in its local forms is dominant, so that many people of Berber descent are primarily Arabic speakers, although in the Maghreb there is a serious movement to preserve Amazigh identity, which some feel is threatened by the majority Arab culture. I am not an expert, but these are things I have seen and can confirm in my many trips there.

[@moehayouni7673]

Your input is very objective about the people of Morocco, we don't want your view how look, "paler" only describing a person is sick, Who the f... is you to describe me as such. It was hard for you to say these population are "whiter" than the southern Europe. well, I am thinkiing you spent those three months in Morocco with no benefit of learning.

[@hectorcortez8766]

Morocco, Algeria,Libya and Tunisia are Berber. They are not mostly Arab!

[@jamesbedukodjograham5508]

The Berbers are the original inhabitants of North Africa out there.

[@salmastorm]

Why did say "western sahara was off limit"?!

[@jamesbedukodjograham5508]

@@salmastorm Western Sahara is off limits because of the Political situation on the border with Modern Morrocco today.

[@quincyquincy4764]

I used to go to school with a Amazigh girl from Morocco. A Beautiful girl with dark skin, dark eyes with long curly black hair. Others always thought she was from Cape Verde. The Moroccan population living in The Netherlands (where I'm from) tend to have a light/white skin colour.

[@yassboh7658]

Those are riffians (originally North Africans ) in netherlands.

[@aymanouadi8071]

@@yassboh7658 yeah most moroccans in europe are rif

[@mrstarbuck9212]

@@aymanouadi8071 Netherlands + Belguim = Rif Spain = Jebala Italy = Khouribga France = Sous US = Fḍala Casablanca

[@aymanouadi8071]

@@mrstarbuck9212 yeah truee

[@doa_ak7636]

@@yassboh7658 there's some light skin Moroccans who aren't from riff

[@StopTheLiess]

Middle East is not a race or ethnic group. It's a region with several languages.

[@Youssef_2003_Antoine]

Middle East is race

[@king.2597]

There's a clear connect between the people there If we start getting nuanced with it we'll have to get nuanced with everything, and we'll ultimately realize that race is a shitty man made concept By your definition what are brown iraqis for example then?

[@shnilikmw]

Middle East isn’t even an accurate description too, its why now we call it the Arab World, Levant and North Africa

[@StopTheLiess]

@@shnilikmw Your American, your not even Arabic what do you mean that’s what WE call it?

[@aytaf5430]

Amazigh are not arabes they are north africans

[@ffyg4563]

So You are black people

[@sexcorpio6976]

@@ffyg4563 Neather

[@ffyg4563]

@@sexcorpio6976 Amazigh dilect spell a arabic original letters if any one spells that letters it means his arabian originals or his dilect is arabian The lettrs are((ق، غ، ع، ض، ط،ظ))

[@sexcorpio6976]

@@ffyg4563 These are Arabian characters, Amazighs have their own

[@ffyg4563]

@@sexcorpio6976 Witch are??

[@overbanked]

Most black people in the US have no North African DNA. I'm black, and 88 percent African, with zero North African DNA. All of the youtube Ancestry videos I see are the same. It's a shame that many blacks downplay their Sub Sarahan roots (which has a lot of culture) for some stupid pyramids in Egypt, something that they most likely have no connection with ancestrally speaking.

[@carloslee2360]

overbanked yea it's rare to see Black Americans brag about being Zulu they always want to say they built the pyramids tho.

[@maryamkim1281]

What are North African genes? The Berber Marker? Or the Saami strain, for instance, from Mtdna showing that the African men had many white sex slaves/forced wives? How African is THAT? The genetics of North Africa is complex, according to geneticists.

[@maryamkim1281]

Carlos Lee, then why did the Egyptians themselves say they were from the South as per their statements that the land of the ancestors (Ta-Nehesi) and the land of the Gods (Ta-Netjer) is always upstream (Up the Nile is South) and referencing kingdoms south of Kemet’s borders. Remember the Nile starts in Uganda (Africa, not Asia or Europe). The accounts are found among Pepi II’s recorded expeditions (Hwt-Hrw’s home is Yam), Hatshepsut’s expeditions (Pwenet is home to the deities and we now know that is Eritrea and Ethiopia at the very least as per the genetic testing of mummified Baboons matching that area), and in the Famine Stela (Khnum of Nubian/Ta-Seti origin). The centuries later Greeks (Herodotus and 400 years later Diodorus Siculus as well as others in between) would be more plain to state that Egypt was a colony of the Aithopians who were upstream along the Nile. Why is that, Carlos?

[@bubbaveaux]

Carlos Lee Most Black Americans don't have Zulu blood either since the Zulus are in the southern region of Africa, an area that wasn't affected too much by the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. But you probably didn't look that up, so your comment was likely meant to be condescending.

[@Bonterjack]

Black people in america don't descend from the Zulu... we mostly descend from people of west and central Africa. Hell even a little bit from Madagascar and Mozambique thanks to the Portuguese.

[@eza9071]

I hope after all these years this guy can go back and re-do these videos with more research but still it was educational

[@mikaljon3949]

Am from algeria and my father is fair skined and my mother is little bit darker , I have some family members who have blue eyes and some are blond ,some are really dark , it's a mix , I know am not a fully Arab but as long I speak Arabic and a Muslim am proud of that , it does not matter which ethnicity I am am a Muslim that what matters the most

[@deeharris_4350]

God bless ! The true Algerians were not Arab or white. They were black Africans I think it will be good for Muslims to look into how Islam spread across north Africa it should open up your minds to true Islam as it was practiced by the first real Arab Muslims

[@mikaljon3949]

@@deeharris_4350 what is this nonsense , algerians before islam were not black , so do you call alkbail in the city tiziwzo black , they took their gens from the Roman and Greek and Germanic invadors , the Romans were there even before Islam , islam has nothing to do with color , do you think the first Muslims were all black then your extremely ignorant and racist , how can Islam fight color racism in Maka if the first Muslims were black 😂, and who told you the north Africans before Islam were all black if you say this to them they will die laughing 😂

[@deeharris_4350]

Mikal Jon let’s not be silly and jump from A to Z. The first PPL were black! The first ppl were African. The first Africans were black. These blacks touch Algeria long before Islam ever came about or before any religion was made When you learn WHO the first ppl were (their color) you will understand we all come from blacks And no I know the first Muslims weren’t black! Muhammad was a white Arab who had BLACK slaves. Time to research your sahib hadiths and learn. *God bless*

[@deeharris_4350]

Mikal Jon and brother if you want the hadiths that talk about the prophets skin color and about his many black slaves just let me know I will be glad to show them to you along with the Islamic websites so you can let the truth set you free. Insha allah

[@Cimex090]

Of course all of us were black, since we all come from africa. But our skin color changed due to the environment and climate in which each group had to live in.

[@workoffice5703]

The history is so vast and varied. I'm from the most northern part of Morocco and you can see a variety of characteristics from all different gene pools. For example the skin shades vary so so much but our physiques are very African. It's so confusing but very interesting. And I'm actually very proud because no 2 Moroccans look identical. We are soooooo varied.

[@mayorafukucho]

"our physiques are very African" what does this mean?

[@oussamametrab2961]

Morocco white and brown

[@moondvst4131]

@@mayorafukucho they probably mean the facial structure

[@fivecinco5923]

I agree with you, that's why I don't believe at all in what say that there would be a Berber DNA, which is a manipulation. With such a varied population there can't be one type of DNA when from one house to another there are different types of population.

[@fivecinco5923]

@@mayorafukucho "Work Office" talks about his family and those he Know in Rif. I don't think i talk about your family guy. the skin color of a person can vary with each interbreeding but the physical characteristics remain close to those of the group to which you really belong. A physical aspect of a person, whatever their culture, their identity claims can be seen. And "Work Office" is talking about himself and his immediate environment, so you have to respect that. We can't force everyone in the Maghreb to assert themselves differently than what they feel and see for themselves, we can't be the same and all claim the same things.

[@adamm.6386]

Wonderful piece of work! *Thank You* for sharing and explaining to young explorers a break down of North African history and culture in an educative and non discriminatory way. ✊

[@BeRealofficialextremeTV]

That was not a real break down that was a white wash because 4000 years ago all the people in Africa in the Middle East were people of dark skin, Arabs are a new species of humans on this planet. The main purpose for the Arabs At this time was to enslave all dark skin people around the world and this still go on to this Day

[@mehdibelacel6963]

Me an Algerian : *watches video* i need to do a dna test 😂

[@Phantom_275]

@John Builes omg race doesn’t mean shit. It was invented by racist people so we could feel divided. Let me ask a question really quick. Are Asian people from Japan considered white because lots of Japanese people have light skin. Race is a construct. Heck in Ancient Egyptian painting there’s literally women painted a yellowish skin color and men painted as a reddish brown.

[@DahdouhiAhmed]

كاين في الجزائر ؟

[@firefly5874]

@John Builes lol

[@user-yu8yz9fm5h]

@John Builes yes we are white but not Europeans 🙂

[@user-wp7nt4gj6g]

@John Builes Algerie not Europe

[@faycaldjellali920]

We algerians didn’t come from the middle east WTF.some the middle eastern came to us

[@Palestine4Ever169]

Lay cef Stop taking drugs Science said we come from the middle east 20k years ago We didn’t appear out of no where

[@faycaldjellali920]

the arabian falcon WE WUZ KANGZ oh really so I’m white arab or my dad is a blonde arab, hilarious 😂. Well u can lie but the dna test won’t lie

[@Palestine4Ever169]

Lay cef Yee you idiot Levent is a thing look it up Dna doesn’t lie i agree So leave the bs that we come out no where because science disagree with that We come 20k years ago from the middle east I have green eyes the same Palestines and others Do you have that ? No Does that make you from different race? No

[@user-re7yl3py2x]

@@Palestine4Ever169 we didn't came from no where we're indigenous (I'm Moroccan ) and Arabs didn't came before Islam and even afterwards they still a very small minority in Northern Africans countrys and to be honest I've never seen a DNA test done by northern Africans shows that they have a middle eastern DNA + Arab is not even a race

[@Palestine4Ever169]

meriam ibnoumounjim Please don’t ever comment again Because we are North Africans now You expect them to call you middle eastern when you are living in North Africa? The dna itself Is different story It will tells you it come from the middle east

[@rawovunlapin8201]

Wow, the comment section need take a chill pill.

[@TheEmadia]

lutin grognon and save us from the EUROCENTRICS masquerading as the voice of rationality, Greater knowledge and common sense.

[@cv4809]

Rawov Un Lupin Cancer has no cure

[@ernisato]

lutin grognon Nah, even in a video about *asias* the wild white supremacist appeared. *WHITE SUPREMACISTS*, like wtf? I don't think only it has to do with afrocentrists, people have proven to be quite aggressive despite the subject. But I may be wrong.

[@Youre_dumb]

Jahan Jho Why would someone want to infect themselves with autism?

[@hanamoataz9723]

yeah it's a mess

[@Ideophagous]

My whole family is from Morocco and has lived there for generations, and they claim to be Arabs. My DNA test results show that this is not the case though: North African (aka Berber aka Amazigh): 41.75% Iberian: 15.65% (Spanish, Portuguese and Basque) Mediterranean: 14.24% (probably from Mediterranean islands or coastal regions) Sub-Saharan African: 12.09% Arab: 8% Near Eastern: 7.84% (I suppose this is the region of Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and Sinai) Oceanian: 0.39% Italian: 0.09% As for my paternal haplogroup, it's G2a, which is Caucasian in origin (the highest concentration of G is found in Georgia). This Y-haplogroup is found among 3-4% of the Amazigh population, and has nothing to do with Arabs, who have a subclade of J1 or J2.

[@MrEVAQ]

@Cleopatra He is still mostly Berber than anything else. Having one Caucasian ancestor somewhere down the line hardly makes him "Caucasian". "G" haplogroup also likely originated in the Middle East, despite being highly concentrated in the Caucasus. His specific clade is actually fairly rare, I'm not sure how common it is in the Caucasus

[@Ideophagous]

+Cleopatra I know that a lot of people, especially in the past, used to take their paternal line as the sole reference for their ethnic origin, but I think that we 21st century people know better. Everyone is a mix of different ethnicities. I would personally identify as Berber/Amazigh primarily, and secondarily as African/Mediterranean.

[@Ideophagous]

+MrEVAQ Here's a map of the distribution of G haplogroup: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Haplogrupo_G_%28ADN-Y%29.PNG My specific subclade (G2a-PF3146) seems to have originated from migrating groups that came through Europe: www.marres.nl/afb/G2a2_migrations.jpg

[@jarjeesdr2734]

Theophagous you are Armenians or iraqi 10% G or north syrian

[@Ideophagous]

+JARJEES DR My family has been in Morocco for centuries actually. Not to mention, G is found in many other regions, such as Europe. Also, if you check this database of G samples on FTDNA, you will see that all Moroccan samples belong to the L91 subclade (which I suspect would be my case too, but I have to do a more thorough DNA test), which is mainly found in Europe, with very few samples found in Iran and India. G is very rare in Morocco anyway (around 0.5% of the population), so I think it's probably linked to one specific migration that took place many centuries ago, in which case there would probably not be many varieties of it. www.familytreedna.com/public/G-PF3146?=yresults

[@mylifeismiserableandsoami953]

"What race do you wanna be?" North africans and middle easterns: *yes* It's more complicated when you're egyptian, it's literally a country in north africa and the middle east jsjsjsjs i have the biggest identity issues like seriously wtf am i-

[@paulaalegriajoao9394]

I know and I understand but just know that you are an African born in the most beautiful and amazing continent in the world with its 54 countries despite all our downfalls and struggles, greatness still lies within this continent, we are truly a blessed continent, historically, language wise, skin tone variation , music, hairstyle, resource and uniqueness. That why they try to divide us so we don't realize our great we are, we can be littlest and simplist person living in this continent but we are still great. This beautiful motherland is your home and your sense of identity and belonging.

[@user-gc8zt4bz1d]

Samee i don’t know what am i

[@yasminehalime933]

Same I’m not too light but I’m not dark either and I have a Afro I literally don’t know what race to identify as

[@paulaalegriajoao9394]

@@yasminehalime933 you are black person because I am the same as you

[@user-no2bg4wv3f]

yepp same heree

[@aboybaker123]

This was a good video. Very well researched. As a second generation Moroccan American, I was always curious about my racial and ethnic identity. I see some people in the comments would state that I’m white and berber, not Arab. But my parents barely spoke a few words of Berber. They identified as and had a certain pride in being Arab. The Arab identity goes beyond genetics. There is a significant cultural and linguistic association with being Arab. Not to completely ignore the distinct Berber language and history. In the Moroccan dialect, it’s heavily influenced by Berber that makes it unintelligible to other Arabs. We also have a unique history and culture. In spite of those differences we also have a shared history and culture with other Arab peoples. So, I’m comfortable saying that you can be both Arab and Berber. Identifying as race is in my opinion a flawed and dangerous matter. Race is based on outward physical and perceived genetic differences. However, I’ve encountered Arabs, Indians, etc; peoples you would not consider black in the traditional sense have much darker skin than Black Americans. Genetically speaking we’re similar to the point of being the same. That’s why regardless of race, culture, language barrier we are all apart of the same group; being human, and not some other primate. No offense to monkeys, apes, and gorillas.

[@monkeydluffy8225]

Did you smoke crack? Why tell us this BS

[@TRUTHTEACHER2007]

Also, for the record, there's no such thing as a "Middle Eastern" phenotype, or "race". Turks have a variety of phenotypes. Syrians and Lebanese don't look like Yemenis and Yemenis don't look like Palestinians. There are a variety of Berber groups and they aren't a homogenous group either. Algerians and Moroccans have features that are very strikingly different from one another if you are familiar with them. Different bone structure, head shape. Egyptians, when you visit there enough times you begin to notice common features that are very striking and distinct from other North Africans and definitely different from Levantines. Yes, there is a certain percentage of overlap, but each of these ethnic groups are unique in their own ways. It's really not what people think, culturally or anthropologically. Let's all stop being lazy and get to know people by their unique identities rather than just lumping them into neat boxes that don't even make sense to any of them.

[@sarahhamid6279]

All north african are alike since they came from the same asiatic and afro asiatic diaspora ; they are not genetically black and afrocentrics shall stop bringing " slavery of white & asiatic people " cause those people are the indingenous and they did not bring any slavery ; there are people who can pass as white as the aiatic people and there were immigrations but in both cases they are black and they are indigenous to north africa.

[@TRUTHTEACHER2007]

@@sarahhamid6279 Did you actually read what I said or are you just talking out the crack of your ass miss? Also, can you actually speak English or ate you relying on Google translate? Because your sentences make no damn sense.

[@ZiaddaiZ]

North Africa is Maghrebian, and not middle eastern or arab. Just look on the map, yes north africa has many influences and is diverse , but we are not middle eastern or arab. Just like we are not spanish, although they speak spanish in the north of morocco and are influenced by it. Just like we are not French. The basis of North Africa is Amazigh. Just accept that North Africa is the Maghreb region with its own culture and its own people, just let us be free

[@hazatrotestikas888]

But what's your race please

[@ZiaddaiZ]

@@hazatrotestikas888 Souss/Amazigh

[@zoezoe3301]

@@ZiaddaiZ that's a made up word

[@ZiaddaiZ]

@@zoezoe3301 Northafrican, sous tribe, berber, amazigh call it how you like

[@Emforlife445]

@@zoezoe3301 If Black is a race and White is a race , north Africans are generally brown / Light brown or white depending on geography , since north africa itself is a variety of natural landscapes deserts , green hills and snowy mountains , and btw 'Arab' is not a race it's ethnicity referring to people who originate from the arabian peninsula just like american is not a race , and geography states that people who originate from north africa are called north-africans , unlike people who originate from the middle east or arabian peninsula are called arabs or middle-eastern as the place they belong to , why the hell is this complicated for people to get xD

[@zigzag1able]

Masaman: *hey look there's fairskin people living in Africa they must be Arab!* Me: 🙄

[@kensdobs]

www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ACYBGNR_vqS984BGkJWNZY2yMLXyDLAk6Q:1578441441172&q=pictures+of+vanessa+williams&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiW-5jL2PLmAhXqmOAKHcYOBG4QsAR6BAgKEAE The above link contains pictures of a very fair skinned American women, & she's recognized worldwide as racially BLACK. FACT: 1-INDIGENOUS BLACK AFRICANS are more GENETICALLY & PHENOTYPE DIVERSE than all other humans in the world combined. FACT: 2-INDIGENOUS BLACK AFRICANS are the only humans that are GENETICALLY & BIOLOGICALLY capable of producing every human Phenotype that exists within the human race. FACT: 3-WHITE is a GENETICALLY RECESSIVE color that can produce no other color but itself, but all other colors can produce WHITE. FACT: 4-BLACK is a GENETICALLY DOMINANT color & is the only color that can produce itself & all other colors, no other color can produce BLACK. Therefore, all of this BS about reclassifying INDIGENOUS BLACK AFRICANS, & other INDIGENOUS BLACK POPULATIONS, as WHITE/CAUCASOID/CAUCASIAN based solely on GEOGRAPHY is pure BS.

[@ratface1208]

People in Nigeria look very very dark compared to African Americans maybe it has to do with mixing

[@zigzag1able]

@@Palestine4Ever169 Great response there arabian falcon, must had of took alot out of you to type that up, now would ya like a ham sandwich for your troubles... 🍖🍞

[@melly7874]

Nobility Is A Must nigga stfu

[@icewallowpis1470]

the arabian falcon WE WUZ KANGZ and go back to the Middle East Africa belongs to blacks that’s why they make up 70% of the population

[@Cyfix15]

Wow, good research. Specially true about Arab motion pictures being made mostly in egypt. Which means most north africa and the middle east completely understand egyptian arabic

[@mapleleaf81]

I am Egyptian. I did my DNA test and my results are amazing "42.2% North African, 7.3% Nigerian, 3.7% Somalian, 26.4% Middle East, 13.3% West Asia "Turkey and Iran", 7.1% Europe" I feel like my DNA is a cocktail of ethnicity.

[@hazatrotestikas888]

Dodgy

[@badpharaoh463]

My dna test result is 99.6% Egyptian

[@erenjaeger1738]

​@@badpharaoh463 sftu

[@badpharaoh463]

@@erenjaeger1738 cry about it

[@erenjaeger1738]

@@badpharaoh463 what's the other then?

[@RoniForeva]

The fact that you mentioned pied-noir shows that you are actually doing your research! I am really proud of you and this channel (even though I don't know you and I discovered this channel a few hours ago. I'm African and I know a lot of the things you speak about (concerning race in the African continent and the descendants of the continent). I think you are doing GREAT, but it is somewhat obvious (to me at least) that a lot of these topics are new to you and you've researched on it leaving a few gaps and misinformation in your reporting. Not being an overly sensitive person it's not a problem to me coz you are actually educating yourself and others and I get the feeling that as your channel grows and you learn more you will be revisiting the topics and filling in the gaps and on certain topics you covered. I also want to tell you to ignore the hateful commenters and delusional Afrocentrist, as an African I can tell you that you know far more than they ever will. Also good job on the Chagos video that is such a little-known island and group of people. (P.S you should research the Fulani ethnic group they straddle between the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa. I met one yesterday and he had to convince me he was Senegalese and not Ethiopian. Also when speaking on the history of North Africa it's worth speaking on the Kingdom of Carthage and the Moorish empire). lastly the native name/PC name of Berbers are Amazigh, and they are the majority in most of North Africa. I wish you the best of luck and look forward to more of your videos - Best, a new subscriber!!

[@TheEmadia]

Roni the eurocentrics are the worst. They are the worst because they think opinion is better than research or facts.

[@RoniForeva]

Eurocentrists are Demons, afro-centrists are crazy. No extreme are in the right

[@mllezhn1612]

It's actually insane that you never mentioned the Barbary pirates

[@chynadiamond1971]

I’m glad someone said it

[@maassrddd]

What has that to do with this video about?like talking about germans and then someone waiting to hear him saying nazis

[@jabu1591]

@@chynadiamond1971 The Barbary slave trade did not have a large affect on the population that’s why

[@jabu1591]

He would then have to talk about the Saharan slave trade which started over a thousand years ago and is still on going. It probably isn’t easy to determine the effect slavery had on the region as slavery was handled differently than in the west.

[@boolinboibobby1758]

Everyone’s a mix of something

[@daydreamer7143]

True; our ancient ancestors had a lot of love affairs through the millennia.

[@ayiarahma8321]

I’m a purebred 😀👍🏽 I took a dna test

[@crypticcorgi8280]

Ayia and Abel, Being a "pure breed." Doesn't make you superior to anyone.

[@ayiarahma8321]

Cryptic Corgi I’m not pure bred at all

[@ayiarahma8321]

Cryptic Corgi when did I say pure breds we’re superior? We just showed that not everyone was mixed.

[@princesswannabe1]

Tbh I really don't understand why every race degrade Africans or don't want a small percentage of African roots.They act as if Africans are not humans like wtf is wrong with humanity.God created different races with different culture,facial feature,complexion and etc.If that's the case,Africans would've never been created.

[@yesmynguettouche]

princesswannabe1 this video doesn't represent us (North African people ) we (berbers) are so proud of our African roots , we are African no matter what and screw everyone who claims that we came from middle East or Europe , we are Africans and proud ❤

[@ysfelo3818]

We lived in north Africa for 20 000+ years go look it up, ofcourse some berber have more subsaharan gene's well others have more of the middeleast or europe. But we are our own ethnic group with depending of where u from in north africa more influence from different people's

[@ysfelo3818]

@@yesmynguettouche i don't think u necessarily know what ur saying ? Its like saying people from mali our African... Of course they are but that don't mean they have the same gene's as someone from south Africa.

[@ysfelo3818]

@@LH-hg3bc they have different gene's but yeah they are sub saharan African but that was not my point i already said we are north African but there our differences between the different people's in Africa/europe/asia etc not everyone in EU is from the same genetic make up same goes for africa,asia etc

[@LH-hg3bc]

@@ysfelo3818 I understand that. My point is they are still black.

[@marieloiusnone6732]

I'm an American. Blonde with blue eyes. I went few years ago to Algiers for a vacation, I can't remember how many times people asked me if I was a Kabyle from the mountains. I speak French so they thought I was Algerian. I have seen many people that look like Scandinavians. Algeria is like Brazil; there are all sorts of people.

[@user-wk2uf5yo7x]

Algeria is majoritarily native contrary to brazil which is a mixture of tree component european indigenous and black

[@gloriadorlich2878]

Wow your knowledge blows me away...♡ Thank you 😄

[@hadjeraissaoui8267]

I am north african and algerian girl , I don't care what ethnicity I am from . I am HUMAN

[@esternwairimu4959]

Am from Kenya ,and l have north Africans friends as u said yaa we don't care about colour , what we care is we live happily

[@sb7798]

Best answer right here

[@joannemercer8457]

Great response!

[@jackal25301]

@@aksilghiles3956 comedia lmao

[@brendaandrade6753]

That right

[@crystalnait455]

One of these videos that got it really really wrong about Amazigh in North Africa ... just sigh Just do your own research people, that's all I'm gonna say.

[@boudihma4691]

preach

[@exposeevil5492]

@Djxjxhxh Hzjsjsjssb ATS Bible Dictionary Mizraim *A son of Ham, and father of various African races, Genesis 10:6, but particularly of the Egyptians, to whom his name was given. Mizraim is also the Hebrew word for Egypt in the Bible, and this country is still called Misr in Arabic.* ATS Bible Dictionary Ham *1. Burnt, swarthy, black, A son of Noah, Genesis **5:32** **7:13** **9:18** 10:1. The impiety revealed in his conduct towards his father, drew upon him, or rather, according to the Bible statement, on his son Canaan, a prophetic malediction, Genesis **9:20**-27. Ham was the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan, that is, the ancestor of the Canaanites, Southern Arabians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, and the Africans in general, Genesis 10:6-20.* *2. A poetical name for Egypt, Psalm 78:51 106:22.* Webster's deluxe unabridged dictionary 2nd edition Hamite *A member of any of several dark-skinned peoples native to northern and eastern Africa.*

[@mrvoy8215]

I hope so but masaman he spitting facts and facts doesnt care about feelings . Before he makes this video he did alot of research . This Guy is library

[@psychopassisamasterpiece1997]

@@mrvoy8215 if he is a library, i'm a supercomputer. doing research properly and fact checking it and just doing it are two different things. middle eastern is much of a real thing as a latino. so no existent. it's 2020, it's time colonial nonsense die already

[@mrvoy8215]

@@psychopassisamasterpiece1997 supercomputer with anime picture and 0 videos . Wow ! Better than masaman Congratulations !

[@AMJ.7]

I am an Arab from saudi arabia And in fact we arabs do not have a certain color We have all the colors , Black , White , Yellow , Brown and It is shameful to talk about the skin color because we did not create ourselves and we did not choose our colors , This is the will of Allah "GOD" who created us and we are proud of this And if I say to you, I am an black Arab So what this make me ?

[@stardust2172]

Abdullah Alshehri People are always trying to Explain someone’s else’s culture and always have most of the info wrong With that said,your comment Is so true. And why is it that whites never talk about where they originate from or there history before America. They are more obsessed with studying people of color then themselves.things that make you go hmmm

[@user-wk2uf5yo7x]

@@stardust2172 truuue

[@abdiwalimohamed5631]

thanks sister iam from Somalia and iam black arab and i usually like all the colours

[@daniellaxoxo5812]

Abdiwali Mohamed somalia is not arab and will never be idiot

[@ayahaqeel1782]

I'm Somali and we not either black or Arab. We got our own unique identity. Somalid/ Cushitic/ hamitic. Our skin tone reddish brown iyo golden brown and dark brown. I find north Africans and south arabia to Palestine it used hamitic race land.and they still carry our Somalid gene E1b1b.

[@Nina-qg5ry]

After watching massaman’s videos: ‘ 🥺 who am I??’ Kidding! I love your videos 💖 Much love from Sudan 🇸🇩

[@aliaom8037]

سودانيه انا برضو سوداني

[@skugga7]

It is indeed full of diversity, and many people identify very differently from others even if they're in a close region. I am an Algerian living abroad, and I remember I had a job interview where I had been asked to prove my French proficiency, so they brought another Algerian to test it. After I passed through it, the team leader told the woman that me and her are from the same country. Her reaction was bizarre as she tried to distance herself from me, and somehow I saw her embarrassment of being related in any way to me. She told him that we are not from the same country, she is Amazigh and I am an Arab. I did not respond to her as her remark was not only unprofessional but also inaccurate. This is not to say that all Amazighs are like this, I can assure you that other people within the same region with different backgrounds feel the same towards whoever they have been propagated to discriminate against. But it goes to show how diverse the region is.

[@jokina9289]

Belonging to a race is not only about colours, it is also about the body and face features.

[@milleziano]

Fair enough. I would like to add that inheritance (land) is also part of the equation.

[@AdNG1]

Race is not real. It's a social construct.

[@swalihmm]

That kind of sounds like what a racist would say to a 'white' North African.

[@daeith1233]

No it isn't tbh for example there is a difference between central african features and east african ones, yet they're all called Black. It would mean y'all only apply those differences for white people

[@maozedong8370]

@@AdNG1 Race is 100% real. It is just the variation in the aesthetics of human population like skin tones or facial structure. It is different enough that it makes each individual from each race look very different from one another, but not so different that it has caused a branching species to develop. If races were left alone for a much longer time in various geographic areas, they'd eventually evolve independently of one another and become different species of human.

[@adamthaeer217]

North Africa especially the north part of (Egypt, Libya, Tunisia,Algeria and Morocco) Middle East (Turkey, Iran ,Iraq , Syria, Israel-Palestine, Jorden ,Arminia ,Lebanon, Azerbaijan, Cyprus and Arabian Peninsula) South Europe especially the south part of (Spain , Italy, Greece, Portugal، Malta and Sicily) Historically one area ( Assyrian_Babylonian Empire, Parisian Empire, Greek_Macedonian Empire, Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Arab Empire, Outman Empire) They controlled the same area at different times

[@user-kq2gt6yy3o]

And they all (except turks) originate from the Fertile Crescent

[@realtalktalkreal2347]

Adam Thaeer if white arabs can call them selves real Africans than white Europeans can call them selves real South Africans zulu.

[@MrPlayerFB]

Out-man emipre😂🤦‍♂️

[@realtalktalkreal2347]

Oly na Haile selassi is black and he is king Solomon great grandson hence Y His family is lives in king Solomon holy house in Ethiopia

[@learose8623]

U forgot about saudi dubai quwait Qatar yemen etccc

[@homerelesperance2857]

Wow, somewhere in this video I got lost and dizzy in translation! LOL 8) Just when I thought you were about to sum up everything up at the end on who's, who or more accurate, who's what, you send me straight back to square one (Huh? Back to the question, ...) again, lol. 8} Anyway, I want to say I love your channel of videos, it is very interesting and educational and it shows that just like this planet Earth have diverse geography, climates, microbes, plants, animals kingdom has its diversities of lifeforms, so does humankind comes in diversities (Race, Language, Cultures) also!

[@mcfly2410]

Ughh, I shrugged when Masaman pronounced Kabyle as in "kab-BILE". NO, it's pronounced as "KAB-beel"! Lol

[@giana7796]

Its pronounced kabili

[@champfox1]

Entertaining, educational and factual, great work!

[@aimenelhabry6178]

We are all Amazigh because we are born in an amazigh land, I am from an Arabic-speaking family, but we found that we have amazigh ancestry, so I am an Amazigh-Arab.

[@aurifurdenifur3693]

I'm a Moroccan just like you, as far as you are a Moroccan. I speak four languages, but that doesn't make me Amazigh-Dutch-German-English.

[@aimenelhabry6178]

Aurifur Denifur I am amazigh, Arab, and Italian, because I am born in Italy. But my parents are Moroccans.

[@aurifurdenifur3693]

"but we found that we have amazigh ancestry, so I am an Amazigh-Arab." If you find that you have Amazigh ancestry, you are Amazigh. If your sentence was like "but we found that we have amazigh and arab ancestry, so I am an Amazigh-Arab", than your claim to be an Arab was more plausible. My parents were born in Morocco, but I'm not an Arab.

[@moroccanalmoravid1510]

Aimen the Moroccan thaiboxer El Habry Salamualaikum tfjijt agmano? Ciao fratello amazigh musulmano come stai bene? Salmualaykum a khuya kidayr labas 3lik Hey brother how are you ? I am a moroccan berber too! And like you i live in italy. I speak 4 languages very well Alhamdulillah! ! Stammi bene frate ; ) siamo imazighen e fieri di esserlo! Hahaha

[@aimenelhabry6178]

Mr One salam aleikum fratello, azul fellak ayamazigh, ti ringrazio, per quello che hai detto. IMAZIGHEN per tutta la vita, che Dio ti benedica. Dalle Canarie all'Egitto TAMAZGHA è la nostra terra. Saluti dalla città di Lucca.

[@paulphelps7809]

Thank you for a very interesting analysis of north-African people. With all the intermixing of genetics thru history, it seems the variety is increasing.

[@faycaldjellali920]

It’s so crazy in algeria u could find blonde people like my dad

[@user-wk2uf5yo7x]

No it's due to diverse climates

[@ARSLENE]

Good video you explain that well, as a Tunisian I'm still confused about genes in north africa lmao

[@alphaamadusow7641]

Am from West Africa An am proud to be an African

[@JcDizon]

I was watching a DNA results for a Sudanese woman who was part of the "Arab" group. She was a mixture of East African and North African mostly but less than 1% Arabian peninsula.

[@mweskamppp]

the arab influence on north africa is mainly cultural not so much genetically. the army that conquered spain was nearly complete berber people.

[@scarymonster5541]

And the arabs being commander

[@mweskamppp]

@@scarymonster5541 Gibraltar is named after the berber general Tariq. Gebr al Tariq - Gibraltar. There was no master and serve. the islam idea was so attractive because all muslim in the "umma" were supposed to be equal. a very important aspect - the overcome of tribalism. people who did not convert to islam but stayed to their believes of the bible - jews and christians - were accepted but secondary and had to pay extra tax. other religions were not accepted.

[@scarymonster5541]

@@mweskamppp yes i know that

[@FireGodSlayer]

@@scarymonster5541 The arabs weren't commanders. THEY did jack shit. It was the moor berbers.

[@scarymonster5541]

​@@FireGodSlayer No if you do your research more and more you will know the commanders are arabs in origin

[@texasgina]

Thank you for this video

[@rossiraissouli8606]

I dont know from where you are getting tour stuff, but Berbers or Amazigh are not arabs, the famous berber genetic signature starts with A1b1, on the other hand the arabs genetic starts with j1. The arab influence on the si calked Maghreb countries are cultural, but not genetic. im close to many Moroccans and Algerians where i live in the US, many of them that thought were arabs myself included, after our genetic tests we found out That we are Berbers, i hava not not met anyone from the Maghreb with any arab genetics in him.Personnaly im 55% berber, 35% iberian, 3% italian, 2% germanic, and the rest southern european not identified.

[@uberikea3162]

I have 31% of Arabic blood and I'm Algerian.

[@dalmardaadjecel4647]

Where do you think e1b1b came from? Somalia as Somali has the pures and highest frequency in the world.. your original ancestors came from Somalia and your mix.. skin color is subject to change but not y chromosomes .. it’s original in Horn of Africa and I don’t understand why you call it Berber dna when it’s clearly called somalid

[@albaida8539]

I'll explain who this is: -It is from the USA -analyze the races of the people He is the worst person who could dedicate himself to this: -We do not know if it is to make your PERSONAL MAP OF DISCRIMINATION -or is he really scared of physical differences Seen from the outside it looks like a tarao, in loco

[@carbon6951]

You can't tell that LIE anymore!!! The 15,000 year oldest nuclear DNA recently discovered in Morocco, North Africa proves your statements to be FALSE.. The 9 ancient specimen remains found in North Africa were 63% Tafiralt Middle Eastern DNA, and 36% so-called Sub-Saharan West African DNA which places West Africans in Northern Africa over 15,000 years ago... Also, the study has proven ancient North Africans 15,000 years ago had more Sub-Saharan West African DNA than they have today.. (There goes the "Slave Theory Lie" you guys have been riding on for years). This study also shows North Africans had absolutely ZERO European admixtures 15,000 yrs ago, unlike the substantial amount they possess today.. The research discovery is called "The Oldest Nuclear DNA Found In Africa." The findings are not hard to find seeing that it's plastered on every respectable scientific research site and magazine. The carbon dating and DNA analysis was done by the University of Oxford along with several "white" researchers from Sweden and England.. NO AFROCENTRICS!!!!!! That's called CHECKMATE!!!!! BTW, I'm originally from Mali 🇲🇱.

[@ReVoX161]

are you Moroccan ?

[@TheKeksadler]

Hopefully this video will help settle the Afro-Centrist problem that's been pervasive in the comment section of all your videos. Blacks, generally with W. African blood, claiming that Egypt/North Africa were Black(W. African) is about as absurd as the idea of Whites claiming the Japanese are descended from Indo-Europeans because of the Ainu.

[@RoniForeva]

I'm west Africa and I am so over the Afrocentrists. to me they are crazy plain and simple. Most west Africans see north Africans are white we even call them that and we are fine with it. I don't get what these afro-centrists problem is. its not enough they don't know their history they have to make up fairy tales to substitute it.

[@user-eo7wx2zr4n]

Roni you're west African, what country are you from. also no one tries to call them black. they aren't white either. they are a mixture of various empires. From Romans to Arabs to Nubians to indegenous north African. The same way you can find white Tunisiand, you can also find afro Moroccans and afro Egyptians. This isn't fantasy lol, they literally exist so just look them up. the problem is people try to discount or subvert their black influence. but have no problem to acknowledge Romans that came for a short time and left while the black population has always been next door providing a constant Gene flow to the southern areas.

[@lialanikaija7127]

The Keksadler I'm black american and fuck all race supremacists centrists. I dont listen to one bit of them.

[@TheEmadia]

. I also wonder which West African country he hails from...

[@TheEmadia]

The Keksadler odd how thunderously silent some remain in the face of EUROCENTISM & EUROCENTICS, masquerading as normal, rational and informed people.

[@Scottdent213]

love this content man wow

[@matembweremuzimbamunhumumw8505]

good knowledge bro thanks

[@yassersami]

An excellent effort was done in this review! Trustworthy genealogy records and encyclopedias in addition to evidence from modern DNA testing can shed a lot of light on these historical matters. Thank you!

[@ayoub6274]

North Africans are AMAZIGH Berber ,not arabe it's amazigh race ,we did not came from me middile east ,we re the indigenous of north Africa ,our paternal haplogroup is Em 81 native in north Africa , correct Ur mistake Anthropology is not just start filming

[@hazatrotestikas888]

How is Berber a race

[@mrvoy8215]

There is no amazigh race .. you look like middle Eastern

[@timvanrijn8239]

@@hazatrotestikas888 how hispainic a race

[@AyeeeItsCam]

Amazigh is not a race

[@timvanrijn8239]

@@AyeeeItsCam what is it then?

[@perishal]

Great video appreciate it

[@abundantlifeministries166]

All I know is we are like the colours of the rainbow beautiful with different types of people embrace and be happy

[@norexplorer865]

Finally a positive comment without useless arguments and toxicity. Thank you

[@terrysimmons1873]

That's what makes us all beautiful! Mixing.

[@enotsnavdier6867]

Can I get a better color of the rainbow? I'm so white that a few minutes in the sun turns me red lol.

[@nonot63]

I'm moroccan berber and I've made a DNA test. I'm 90% North African, 6% subsaharian african and 4% southern european. So not so mixed after all

[@nonot63]

Redsq Rds No I didn't. Thanks, you tought me something ✌

[@jbaron8120]

nonot63 So no Middle East DNA? Surprising most East African have at least 40% Middle Eastern and 10% North African. So they must be more Arab than you lol

[@nonot63]

J Baron No I don't have middle eastern DNA according to this test. But that's not surprising to me 'cause the majority of Moroccans don't have middle eastern DNA. We might be considered arabian but our ancestry is at least 80% berber.

[@jbaron8120]

nonot63 Surprising why most other North African have Arab ancestry? So would you consider East Africans Afro or half Arabs?

[@jbaron8120]

Redsq Rds The levant people like the Lebanese that have phonecian DNA still have Arab ancestry and a bit of North African dna. More like Libyan and Egypt than Morocco

[@friendlycreature6375]

In Algeria we have Arabs Berbers Turkish Jews Europeans Gypsy Vikings ( minority ) ( indians and chinese heavily been immigrating here for work ) The point is with time we got all mixed , we can't stop this from happening ^^ why do we fight over our races !?

[@jbaron8120]

Khãlïlø L'Årgêlīnø Just watch out for the Chinese and Indian they will heavily mix in with your country. As they are many in number they always look for a new country to live in.

[@friendlycreature6375]

J Baron So true haha i recently started seeing in my university Students with Asian faces haha but they were born here The thing is their countries couldn't handle all of'em so they started coming to countries that have small population

[@kronixbb3748]

Because bro , not everybody wants to be mixed you know , they want to perserve theyr cultural , race, religion and etc , but if you mixe with someone that have similiar race with you , your son will be much equal

[@jackiebrownnn]

LOL So you talked bout the vikings -.- the indians and all... how come you forgot the black african roots? there are black algerians !

[@friendlycreature6375]

Jackie B there are black among The Arabs and Jews mixed with Sub-Saharian south Algeria i was stating races in my comment up there not skin colors in general.

[@geminiangel2867]

Ok since everyone is a genetic expert in the comments, I’m Libyan. My dad and his family come from Al-Khoms (an area with great amounts of Italian influence from their conquest) and my mom and her family come from Derna and I remember her telling me her family ancestry was linked with the Ashraf (the people who descended from prophet Muhammad عليه الصلاة والسلام) and she once told me her family surname was also found commonly in Spain (Andalusia, to be exact) and I also remember her once telling me that her great grandfather or something like that, used to trade a lot around different areas in the world and marry and have kids in every country so. I’d say I have somewhat dark skin. I’m not sure if I tan easily but my mom had the same/similar skin tone as me when she was young but nowadays she’s quite pale. She was born pale so I suppose she just tans easily. As for me, I was born with my dark skin like my father and 90% of his family. My grandfather (mom’s side) was pale as well and he was Libyan but grew up in some part of his life in Egypt. My grandmother (mom’s side again) is Egyptian from Alexandria and she has quite the same skin tone as me. It’s a very mixed family, but I’d like to hear any predictions about where my heritage could be from from this info (if that’s actually possible) until I actually get my hands on a dna kit that ships to Libya.

[@r0ckstar666]

I live in USA and I am of Persian descent. Point is humans travel all over the world and soon to other planets like MARS

[@cooptars7338]

good information ... just to highlight that two important migrations in history had big impact on the region : the phenician migrations around 1200 BC and hilali arab migrations from the 11th centry ...

[@MrLoxstock]

Amazigh/Imazighen people are a culture composed of different ethnic groups, just like the Arabs, the Romans, the Persians, the British ...etc. Here is a small list of how the colour breaks down in some Amazigh tribes: Rifis(whites) Soussi (brown and black) Chleuh (white, brown and black) Hassanis (brown and black), kbailis (whites), Mzabis(brown), Chwawa (white and brown), Touareg (brown and black), Siwi Berbers of Egypt (brown) In summary the North Africans are at least 80% imazighen in cultural origin, ranging from white to black, it's a culture that has a genetic common denominator the E1b1b haplogroup, that's at least 40k years old originating in the Horn of Africa. Due to the geographical position of North Africa mixing was bound to be eminent as its at one of the most strategic parts of the world (Mediterranean/Europe to the north , Middle East/levant to the east , Atlantic ocean to the west , Red Sea to the east opening to the Indian Ocean, Sahara desert and all the Bantu cultures to the south) created what is today the current ethnic and cultural mixing that exist in this part of the world. Currently the "culture" is predominantly Arabic, as it's the official and bureaucratic language used in all the countries of the north of Africa, Islam is also de predominant religion in the region at over 90% in most countries but having said that, Amazigh people still feel very proud of their heritage, still speak their languages, practice their ancestral customs and eat their customary foods. In Morocco for example the most famously dynasties of the last 1400 years have been Amazigh, the "Almoravids" originally from modern day Mauritania formally the "Greater Morocco", and the "Almohads" from the North East of Morocco, and contrary to common belief, most of the "Arab" influence the region has come from a very late migration of the two nomadic Tribes of Banu Hilal and Banu Hassan who where Arab refugees that settled in the region about 500 years ago approximately with very little political power or dominance, they mostly inhabit parts of Algeria, Morocco and Libya and their influence on the greater Amazigh population is limited barring the mixing that has accrued and continuous to occur to date. To understand properly the region one has to refrain from applying Eurocentristic/Afrocentristic outlook in a land mass that has had its own unique socio-geo-political development and evolution.

[@MrLoxstock]

Massin amazigh Hey clever clogs!... if the Soussis of the Meknassa tribe of Sijilmassa are not brown and Black you must have your eyes examined, most people in the Rachidiya region are either light skinned brown, brown or black barring a small minority. The Tafilalt region is notorious for its brown and black inhabitants silly boy, now don't be a racist and stop discriminating against the brown and black Amazigh beautiful people. Peace 🙏🏽

[@MrLoxstock]

Redsq Rds it's clearly stated on my commentary that the "Almoravid" Dynasty were from of the greater Morocco of old and modern day Mauritanian, but thanks for the futile reminder!

[@mohamedred5746]

MrLoxstock The almoravids are moroccans there is nothing called "mouritania" and their capital was Marrakrch... Its was moroccan caliphate...

[@jean-louispech4921]

MrLoxstock Genetic shows that most of the north africans have little to do with west africans, moroco has more than others because this is a natural road between norht africa and sub-saharaian africa.

[@rouskeycarpel8652]

MrLoxstock Berbers are a race unto themselves.

[@JUBA524]

I'm north African Algerian berber and most of Algerians are Berbers. ......proud of being Amazigh free men

[@dragenmaster5385]

@@joshmilo8523 u wot we are not even arabs so i dont care say whatever u want about arabs as long as ur not talking about imazighen

[@Mad-wv6ol]

@@joshmilo8523 You are a incel bassment dwellers loser the white mans after birth.

[@joshmilo8523]

@tashla. Ever heard of the ottoman, Barbary or Tatar slave trade? Over 8,000,000 whites were enslaved in the Middle East and North Africa up until the 1850’s, the only reason it ended was bc the French colonised Algeria to stop the pirate ships that were raiding coastal European villages. You are prob too low IQ’d to understand history.

[@josphejean4276]

@@joshmilo8523 and how do you know how high my IQ is 🤔?

[@joshmilo8523]

I don’t but the average of your people is pretty retarded, just look at how uncivilised your shit hole countries are. That’s what happens when you inbred for 1000 years

[@nadanaa9468]

Im amazigh from Morocco , and my skin is too white and I'm blonde girl , and also my whole family , in both sides , my dad has blue eyes and we are one hundred percent pure Imazighn , and I'm exactly from atlas , and in the atlas mountains there is just blond people with blue and green eyes ⵣ🇲🇦.

[@user-ly8nf4ir2d]

blablabla you can tell what you want, but you don t know the thruth

[@nadanaa9468]

@@user-ly8nf4ir2d Yeah z No one Knows the Truth , but why did you say that ?

[@ALWAYS_FIGHT_THE_OPRESSOR]

@@user-ly8nf4ir2d ISLAM IS BACK IN SPAIN.......YOU ARE A RACIST

[@officialbenzine4075]

Your ancestors we're europeans then obviously

[@ALWAYS_FIGHT_THE_OPRESSOR]

@@officialbenzine4075 FROM ADAM AND EVE

[@clivealbert1646]

Thank you for your navigation brother speak of the video

[@Palestine4Ever169]

Clive Albert Lmao What kinda of drugs made you like this nigga ?

[@RoccosVideos]

Good video, as always.

[@Masaman]

Thank you. Most civil comment I've seen so far. I don't believe in censorship, but maybe I should clean up my comment section?

[@nicholas8081]

Yes, I think 80 percent of your comments are, unfortunately, unproductive and/or offensive, and need to be deleted. You have a classy, sophisticated channel, but your comment section is a blight.

[@Artorias1234]

Masaman Please don't do that, freedom of speech also includes opinions who are not very comfortable or Well articulated. And besides, nobody hates on your content or you as person.

[@Nevermind301]

videos with such a subject usually attract this kind of comments. Although annoying, I would suggest to not delete anything just yet

[@add1cc]

Masaman Hello, where did you get that thumbnail or picture of those 4 people in the beginning of the video? You know the girls name? Thanks

[@fleur_du_azahar]

Berbers and egyptians don’t come from middle eastern It is the other way around Plus berbers were already set in north Africa -2000 before J.C as you can see on ancient egyptian fresks Arabs invaded yes but were actually a minority Most of northern african have at least 70% berber blood

[@exillens]

Wait, what's a "middle eastern look"? What's an Arab look? What's the racial make up of an arab or middle eastern? This video presents "arabs" or "middle eastern" as a race when some of us know better. Again wtf is an arab or middle eastern?

[@arabicman9811]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@brahimkhaim2344]

You are absolutely right

[@palermotrapani9067]

Actually, it goes even further back than that See academic article from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S. www.pnas.org/content/115/26/6774

[@user-kf8rw7cn8v]

@@exillens people of middle east are for most of them phenicians or semitic

[@michaelvickery5547]

Well presented.

[@ilyas_elouchihi]

as a Moroccan, i've always been so surprised by the variety in here. you have black, brown, white and blonde and even people with asian facial features.

[@edwinhughesjr]

This guy is my new history teacher

[@akselti6424]

My DNA test say that iam 83 % north African (amazigh).. Thank god. Iam very thankful for been an amazing

[@teksav5248]

👍

[@amandaamanda554]

@@teksav5248 wtfff He's just proud to be a North african what's wrong w/ that ?

[@youceftoun6300]

Stupid there no DNA from North African you are stupid they take an exemple of modern people you are so stupid

[@user-me105]

هههههههههههه غجرية مسكينة

[@Alexander-tu3iv]

@@youceftoun6300 Wow your comment gave me cancer. If you're going to call someone stupid three times in a row atleast have a basic grasp of genetics. Yes genetic tests are done on modern people but the way it works is that tests measure for haplotypes which have a pretty reliant rate of mutation which can be used to determine when they diverged from others, then there's frequency, basically how common a haplotype is in a certain region. The haplotype e1b1b forexample is very frequent in North Africa, more in the West than the east suggesting it originated there and then spread eastwards. I hope your comment doesn't mean you're a Negro centrist as that's a losing proposition. Ancient skulls in the region clearly show that prehistoric people were morphologicaly similar to modern North Africans in fact mechtoid skulls predate known Negroid skulls by 30.000 years. So to claim that blacks of west African type lived in Africa before the Berbers or people related to the Berbers did is laughable. In fact parts of the Sahara in Niger were inhabited by Mediterranean type people, the Tenerians by 4600 BC. And the people that preceded them, the Kiffians were of the Mechtoid phenotype, meaning related to cro-magnon man in Europe.

[@siyabongaskhosana7782]

Honestly, nationality matters more now than race ever will. We keep mixing either in small Increments or greatly but we still try to preserve something that doesn't really matter. Let's capture different cultures for historic appreciation and keep it moving.

[@homerelesperance2857]

Well said.

[@retardadem4459]

Well it's ur opinion but for an Algerian i think that nationalities did nothing but separate us muslims which

[@exposeevil5492]

Maybe you all should see Webster's dictionary. Race is interchangeable with Nation.

[@JayReaction530]

You must not be an American

[@riverandforest765]

race matters, you don't want to be asian, they have small p3nis

[@JackHanma]

Its very difficult To classify people in term of colors. My grand mom was from Mali and was not " black" : most likely long haired with light reddish brown skin, looking more like a Tuareg. She was from Fulani people. I'm very dark skin and my daughter who is mixed ( Subsaharian african, French and Eastern Europe) looks exactly like my grandma.

[@zuricon1925]

im also fulani.

[@julieiacono5655]

I'm white/yellow/brown/red

[@jayd4ever]

so you married a mixed race women

[@CarlosMachado-ov6id]

Got a subscriber from Portugal!

[@loulouhj1104]

im tunisian and i dont look arab or black .i have slanted eyes and olive skin town .when i went to Malaysia they thought im pan chinese lol ! But i do believe Tunisians and Algerians have a substantial turkish influence ! We need to accept that we are mix of arabs ,berbers ,turks,european an black africans .

[@moorishmoroccan5324]

you're a berber.

[@MrNomad-vy8yl]

@MO MO Abbasids settled Turks to North Africa, and the Ottomans followed this policy. The reason why western Turks have little east Asian dna is, that they have mixed with Middle Eastern and European population, while eastern Turks mixed with Chinese and Mongolians.

[@libandem3338]

Yeah it's true

[@amazigh8087]

Yeah i think there is a certain type that every mediteraneean has. However, this beautiful mix of mediteranean blood is often called "arab", which is wrong, i think.

[@roansteve6264]

Im moroccan in i have green eyes end blonde hair idk how .

[@csx3180]

I love you man,nothing but facts,a follower from morocco

[@1Ma9iN8tive]

Dr Shomarka Omar Keita’s research speaks insightfully to this subject matter as does Sheikh Danjuma Bihari and many, many, many others.

[@aot_tn]

As a Tunisian, i can confirm that what you just watched ladies and gentlemen is nothing more than lies, ignorance and bullshit. In North Africa 1- We speak either Berber or arabic dialects highly influenced by Berber dialects, a proper arab can barely understand couple of words when we we try to make communication. 2- We eat Berber food. 3- We wear Berber. 4- We dance Berber. 5- Our music is Berber. 6- Our history and heritage are Berber. 7- Our genes are mostly Berber, in Tunisia we are only 4% arab and 88% Berber according to the last Nat geo study. Please reconsider your sources, that's really insulting. You're either too Pan arabism biased or just ignoring North Africa.

[@last5898]

Genomic analysis has found that Berber and other Maghreb communities are defined by a shared ancestral component. This Maghrebi element peaks among Tunisian Berbers. It is related to the Coptic/Ethio-Somali ancestral component, having diverged from these and other West Eurasian-affiliated components prior to the Holocene.

[@aot_tn]

We North African Amazigh are under E-m81(E1b1b1b), Egyptians are under E-m78 (E1b1b1a) so we are like you said related directly under E-m35 . I'm aware of some academic studies about the fact that migration back to Africa from Eurasia took place during the Palaeolithic. But at the same time new discoveries in Morocco and Algerian desert and DNA reports on mummies prove that the North African Human presence is so much older.

[@TuNiSiA-TaMaZiGhT]

Very True

[@QueenQueenly]

North Africans are sooooo beautiful physically. Many attractive people there

[@shawnaali4823]

Queen Queenly InSHÀ Allah 😘

[@2010ikrame]

Thanks😁

[@malikkawaii7694]

Queen Queenly Thank you :) From a French-Algerian.

[@anonymoussssssssssss3944]

Queen Queenly thanks baby do you have snapchat or instagram

[@iBOXRIVER]

Not being rude but there are ALOT of them here in london and NOBODY finds them beautiful, attractive or desirable. A lot of them have dark circles around their eyes too for some odd reason. Why is this ???

[@Ibriden]

Berbers consider their language, Tamazight, as one. There are many Berber/Amazigh dialects. There is a dialectal continuum of Berber/Amazigh dialects stretching between Djebel Nefoussa, in northwestern Libya, to northern Morocco (Rif region) and crossing the Tell Atlas mountains of northern Algeria. All the speakers of these dialects can understand each other.

[@bilelabderrahmane2720]

fake news

[@zinebakrouh6746]

Its true shut the f up​@@bilelabderrahmane2720

[@malemon1]

Copt here, glad we got a mention!

[@izemamazigh7930]

Tunisia was an example from north Africa for a DNA study .. there is more European blood in there than Arab .. Tunisia is over 80% north African Amazigh ..; and its definitely more than that in Morocco and Algeria.

[@mathfacile6665]

genographic.nationalgeographic.com/reference-populations-next-gen/ its more than 80.vive imazighen of tunisia and north africa

[@dzdz6102]

Izem Amazigh hell no i don’t think in algeria we’re black and in morocco they’re the real amazigh but tunisian are not at all berber they’re more arab

[@SeptimiusAfer240]

@@dzdz6102 We have more pourcentage of Arab Dna in Tunisia comparing to Algeria and Morocco. But on the national scale, we are more amazigh than arab. And we are much more diverse than the rest of North Africa.

[@yadjisnarrif3167]

With all my respect to Tunisian brothers but i dont think its true. Tunisian Imazighen have been more mixed than those of Morocco and Algeria.When it comes to dna tests both of my Tunisian friends found Persian dna, which surprises me...Btw Azul from an Amazigh Rifian sister ✌♓

[@abc-wz4fg]

@@yadjisnarrif3167 doesnt matter as long majority of ur dna is amazigh north africa, even the riffian got some ibiria, italy and ashkinazi in them, does that means are not amazigh?

[@newanimatedboss]

To sum it up North Africa are mixed with black sub Saharan African and Arabs and Europeans and many other regional ethnicities this pretty much sum up the video

[@solid1378]

Yep. There was a lot of fvcking going on.

[@catdeluxeatday]

Yes.

[@anoni1389]

But thats Bs. Berbers are not arabic.

[@exillens]

Wait, what's a "middle eastern look"? What's an Arab look? What's the racial make up of an arab or middle eastern? This video presents "arabs" or "middle eastern" as a race when some of us know better. Again wtf is an arab or middle eastern?

[@exillens]

@@Killallidiotsnow Makes sense

[@69MHz]

Im somali and i took ancestry dna test just for the laugh. It turns out i am 72% Somali 14% Middle East 9% North African, 3% west African and 2% Chinese 😂

[@yaqoubalshatti205]

Wow 😂

[@yakko7737]

hm might be dna of stranded Chinese sailors suring the ming dynasty

[@bhka6423]

Somalis are a black-caucasoid mix.

[@carolinesky1645]

Fascinating! I'm exited to do the same just for fun and personal knowledge .

[@whatishesaying4708]

I'm moroccan but I have the same skin color as Northern Spanish people so I would really like to see where my dna comes from and to sort of figure out my history.

[@oumchar]

Just out curiosity I did my DNA test and as a Moroccan I have 94% Moroccan and the rest subsaharian and European. But to me all humans are the same till they prove otherwise.

[@chi111y]

Hey man respect for trying to cover one of if no the oldest areas for human existence. I think you did a good job covering the modern make up of the area and how it came to be. I think the people in the comment sections are more so upset about the historical context. I mentioned this in a previous video, but the term Middle Eastern is relatively new in regards to the region as it was created by Americans in the 1940's. When talking about Egypt, there were many periods such as Dynastic, Pre Dynastic, Megalithic, Hellenistic, etc. Also you touched on the Arab invasion AKA Caliphates starting in the 600's. Furthermore we should note that North Africa and the Mediterranean area in general has always been diverse and a major trading area. So many cultures would interact as it connects Europe Asia and Africa. I think where most debates and confusion stems is from the vocabulary that we use. Such as Africa, Asia, and Middle East. However those could probably be covered in another video or conversation.

[@nadirsehiri8041]

You made a video about North Africa, could you please make one specifically about Algeria?

[@m.l.720]

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@eugenes496]

Great job

[@ayadhyist]

The fact that this even is a debate proves that race is a social construct.