What’s tonight’s lotto numbers?They're African. Period.
But you're probably about to get a bunch of smart-dumb responses based on folks' feelings.
There’s more than one ethnic group in Morocco, admixture within ethnic groups, more than one haplogroup, and there’s no context behind why that specific haplogroup is highlighted.People from Morocco have very little Arab admixture & genetically they’re closer to West Africans than any other group. Their haplogroup is below:
The only Arab influence there is the fact that they’re mostly Muslims (that came with the Ottoman Empire) & some of them speak Arabic. However, the overwhelming majority of them speak Berber languages. And Berbers are all over North & West Africa & they come in different shades - from very light, to very dark skin shades.
A lot of the admixture in Morocco has a lot to do with European migration due to its proximity to Iberian peninsula - not cos they’re Arabs.
Most of the people from Morocco I see online are also saying they’re Africans not Arabs. Ditto all the Moroccans I know.
So, what does The Coli think?
are you saying that turkey is more tolerant of other people? cause i was just there and i would not say that at allThey're not Arabs the same way Persians and Turks arent Arabs. They're as African as it gets, Berbers arent even close to Arabs on any genetic marker, they're closer related to Sudanese or Eritreans than Arabs. The reason they're lighter is because of endless wars, conquest and slave trading between them and Southern Europe for thousands of years.
End result = South Euros (Spain, Portugal, Italy) became darker and learned some African things other Euros didnt (how to season food, how to dance, extremely religious in comparison) and the Morroccans became lighter in skin tone and more tolerant of other people than the other Muslim countries in comparison with the exception of Turkey, less oppressive on women compared to like Saudi or Qatar.
Moroccans are African though, no doubt. They're closer related to Euros than Arabs but even the whitest ones would be around 30 to 40 percent African genetically. Probably more so than modern Egyptians.