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**carinsurancess** · 11-03-2011, 01:55 AM

I think her point is that people in north Africa (and Africa as a whole) identify ethnically/regionally. I know for a fact there are color descriptors in Mauritania and Morocco, but there's much more emphasis on regional identification. E.g., soussa are soussi, drawa are draoui, people that live south of Morocco proper consider themselves sahraoui, etc. Or you have urban designations, like Bidaoui, R'bati, Tanjaoui, etc.

Souss identify as souss ethnically but they identify as white souss and black souss because they are racially/phenotypically heterogenous and color in NA is more important than what you think a caucasoid soussi would feel racially more closer to a Rifi than to a black soussi

11-03-2011, 01:55 AM	#17
carinsurancess Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 404 Senior Member	I think her point is that people in north Africa (and Africa as a whole) identify ethnically/regionally. I know for a fact there are color descriptors in Mauritania and Morocco, but there's much more emphasis on regional identification. E.g., soussa are soussi, drawa are draoui, people that live south of Morocco proper consider themselves sahraoui, etc. Or you have urban designations, like Bidaoui, R'bati, Tanjaoui, etc. Souss identify as souss ethnically but they identify as white souss and black souss because they are racially/phenotypically heterogenous and color in NA is more important than what you think a caucasoid soussi would feel racially more closer to a Rifi than to a black soussi
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