User talk:Domsta333
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[edit] Ishango Has A Question
When did the term Afro -Trinidadian begin to be used in Trinidad and Tobago?--Ishango 00:36, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Hi Domsta, re-Nefertiti
Hi, thanks for posting on my talk page. Yes, I am a descendant of Nefertiti because I am (and both of my parents are) Egyptian. She was Egyptian, not Nubian. But to cut through the chase (given what I saw on your homepage), I don't really do the Afrocentrist debate thing. Nefertiti could have been Black or White, I don't give a damn. Modern Egyptians tend to be very blase about race issues.
I have no idea what the genetic makeup of Egypt is, but it sure as hell has the living daylights mixed out of it given just about every other country has occupied us :)
Hope to hear your views on this soon, since your initial post on my talk page was confusing (I didn't know what you meant, but I just got the ultra-sensitive Afrocentrist vibe).
Thanks again mate. --Karkaron 20:57, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Domsta, what is it you want to find out about the clan system? I am not very familiar with it, but I have been exposed to some aspects of the Saudi clan system. If you are interested, the most organized and intact clan system in the region is probably the Somali one. You can research that a bit more. As far as Egypt is concerned, other than Bedwin tribes (who form 2-3% of the population), there are no tribes. Egyptians identify with patriarchial extended families, and then with the village of origin/province of origin. Things have changed though, and most second or third generation large city dwellers have no real identification with anything but the immediate family. --Karkaron 18:07, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Userbox misalign
I think you accidently misalign your userbox. Please look at this code |{{User:OhanaUnited/Userboxes/Protect_Environment}} You should remove the "|" line OhanaUnited 15:48, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Not a problem. Look carefully who created the userbox and who asked you to fix it. OMG, it's the same person (aka me lol). Anyways, thanks for supporting the environment. OhanaUnited 03:46, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Clans
Hello.
I'm afraid I don't have much knowledge of Arab clans. Palestinian clans are defined mostly by the village or town of ancestral residence. For example, the "Tamimi" clan are a Hebron clan. The Khalidi, Husseini, and Nashashibi clans are Jerusalem clans, etc. So a clan is defined by members of a family with ancestral origins in a particular place, and not with genetic relationships to other possible clans in the region. As such, I'm not aware of any interrelated system of clans between Palestinians and Arabs. I suspect that most countries of the Levant (and perhaps the Arabian peninsula and nothern Africa) go by a similar system as Palestine (i.e. hometown of origin), but I haven't been to these countries and don't know for sure.
I hope this helps answer your question. I understood your query to be about possible extended clans across countries, i.e. would a particular clan in Palestine be a local part of an extended clan in other parts of the region? The answer is no, for the reasons defined above. Let me know if I can be of further help, to the extent of my general knowledge. Ramallite (talk) 22:57, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Ladino.
I have studied spanish for about seven years, and i just sort of decided ot learn ladino. mostly, i picked up vocab by listening to music, as well as the ladinokomunita website, but i had a ladino-spanish dictionary to help. Kızılderili 07:36, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
