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The class, cultural, ethnic, governmental, linguistic and religious make-up of the region is highly variable. Debates on which countries should be included in the Middle East are wide-ranging. [ 2 ] The Greater Middle East and North Africa region can include the Caucasus , Cyprus , Afghanistan , and several sub-Saharan African states due to ...
Ethnolinguistic distribution in Central and Southwest Asia of the Altaic, Caucasian, Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) and Indo-European families.. Ethnic groups in the Middle East are ethnolinguistic groupings in the "transcontinental" region that is commonly a geopolitical term designating the intercontinental region comprising West Asia (including Cyprus) without the South Caucasus, [1] and also ...
The class, cultural, ethnic, governmental, linguistic and religious make-up of the region is highly variable. Debates on which countries should be included in the Middle East are wide-ranging. [ 52 ] The Greater Middle East and North Africa region can include the Caucasus , Cyprus , Afghanistan , and several sub-Saharan African states due to ...
Almost 50,000 MENA write-ins, or 1.6%, did so under the Black race category. Among MENA subgroups, people of Lebanese and Syrian backgrounds had the highest percentages of people identifying their race as white, and people who identified as North African, Berber and Moroccan had the highest rates of marking their race as Black.
The Biden administration’s proposal to add a “Middle Eastern or North African” identifier, or MENA, to official documents like the census is the latest progress in a decadeslong fight to ...
The addition of this category to the OMB’s standards for race and ethnicity for the first time in U.S. history means that an estimated 8 million Americans who trace their origins to the Middle ...
The question measuring a respondent’s race or ethnicity will now include seven broad categories: White, Hispanic or Latino, Black or African American, Asian, American Indian or Alaska Native ...
Following consultations with MENA organizations, the US Census Bureau announced in 2014 that it would establish a new MENA ethnic category for populations from the Middle East, North Africa, and the Arab world, separate from the "white" classification that these populations had previously sought in 1909. The expert groups felt that the earlier ...