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**mealiusarses** · 11-02-2011, 10:27 PM

This is soo true, North-Africans don't identify by Colours such as black or white, but by tribe or region.

they do at least in Morocco,Algeria and Egypt
in Morocco for example they use "byad" white "kehal" black "mkhalet" mixed and many others
for example If there's a group of caucasoid looking Moroccans and next to them there's a group of Gnawa they would call one group "byad" and the other "Kouhal" or If there are two Souss Moroccans one looks "white"( in the MENA context )and the other soussi looks black( in the MENA context )then we'd call the caucasoid soussi "byad" and the negroid soussi "kehal" to differentiate those 2 soussi berbers

11-02-2011, 10:27 PM	#14
mealiusarses Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 379 Senior Member	This is soo true, North-Africans don't identify by Colours such as black or white, but by tribe or region. they do at least in Morocco,Algeria and Egypt in Morocco for example they use "byad" white "kehal" black "mkhalet" mixed and many others for example If there's a group of caucasoid looking Moroccans and next to them there's a group of Gnawa they would call one group "byad" and the other "Kouhal" or If there are two Souss Moroccans one looks "white"( in the MENA context )and the other soussi looks black( in the MENA context )then we'd call the caucasoid soussi "byad" and the negroid soussi "kehal" to differentiate those 2 soussi berbers
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