?Why do North African Arabists feel that they do not fully belong to the Arab race
Dr. Abdel Salam Ben Mays says in his book “Manifestations of Rational Thought in Ancient Maghreb Culture”: “Despite the racial mixing that North Africa witnessed (with the Greeks, Phoenicians, Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, and finally the Arabs), the original population element still retained its most important cultural characteristics,” says Charles. Andre Julien on this matter: The Amazighs, although they welcomed different civilizations, have preserved their original identity. For the Amazigh, the successive civilizations coming from outside North Africa were clothes that they added to each other, and their body remained within it, and it did not change.”
Many North African residents believe that they are not Arabs. The Amazigh, despite their interaction and contact with Arabs, does not mean their integration and assimilation into Arab societies. They also emphasize that the way of thinking of the Amazigh-North African person is very different from the way of thinking of the Arab person, and they confirm that the majority of the population of North Africa She is Amazigh and a small minority of Arabs does not exceed 10%, and it is natural for the arriving Arabs to integrate into the culture of the indigenous people.
They also believe that they have their own culture in terms of customs, traditions, language, music and architecture, which is completely different from the culture of the Arabs.
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