Matiunz
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Was talking to an Egyptian whilst in Egypt about a similar subject, you’re correct in the sense that ethnicity as it is now isn’t as defined. He described it from an Egyptian POV due to location and history they see themselves as a little bit of each of Mediterranean/Arab/African.The funny thing is that the ancient Egyptians did not care much for color. To them light and dark Egyptians were all Egyptians. Racism did not exist as a concept in that era.
Prejudice existed based on cast and religion and other divisions of societies but if we look at the Egyptians own illustrative works of their society, people were all shades of brown through to very brown or what modern people call black now.
Well that is what the science shows too, although it may be possible to be more definitive as dna science evolves.
I do not know the Cleopatra documentary you speak of, but it is a well accepted fact that ethnically she was Greek Egyptian hey,
but her subjects were not white....and I notice no one complaining about all the white actors with makeup on who have played Egyptians in all the old Hollywood films over the years.
They were not white people either.
Many see Africa as ‘Black’ when in truth there’s more diversity on the continent than many realise, take the contrast between North Africans and Sun Saharan Africans for example. Even Europe/Asian is technically the same landmass and there are vast differences in peoples on that single landmass.