Egyptian society, while appearing on the surface to be a homogenous “race” given their continuity of artistic and writing style, was in actuality internally diverse and integrated with the nations around them. Egyptians based their Egyptianness on several categories. In order to be Egyptian, one had to live in Egypt (along the Nile Valley from the Mediterranean Sea to the Nile’s first cataract), and behave as an Egyptian complete with an Egyptian name, dress, and burial customs. This can be demonstrated particularly by Egyptians who left Egypt and then returned, and also by foreigners who became fully Egyptian. Accounts of Egyptians who left Egypt for a time are particularly preserved in stories, which highlight not only the individual’s wishes to return to Egypt for a proper burial, but also their re-adoption of Egyptian ways upon their return; only then are they seen as true Egyptians again. Egyptians allowed foreigners to become Egyptian as well, provided that the foreigners assimilated into Egyptian culture, adopting its language, dress, and customs. In this way, such potentially liminal individuals renounced the role as symbolic enemies of Egypt and aligned themselves with the ideology of Egypt as the maintainer of order in the universe. While the Egyptians did recognize an Egyptian “race” as separate from the Asiatic, Libyan, or Nubian “races,” they also allowed their own category to include those who chose to renounce their origins and align themselves with Egypt, making the Egyptian term “race” more synonymous with the modern term “ethnicity,” as something that could change. In this way, Egyptians defined themselves as a people who lived in Egypt and behaved as Egyptians, whether they were born in Egypt or not.
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The Greeks also saw themselves as a separate and distinguished "race" from fellow Europeans like Celts, Scythians (Russians), and even early Italians and Anatolians whom they were closely related to.
Of course "race" in this instance like in the quote your dumbass cited without its source only means the original sense of the word meaning a group of people of common ethnicity and NOT modern racial groupings based on physical appearance.
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^ the above picture is false replica of the original picture, not only where both the Libyans, Asiatics, and Egyptians darkers, the "Nubian" was lighter as well.
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Doc - Lion cub is not to blame, that White bullshit is all over the place. Combine that with Whites declaring EVERY BLACK a Nubian, you can see why there is so much misinformation.
I am thinking of starting a collaborative thread on identifying the various peoples that the Egyptians came into contact with - are you interested?
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quote:Originally posted by Mike111: Doc - Lion cub is not to blame, that White bullshit is all over the place. Combine that with Whites declaring EVERY BLACK a Nubian, you can see why there is so much misinformation.
I am thinking of starting a collaborative thread on identifying the various peoples that the Egyptians came into contact with - are you interested?
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