Question about ppl in the middle east...NEED HELP!!?

Question

I am looking at the different groups of people in different countries in the middle east. I have come across egytian (from egypt), africans (from africa), pakistanis ( from pakistan?) ect...but ive come across Arabs, kurds, turks and jews.... what makes and Arab ...arab? Jews...jew? as you can tell i don't know much about these different groups of people hence me not know how to even ask this question!

are they ethnic groups?

Answer 1

What makes an arab:

  

  * Genealogical: someone who can trace his or her ancestry to the tribes of Arabia - the original inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula - and the Syrian Desert. This definition covers fewer self-identified Arabs than not, and was the definition used in medieval times, for example by Ibn Khaldun.

    * Linguistic: someone whose first language, and by extension cultural expression, is Arabic, including any of its varieties. This definition covers more than 250 million people. Certain groups that fulfill this criterion reject this definition on the basis of genealogy, such an example may be seen in the identity of many Egyptians.[15][16]

    * Political: in the modern nationalist era, any person who is a citizen of a country where Arabic is either the national language or one of the official languages, and/or a citizen of a country which may simply be a member of the Arab League (thereby having Arabic as an official government language, even if not used by the majority of the population). This definition would cover over 300 million people. It may be the most contested definition as it is the most simplistic one. It would exclude the entire Arab diaspora, but include not only those genealogically Arabs (Gulf Arabs and others, such as Bedouins, where they may exist) and those Arabized-Arab-identified, but would also include Arabized non-Arab-identified groups (including many Lebanese and many Egyptians, both Christians and Muslims) and even non-Arabized ethnic minorities which have remained non-Arabic-speaking (such as the Berbers in Morocco, Kurds in Iraq, or the Somali majority of Arab League member Somalia).

A jew is a race and a religion. To have both makes a real jew. Of course you are considered a jew if you convert but they don't seek converts in this religion because they want to keep the race pure.

Answer 2

Yes. They can also be very racist