Arab Americans

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Arab Americans (Arabic: عَرَبٌ أَمْرِيكِا, romanized: ʻArab Amrīkā or Arabic: العرب الأمريكيون, romanized: al-ʻArab al-Amrīkīyūn) are Americans who trace ancestry to any of the various waves of immigrants from the Arabic-speaking countries. In the United States census, Arabs are racially classified as White Americans which is defined as "A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa". Data from the 2020 U.S. census regarding Arab Americans is categorized under the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) group, which included 3.522 million people identified as MENA alone or in any combination with another group. Within this population, over 2.5 million people reported MENA descent alone. This classification, included for the first time in the 2020 census, includes both Arabic-speaking groups, for instance Lebanese Americans, or Egyptian Americans and non-Arabic speaking such as Iranian Americans and Israeli Americans. The Lebanese Americans...

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