Well, Turks and arabs have made and ruled big empires, stretching from south europe to the heart of africa, and from Jabal Al tariq to India and West china. So, we have many real stuff to be proud of. It's not the case for every nation though.
In general, Arabs and turks have no problems, rather have been friends. Always, Al-ahwaz arab activists interview with our(South Azeri) media, like Gunaz TV, ... and our relations with them is literally the best among all ethnic groups of Iran.
If a person has nothing to be proud of, he would tend to develop weird inferiority complexes. Their Aryan BS, is the most hilarious one.
The funniest thing of all is that we Arabs/Semites are Caucasian people and always were that. We also always took pride in our skin color and even wrote that in poems, literature etc. All this can be researched easily. I even think that the Wikipedia page concerning the "White Race" and "Caucasian race" mentions this directly and it is also sourced material.
Just like all other native ME populations. Even European racial "experts" and anthropologists categorized us racially together with the nearby "Mediterranean peoples" outside of very few differences mostly in terms of nuances of skin color. Obviously those categorizations are what they are but it says a lot and obviously shatters that Indians nonsense. It was written during the times when racial theories were popular and all non-Western people were looked down upon.
Arabid race - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Caucasian race - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
White people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nor do they understand this:
Afro-Arab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arab slave trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It's their people who have complexes in this regard and they are also famous for this. Hence the big consumption of lightening creams. I am not saying that you can't find that among us ME people, you can, but they are mostly a minority and are ridiculed.
Also as a mixed person of Arab/ME and European ancestry I do not believe in a "pure race" firstly nor "racial superiority" but I do believe that certain peoples/civilizations had greater cultures/more impact than others. I don't think that this makes me a racist.
Another thing that annoys me is that there is a ton of Indian users (there are also many good Indian users) have a habit of meddling in internal ME affairs and mostly those persons are EXTREMELY ignorant. On the other hand I am yet to see a single ME person caring about their internal events. As usual they are discussing with the Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans and obviously the Chinese.
Arabs and Turks are brotherly people and have had close ties throughout history. We are also neighbors. Arabs and Turks have very excellent ties in Europe and operate businesses together etc. I often frequent a restaurant here in Copenhagen that makes ME cuisine and it is co-owned by Arabs and Turks and the personal is exclusively that too.
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xenon54 can confirm what I say about those Indian trolls and @
BronzePlaque I think has a relative or sister even that is married with an Moroccan Arab and he also knows the differences between Arabs of Morocco and the Berbers there. Correct me if I am wrong here my friend but are Berbers not the majority among the Moroccan immigrant group in the Netherlands? @
BronzePlaque
Farsis are also a hilarious bunch. They have been heavily influenced by us Semites before the appearance of Islam (culturally, in terms of architecture, music, religious Gods, alphabet (Phoenician) language (Aramaic was adopted as a state language) and they also ironically found our areas so interesting that they occupied Iraq, Eastern Arabia, Yemen, Oman, parts of Levant and Egypt. Although they only controlled Egypt, Levant, Yemen for a short while. Also they were influenced and ruled by Turkic peoples for a long time too.
Let's not even talk about what happened after this had occurred.
Muslim conquest of Persia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Wikipedia is a really bad source. You need books about the history of the ME, Arab world, Semitic peoples (which Arabs are a part of) and read up on genetics etc.
I don't know where they get those 2 million Arabs in Sri Lanka from? I really have to read up on that. Is there any source and what kind of source is used? I don't know much about Sri Lanka aside from the basics. Will have to study it.