US Politics on Yik Yak | The idea that gulf Arabs during the caliphate era genetically replaced the MENA region is completely false. Arab is just a linguistic/cultural identity. Modern Muslim Arab populations in MENA show strong continuity to their respective ancient populations

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The idea that gulf Arabs during the caliphate era genetically replaced the MENA region is completely false. Arab is just a linguistic/cultural identity. Modern Muslim Arab populations in MENA show strong continuity to their respective ancient populations

US Politics 9w

So are Palestinians mostly just ethnic Jews who converted to Islam

Anonymous 9w

That’s why there are different Arab identities differentiated by the dialect of Arab they speak and also which native groups they were mixing with. The Peninsular Arabs, or Gulf Arabs, have the least outside influence, the Levantine Arabs were influenced by and mixed with the Greeks, Canaanites, and Bedouins of the Levant, and the North African Arabs were influenced by and mixed with the Berbers and in some cases the Copts though this was less common as the Copts preferred to pay the jizya

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And I think it’s a bad reading of the history to equate the modern Palestinian people with the Canaanites who inhabited the region dating back millennia because that reading neglects the cultural, linguistic, and genetic influences of the Arab conquest of the region. I think this for the same reason I always think it’s dumb when modern white nationalists call themselves Anglo-Saxons, the group of people that name represents are now defunct