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Date of upload: Apr 23, 2023 ^^
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I'm half Egyptian, and have lived in the US for all of my life. I genuinely love my heritage, and its history. Ancient Egyptian history is incredibly complex and interesting with multiple different groups of individuals and ethnicities that existed and mingled, and it is known that Cleopatra was half Macedonian/Greek because she was the daughter of Ptolemy XII Auletes. However, I can not say that I particularly like my history being rewritten by someone who has absolutely no association with anything to do with Egypt as a whole. Please do not re-write the history of others to better suit your narrative. They could have easily found an Egyptian actor, and the "Diversity" that they claim they want in movies and shows would be satisfied. However it isn't about inclusivity, or diversity anymore, this is quite literally stealing the heritage of others, and claiming it as your own falsely. This is THE definition of cultural appropriation, just rewriting the ANCIENT WRITTEN history of people literally 6000 miles across the world with absolutely no association with you. And when the show is successful, despite the fact that it is piggybacking off of a completely false narrative, Egypt gets nothing out of it. No one single Egyptian individual is able to tell the story of their own people. And when an Egyptian actor gets picked for a role of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh in "Night at the Museum" people literally bashed the creators for "whitewashing" when the actor (Rami Malek) himself the son of two Egyptian immigrants.
Edit: Will Smith, please keep your wife's name out of my fucking history. Thank you.
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As an egyptian I just want to say a few things. 1. A documentary is meant to be historically accurate and Cleopatra was macedonian greek...its not complicated. 2. African americans have been attacking modern day egyptians for years calling us invaders and colonizers which is incredibly racist and offensive. 3. Egypt does not adhere to americans standarda on race. In america you have 2 races. White and non white, which is absolutely ridiculous and not how most people in the world identify. Egypt is made up of many colors and we are all egyptians in this beautiful melting pot but genetic studies have been done and have shown that most modern day egyptians carry gene e-m78 which is native to north east africa. Also no offense but most americans are not historically aware and have no idea what egyptian history is even about. Its not that egyptians hate that she is black..its that they hate the lies and the inaccuracy and also did make a big fuss about the Gods of egypt movie that was all white actors as well as when Elizabeth taylor played her. Egypt is for egyptians alone.
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@Seeker7172
1 year ago
I wonder if in a thousand years, they'll say Elon Musk was black because he's South African.
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