Yup, it;s nonsense because it's an old map. Great logic.
You are all over the place. That map is useless because the data on it is useless as any informed person would know. Nor do we know anything about the data behind. My examples speaks for themselves and no Senegalese, Ivorians, people of Togo, Darfur, Chad etc. are by no means even remotely related or have even remotely the same skin color as people of Yemen, half of Arabia and half of Iran. I don't even want to waste more seconds of my life on arguing why that is.
Your nonsense of African tribes being diverse is useless nonsense as everyone knows that all Sub-Saharan Africans, expect Horners (who have Middle Eastern ancestry as confirmed by DNA and their physical features and appearances) look very much alike in terms of skin color. In particular West Africans.
Next thing you will tell me is that Bangladeshis are lighter than people of Arabia and that South Indians are lighter skinned than people of Sham.
Look, I could not care less about skin color but when ignorants here are writing nonsense about my people (Arabs) and try to propagandize nonsense, I will react like any other sane people.
I would act similarly if a clown here or elsewhere would claim that Arabs on average looked like this:
@Tergon18
You are cherry-picking being well aware of that. I posted representative photos of South Asian athletes during the Rio 2016 Olympics Parade and the Saudi Arabian athletes. I posted large group photos of Saudi Arabians as well. None looked/look like your average South Asian. Lighter skin color and much different facial features (West Asian).
Our geography, history and genetics (we are more closely related to neighboring Southern Europeans than you South Asians) which DNA also confirms.
The 2 athletes in the furthest row (the ones in the middle) are Afro-Arabs yet they appear lighter.
This is what racist Europeans had to say when they described he races of the world.
Physical appearance
The Arabid race was distinguished from the West-Mediterranean race by some minor characteristic facial traits. These include almond-shaped eyes, very dark hair color, the Semitic smile (conditioned by unusually deep
Fossa canina), untanned skin color tending to a pale olive, and often but not always a narrow or a broad
aquiline nose.
This physical type had in earlier times a broader-formed Syrid subtype, which was found among the farmers of the
Fertile Crescent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabid_race
Your map is nonsense as I already proved. People of Niger, Chad, Mali etc. have the same skin tone as Arabia, 1/3 of Iran and all of Iraq. Makes perfect sense in a parallel universe I guess. Please don't make me laugh.
Hijazi Arabs are more or less genetically identical to neighboring Levantines. Take a look at any DNA test.
Are you now going to use Black and White photos?
House of Saud family members are not Black. Their skin tone is that of your average Middle Eastern person. You can have pale members (as Arabs) such as King Abdullah and you can have more olive skin ones such as King Salman. None of them resemble any Africans let alone South Asians.
Try harder.
As for Hijazis, native Hijazi Arabs look like members of the Hashemite dynasty:
I also suggest you to take a look at how Prophet Muhammad (saws) and the majority of the Sahaba were described by contemporary sources. Ansar too.
Anyway if genetics, history, ground realities, proving 76 year old nonsense maps (how was that nonsense data collected, who created it etc. ?) wrong for everyone to see, posting photos of ordinary Saudi Arabians (women as men, athletes competing during the Olympics this year) etc. is not enough, I guess nobody will ever be.
Yes, Afro-Arabs are Arabs and Saudi Arabians but they make up around 5% of all Arabs worldwide (if not much less) and in the case of KSA 10% of the population. They are not native people. Using them as the dominating sample makes as much sense as those maps that were posted.
People in KSA/Arabia/Arab World who are not affiliated with an Arab clan/tribe are more often than not, not of Arab origin either but a diverse origin.
As for your last photo, those are not Saudi Arabians but foreign workers who are protesting. I googled your photo.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...in-bid-to-boost-job-prospects-for-locals.html
Try harder next time.
@Sargon of Akkad
Lets get back to the topic bro....ignore the people disputing this skin colour/looks thing.
Arabs would for most part stick out in India, Pakistan etc....case closed.
I find it funny that a very racist demeaning guy (who has posted all kinds of racist garbage against Indians) is arguing with you earlier about all kinds of things....best to ignore him bro.
Exactly which is the point here. I will do so however I cannot stop myself from countering obvious nonsense maps or false accusations about my people from invidiuals who have no knowledge about the topics that they are discussing. They have likely never encountered an single native Saudi Arabian or Arab in person (those people living in South Asia). Meanwhile we, the GCC, host the largest South Asian diaspora in the world. I have been surrounded by South Asians my entire life. I know how the average person from Kerala, Bangladesh, Punjab, Pashtun, Baloch, Nepalese etc. looks like. Just as I know how the average West African, Horner, South East Asian person looks like. Simply because I see them everywhere. We all do. There are millions of them here in the GCC.
They don't understand that skin color is secondary here. I simply said that Arabs will stand out in South India. As will most Arabs in South Asia and vice versa. I also recall writing that the average Arab is lighter than the average South Asian although both populations are comparable and that Arabs will have an easier time blending in than say Westerners or say East Asians but that we will still be seen as separate people.
Anyway if that Bangladeshi is trying to convince me of the opposite being the case based on some nonsense maps that I have disproven in matter of seconds, then so be it. Also I have no idea where he got his "light-skinned" Arabs nonsense from. As I already wrote we are people (natives) of Western Asia and North Africa. Our skin tones vary but the most widespread is a olive skin tone. We are proud of that and anyone who knows anything about Arabic poetry will know that we even have poems about the beauty of the olive skin. Also I am not sure why he seems to be hateful/ashamed of darker skinned people or features. Why is it that I see South Asians often discussing skin color but not Arabs unless I am dragged into discussions here? Be confident in your own skin. And yes, I will counter clowns/trolls/ignorant people who try to make the 10% Afro-Arab community in KSA representative of Saudi Arabians or the 5% of Afro-Arabs representative of all 450 million Arabs worldwide. It would be no different if I claimed that all South Asians are 100% Dravidians.
As far as goes for Black people, I find Semitic-Speaking peoples of Ethiopia such as Habesha (half Middle Eastern and half Sub-Saharan people) as some of the most beautiful women. More often than not much better looking than people of the ME, South Asia etc. Likewise mixed women from Cuba and other parts of Latin America. As I wrote I have olive skin myself and I look Middle Eastern. Nor do I find pale, blond people beautiful or desirable rather the opposite. Maybe those people do hence such type of discussions, I do not know. But anyway if I can stop reading posts of ignorant trolls I will tell them that Arabs indeed look like the average person from Senegal, Ivory Coast, Togo, Darfur. Back to topic.