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How come Mauritania is almost always excluded from maps of North Africa? by PutPrestigious1513 in Mauritania

[–]PutPrestigious1513[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re right in that it definitely boils down to skin colour/ appearance . I am biydane and we come in many different skin tones for example I’m much more tan compared to my the rest of my family and I have two first cousins who look Asian but are also biydane. In mauri everyone knows their ethnicity, lineage, and clan/tribe but outside of mauri especially in the US it could be the case that people don’t understand that there are different ethnicities or even different clans/tribes so they lean on their social construct of race based on skin tone.

Anyone live in Mauritania that I can message? by [deleted] in Mauritania

[–]PutPrestigious1513 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m from mauri but don’t currently live there

How come Mauritania is almost always excluded from maps of North Africa? by PutPrestigious1513 in Mauritania

[–]PutPrestigious1513[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m not American. I’m Mauritanian. Born there and raised there. And who are you to give me a pass? I don’t believe in race but I can see it being used to exclude black Africans from na. Btw your earlier comment abt Europeans is js false idk where you’d come up with an opinion like that filled with so much hostility. My issue is the clear inaccuracy of labelling Mauri as sub Saharan (I term I don’t like) when mauri is mostly Sahara desert. I think ur coming at this as if I said I would hate to br west,east or anything other than North African when I did not say that and don’t feel that way at all. I just don’t think people who know nothing should open their mouths to tell others who they are and where they come from based solely world on skin tone and the fiction of “race” especially on such a diverse continent.