Yes, but the current usage of the word Arab isn't usually about race. It's about culture.
We have many Qataris who's origin in from Iran, so they're mostly Persian, but have lived here for generation, they're Qataris, speak Arabic, and in the statistics, they are counted as Arabs.
The current meaning of "Arab" is somebody from a country that's a member of the Arab League.
The classifications of people used in the Arabic newspapers here are: Citizen, GCC National, Arab National, Asian, African, Foreigner.
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Yes, but the current usage of the word Arab isn't usually about race. It's about culture.
We have many Qataris who's origin in from Iran, so they're mostly Persian, but have lived here for generation, they're Qataris, speak Arabic, and in the statistics, they are counted as Arabs.
The current meaning of "Arab" is somebody from a country that's a member of the Arab League.
The classifications of people used in the Arabic newspapers here are: Citizen, GCC National, Arab National, Asian, African, Foreigner.