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The US Census Bureau calculates the number of Arab Americans based on the number of people who claimed at least one Arab ancestry as one of their two ancestries. The Arab American Institute surveys the number of people of Arab descent in the US, regardless of the number of people who claimed Arab descent in the census.
The Mediterranean race (also Mediterranid race) is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on the now-disproven theory of biological race. [1] [2] [3] According to writers of the late 19th to mid-20th centuries it was a sub-race of the Caucasian race. [4]
A 2015 study from Rutgers University found significant inequalities in household income, citizenship rates, and English-speaking rates between New Jersey's White population and Arab population, concluding that America's White and Arab populations might be different enough both culturally and economically to justify a separate category. [49]
The United States has a racially and ethnically diverse population. [1] At the federal level, race and ethnicity have been categorized separately. The most recent United States census recognized five racial categories (White, Black, Native American/Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander), as well as people who belong to two or more of the racial categories.
The Mediterranean diet is a well-rounded way to eat nourishing foods, and there’s an abundance of research that shows the health-promoting impact of following this type of lifestyle.
Justin Amash, US Representative (R-Michigan) (2011–2021), Palestinian and Syrian descent; Victor G. Atiyeh, Governor of Oregon (R) (1979–1987) (Syrian) John Baldacci, Governor of Maine (D) (2003–2011) (Lebanese mother) Rosemary Barkett, US federal judge and the first woman Supreme Court Justice and Chief Justice for the state of Florida ...
Moroccan presence in the United States was rare until the mid-twentieth century. The first North African who came to the current United States was probably Estebanico Al Azemmouri (also called Estevanico), a Muslim Moroccan of Gnawa descent, [2] who participated in Pánfilo de Narváez's ill-fated expedition to colonize Florida and the Gulf Coast in 1527.
Mexico also has a high crime rate. Homicide rates are nearly four times as those in the United States, according to Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography .