We're Not White | Amer Zahr | TEDxDetroit

Arab Americans need a box, like everyone else, so we can be counted and so we can count! Amer is a Palestinian-American comedian, musician, & writer. As the child of Palestinian refugees, his special brand of comedy is fresh, enlightening, and, of course, hilarious.
He has performed to live audiences throughout America, Canada, and the Arab World, making people laugh in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Boston, Toronto, Amman, Muscat, Beirut, Nazareth, Haifa, Yafa, Bethlehem, Ramallah, and Jerusalem. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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  • @sambulls
    @sambulls5 жыл бұрын

    bruh what a dead crowd that guy was killing it

  • @tigerheaddude

    @tigerheaddude

    5 жыл бұрын

    sambulls not really, it wasn't that funny

  • @NowraxLive

    @NowraxLive

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@tigerheaddude its not suppose to be a stand up comedy show anyway .

  • @tigerheaddude

    @tigerheaddude

    5 жыл бұрын

    NOWRAX I think it was obvious that he was going for a stand-up comedy routine

  • @Mz_95

    @Mz_95

    5 жыл бұрын

    Cuz he said Palestine that’s why

  • @LBMuslim94

    @LBMuslim94

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@tigerheaddude yeah but he wasnt forcing it. He was simoky incorporating comedy to what he was truely trying to get across to keep the audience captivated and it definitely worked. Dude was great

  • @wsnkj3383
    @wsnkj33835 жыл бұрын

    I once drew a box and wrote Arab next to it and checked the box🤣

  • @valuecalc

    @valuecalc

    5 жыл бұрын

    Wsnk J, good move. Arabs are not white.

  • @averagebodybuilder

    @averagebodybuilder

    5 жыл бұрын

    You shouldn't have to arabs are originally from Asia. Lebanon is in the continent of ASIA. So is the country of Qatar, on the continent of ASIA.

  • @user-en5uq6jy4o

    @user-en5uq6jy4o

    5 жыл бұрын

    There you go my friend

  • @daveerwin6981

    @daveerwin6981

    5 жыл бұрын

    this guy is too good for this crowd

  • @alharbimohammed

    @alharbimohammed

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@averagebodybuilder what are you talking about ...what about Egypt, morocco, Algeria, lebia, Sudan.... half of the arab world is in africa too

  • @DetroitLives313
    @DetroitLives3135 жыл бұрын

    He's good, but more importantly........he is right!

  • @untheist5533
    @untheist55335 жыл бұрын

    I’m of African decent & I’m 200% w/you Amer. Start a petition & I’ll definitely sign it.

  • @johnmartin3134

    @johnmartin3134

    5 жыл бұрын

    Most Mediterranean countries, Spain, Italy, Greece... were considered non white, but then they changed it for higher percentages

  • @rykson161

    @rykson161

    3 жыл бұрын

    Arabs are African ! No such place as the Middle East ... there is Eastern Africa !!

  • @abortionismurder4265

    @abortionismurder4265

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@johnmartin3134 lol i believe it

  • @sidimightbe3246

    @sidimightbe3246

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@abortionismurder4265 abortion is murder

  • @ahmedabdullah8909

    @ahmedabdullah8909

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rykson161 Arabs are not African. True that part of Arab countries are located in Africa like Egypt morocco Tunisia Algeria Sudan Mauritania and Libya, but there are more Arab countries in Asia in total of 11 or 12 countries.

  • @Palestineexists
    @Palestineexists5 жыл бұрын

    MENA : Middle East and North Africa

  • @karamlevi

    @karamlevi

    5 жыл бұрын

    Nice 👍🏽

  • @lilahdog568

    @lilahdog568

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Fuckya Lookin at they as white as a Greek so

  • @samyrandome425

    @samyrandome425

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Sirush Levonyan What's a race really ?

  • @kyrah1790

    @kyrah1790

    4 жыл бұрын

    lilahdog 568 lmao arabs are olive most

  • @rodayodryve7998

    @rodayodryve7998

    4 жыл бұрын

    You are White, grow up.

  • @learnmore9472
    @learnmore94725 жыл бұрын

    My name is Jihad and i'm proud, I won't change it.

  • @neoottomanempire3898

    @neoottomanempire3898

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Tony BANDS Holly War

  • @Yoshi-wx8sx

    @Yoshi-wx8sx

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@neoottomanempire3898 look up the arabic definition

  • @Itachi-rl9xg

    @Itachi-rl9xg

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@neoottomanempire3898 . It means struggle in Arabic.

  • @Itachi-rl9xg

    @Itachi-rl9xg

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Tony BANDS ?

  • @weatherkop

    @weatherkop

    5 жыл бұрын

    My name is karo-kari nice to meet you. If you were wondering my name translates to honor killing.

  • @Flashshit84
    @Flashshit845 жыл бұрын

    My parents are from Morocco so I would check the African box and put in Arab down !

  • @Flashshit84

    @Flashshit84

    5 жыл бұрын

    Derek Von Hohenheim why not Maghreb? What you mean ?

  • @Flashshit84

    @Flashshit84

    5 жыл бұрын

    Derek Von Hohenheim lol u talkin to a moroccan guy .. tell me something new 😉

  • @Flashshit84

    @Flashshit84

    5 жыл бұрын

    Derek Von Hohenheim and it’s similiar to Latinos they are carebean and from South America

  • @Flashshit84

    @Flashshit84

    5 жыл бұрын

    Derek Von Hohenheim i was born in Germany so I am German Moroccan ... but I can tell u for sure that many Latinos think I m Cuban or Dominican and start talking in Spanish . And that’s not just me ... many North Africans pass as carebean Latino or Brazilian . The other thing is that maghrebis are at first Amazigh aka Berbers or mixed with Arabs . We are also mixed with south Spanish / Portuguese ( andalasusiens) and sub Saharan Africans

  • @nadelina4154

    @nadelina4154

    5 жыл бұрын

    I check african american because morocco is in africa. So i m african.

  • @mohamedalibraham5144
    @mohamedalibraham51445 жыл бұрын

    Long Live PALESTINE. Much Love from Tunisia North-Africa.

  • @lucius5787

    @lucius5787

    5 жыл бұрын

    Weld bledi

  • @aharonmizrachi440

    @aharonmizrachi440

    5 жыл бұрын

    Long live ISRAEL

  • @argadargad9128

    @argadargad9128

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@lucius5787 LONG LIVE ARAB, AND ARAB PALESTINE,

  • @goodboy-ct9wk

    @goodboy-ct9wk

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@aharonmizrachi440 shame on you. You're a Muslim and that's your support.? Shame on you

  • @GeneralWisefool

    @GeneralWisefool

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@aharonmizrachi440 eedjit

  • @brennanconway3728
    @brennanconway37285 жыл бұрын

    Better idea... Get rid of all the boxes, and add a blank space. Let people define for themselves

  • @itsme-jx9xt

    @itsme-jx9xt

    5 жыл бұрын

    👏👏👏👏👏👏

  • @Browny241422

    @Browny241422

    5 жыл бұрын

    I completely agree with you 🏅 If they continue this race thing..sooner or later they wouldn't have anymore space for people who are becoming more mixed. Some people are very mixed these days. They can tick on all of the boxes to pleased themselves and their relatives hahaha!

  • @AArrad

    @AArrad

    5 жыл бұрын

    BC Do you know how slow the bureaucratic system is? How long it would take to file millions upon millions of forms, and you also have cases where people put in the same word spelled differently, and then those end up classified as 26 races but theyre really one race (written the same). There is no perfect system.

  • @12shamed

    @12shamed

    4 жыл бұрын

    Why even ask about nationality can’t we all just be recognized as humans ?

  • @unknownv8462

    @unknownv8462

    3 жыл бұрын

    No

  • @fahadtube1406
    @fahadtube14065 жыл бұрын

    He is really good and funny. However, the crowd is not that much.

  • @nanjemoyal-kursi3078

    @nanjemoyal-kursi3078

    5 жыл бұрын

    * The crowd is not that much (participating) because they are White and so much truth is beaing spoken from this brother. In other words stepping on white people's toes/striking a nerve/making them feal guilty.

  • @saddiqfogle5793

    @saddiqfogle5793

    5 жыл бұрын

    I do standup, and when you drop truth sometimes the audience nods in agreement instead of laugh.

  • @motherofsolomon6619

    @motherofsolomon6619

    5 жыл бұрын

    The "crowd" doesn't like Truth 😏. Shalom 🕊️

  • @samueld8642

    @samueld8642

    3 жыл бұрын

    this isnt a stand up comedy special?

  • @Rydonittelo

    @Rydonittelo

    Жыл бұрын

    That's because it's a Ted talk, not a comedy club

  • @maccomplex
    @maccomplex5 жыл бұрын

    Sydney, Australia has a politician named Jihad Dib. Didn't stop him from being voted into state parliament!

  • @maccomplex

    @maccomplex

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Shahid Hussain He didn't have to be "Jay"...

  • @maccomplex

    @maccomplex

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Shahid Hussain Look harder mate 11:40

  • @yourbrother2417

    @yourbrother2417

    4 жыл бұрын

    Jihad is Arabic word mean using all your power to say or do something. there is nothing wrong about the name. people used e=mc2 to make nuclear bombs how about that.

  • @krixxset2214

    @krixxset2214

    4 жыл бұрын

    @D Goshay Australia is significantly more White than the USA.. USA was made up of many different European ethnic groups from all over Europe, Australia was made up of the British almost exclusively. So i have no idea what you're trying to say about it being smoother for "jihad" to get elected because the contrast between him and the rest of the population is even more pronounced yet he was elected.. White countries are the most tolerant open nations on earth.. The flood of outsiders into them now have resulted in the racism of others being imposed upon us and used to extract special treatment... In many cases there is irrational hatred towards European people because of our accomplishments and the insecurity that strokes within people of other backgrounds.. All manor of accusations and slander laden with enormous bias, double standard, omission of fact and selective exaggerations about history are used to justify this hate fuelled hostility and the fact we are WILLING to consider the opinions of others is used against us and seen as weakness rather than appreciated .. Soon patience will run out and tolerance will turn to self defence.. Then everyone will remember what happens when we have been pushed too far.

  • @NikoBellaKhouf

    @NikoBellaKhouf

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jennas9033 if they had brain cells they wouldn't have given up their guns

  • @Reem-Amar
    @Reem-Amar3 жыл бұрын

    Palestine 🇵🇸 always and forever ♥

  • @fehmequranwithgrammar
    @fehmequranwithgrammar5 жыл бұрын

    Jesus ate here hahahaha beautiful

  • @Kinghassz

    @Kinghassz

    5 жыл бұрын

    GIT DAH FUQ OUTTA HERE ! He was from the levant, look at the people of the levant, they look like this comedian and not like white western europeans for the most part

  • @AkshayKumar-tm7lb

    @AkshayKumar-tm7lb

    5 жыл бұрын

    @GIT DAH FUQ OUTTA HERE ! if Jesus was white, that is all the Bible would ever talk about.. it would literally be a miracle..

  • @farishope6540

    @farishope6540

    5 жыл бұрын

    @GIT DAH FUQ OUTTA HERE ! This is your sick wish but genealogy says YOU ARE LAIR

  • @ibrasoso8668

    @ibrasoso8668

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Abomi Nable jesus is semetic like arabs

  • @Mouqawem

    @Mouqawem

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AkshayKumar-tm7lb if jesus was white no miracles would occur he'd always be in the shade scared to be sunburned

  • @HassanHassan-el4ky
    @HassanHassan-el4ky5 жыл бұрын

    I can’t understand, why this man is not a famous stand up comedian, he is fabulous, He should be same level as Ressul peter and Traver Noah

  • @abdulhadawi6443
    @abdulhadawi64435 жыл бұрын

    Respect, thank you for speaking loud and clear and how proud you are of our culture!

  • @electronicsjapan6293
    @electronicsjapan62934 жыл бұрын

    “You’re older than your uncle” lol so true

  • @saliker4491
    @saliker44915 жыл бұрын

    I think the box shouldn’t exist. It’s just a way of dividing people!

  • @alialahmad4329

    @alialahmad4329

    5 жыл бұрын

    it's just to know the ethnic diversity in ur country

  • @SecretEyeSpot

    @SecretEyeSpot

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@alialahmad4329 its actually for Equal Employment Opportunity... but clearly i dont know if it works..

  • @tayirnull1567

    @tayirnull1567

    5 жыл бұрын

    Next time someone inquires about your race when filling out a form for employment or whatever you should write, "There is only one human race."

  • @dickidsrip5262

    @dickidsrip5262

    5 жыл бұрын

    Us is built on race so its not gonna change because you want it 2.

  • @TheKayleeanna

    @TheKayleeanna

    5 жыл бұрын

    In the US the boxes are needed due to systemic racism. Sadly, in America, the lighter your skin the more privileges you receive. Since this is the majority of the population, the US has laws to protect persons that are in the minority. Some of those laws mandate diversity and inclusion in different organizations of people. Therefore, it is important to have the "Arabic American" box so that Arab Americans in the US can be represented adequately in the USA.

  • @msrasras
    @msrasras4 жыл бұрын

    Great message, thank you.

  • @jeana2820
    @jeana28205 жыл бұрын

    This perfectly captures how I feel. Yeah, my skin might be white, but until you treat me and my Arab family just as you treat the European side of my family, you cannot lump us into the same category

  • @arturoangel3834

    @arturoangel3834

    5 жыл бұрын

    We can tho

  • @arturoangel3834

    @arturoangel3834

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Jefferson Marques yeah go ahead idc

  • @DOTH3ROAR

    @DOTH3ROAR

    5 жыл бұрын

    Jefferson Marques what?? I don't support mass immigration full stop. Regardless of who's doing it, thousands upon thousands of people have died in wars protecting their countries from people intruding their land and now we are just letting people waltz right in?!? How does that make sense??

  • @sarahda845

    @sarahda845

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Azzury Street but they all get treated as tho they are

  • @sarahda845

    @sarahda845

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Derek Lowe .........this comment really makes no sense..... There are non white countries that are perfectly fine..... Go study. And even the ones that are messed up now, it is not because its people are not white. Your statement is empty. Maybe look at the West's relentless interference in the east, look at Iraq for example when Europe was excreting in the street, they were the height of scientific discovery. Just one example

  • @sarahkilimanjaro1409
    @sarahkilimanjaro14095 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant 🤩 Mashaa’Allah “We are not white” lol

  • @valuecalc

    @valuecalc

    5 жыл бұрын

    Sarah Kilimanjaro , who would think it?

  • @JohnDavid-vh3rn

    @JohnDavid-vh3rn

    4 жыл бұрын

    allah does not exist

  • @kyrah1790

    @kyrah1790

    4 жыл бұрын

    John David not all arabs are muslim call down, arabs that are christian or atheist say mashallah too just like me, i say it but i’m christian

  • @Noorinvests

    @Noorinvests

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@JohnDavid-vh3rn There is no God but Allah

  • @bryanbradley6871

    @bryanbradley6871

    2 жыл бұрын

    Profit Muhammad was white

  • @rebeccavalen7960
    @rebeccavalen79603 жыл бұрын

    Lmfaooo I started dying when I saw the school logo “go arabs,” Jesus omg lolll how did a school even think that was okay in the first place.

  • @riadarabieter5418
    @riadarabieter54185 жыл бұрын

    Hilarious but with a serious message.

  • @jermanospetalos3823

    @jermanospetalos3823

    5 жыл бұрын

    I notice a lot of whites are saying to abolish race or consensus boxes. As the world becomes less white, now all of a sudden race doesn’t matter! You see the my are moving the goal posts to suit themselves again.

  • @drdread9896

    @drdread9896

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Jo Jo 😂😂😂

  • @danielsempere9507
    @danielsempere95073 жыл бұрын

    this seems more like stand up comedy than a ted x talk

  • @jakqatif
    @jakqatif4 жыл бұрын

    "when they see this scarf, they think something is about to go down" heheheheheheh, soo true

  • @MOpO87

    @MOpO87

    3 жыл бұрын

    I wear mine to work as a scarf when cold. I don’t care. It’s a beautiful scarf!

  • @ramimusavtucjust
    @ramimusavtucjust5 жыл бұрын

    Love it!

  • @abdulrahmanabuarqoub4163
    @abdulrahmanabuarqoub41634 жыл бұрын

    Me in America: my name is Abdulrahman People: what?!? Me: Abdulrahman People: Abaramen? Me: Good enough.

  • @TV-bu8qv

    @TV-bu8qv

    4 жыл бұрын

    It’s hard I know, I am abdelrahman too

  • @sidimightbe3246

    @sidimightbe3246

    2 жыл бұрын

    Theres Abdulrahmans as a traditional name in Serbia lol

  • @megoyamle7
    @megoyamle75 жыл бұрын

    Does white means better or what? as a north african arab African box check.

  • @mahirop5743

    @mahirop5743

    5 жыл бұрын

    Bruh I thought calling myself Afro-Arabian was my own thing. Guess I'm not alone lol

  • @thequestioner9634

    @thequestioner9634

    5 жыл бұрын

    Stanley Childs 😂 Wth. Who doesn’t have melanin? And nobody is beneath anybody. We are all part of the human race. Smh.

  • @ThoseWhoHeedTheCall

    @ThoseWhoHeedTheCall

    5 жыл бұрын

    what!! Al Stay proud ✊

  • @SuperVendetta9

    @SuperVendetta9

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@thequestioner9634 the laws that are still on the books state otherwise.

  • @calkid1989

    @calkid1989

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ask Ra/Sol/Apollo about that

  • @hananalrifai
    @hananalrifai5 жыл бұрын

    So proud of you 👏🏻❤️❤️

  • @wasanmahmood5906
    @wasanmahmood59065 жыл бұрын

    This is a great routine man . God bless you

  • @jeronwhite3113
    @jeronwhite31135 жыл бұрын

    HE LOOKS LIKE THE THE CHARACTER WHO PLAYS IN DESPICABLE ME

  • @Androvich91

    @Androvich91

    5 жыл бұрын

    bruh

  • @ObamaSexGaming2007

    @ObamaSexGaming2007

    4 жыл бұрын

    Now that you mention it... He does look like Gru

  • @dadadoooo1412

    @dadadoooo1412

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@alhumdulilah4ever not Disney :/ it's universal

  • @thehalalreviewer

    @thehalalreviewer

    4 жыл бұрын

    He technically doesn’t “play” in it, because he is a cartoon character not an actor.

  • @tonynasaofficial

    @tonynasaofficial

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@alhumdulilah4ever you mean Jewish?

  • @motomweusi836
    @motomweusi8365 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting and edifying thank you.

  • @thequestioner9634
    @thequestioner96345 жыл бұрын

    I’m a Yemeni and I have a light medium skin tone. I once filled out an application at a doctors office and I checked ‘Other’. The receptionist takes the form from me, looks at me, and checks White. I told her “I’m not White, I’m Arab”. She laughed and said “Same thing. Arabs are the seen as White.” I don’t have a problem with white people but that seriously annoyed me.

  • @TheGreatOne93

    @TheGreatOne93

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@AthenaMinerva1 Fact. They're worried about their declining numbers so they're trying to claim different cultures to boost their numbers. Even though theyve been discriminating against them for decades now

  • @rnata86

    @rnata86

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Deutschland Über Alles Arabs are NOT white. Some may look White but there is nothing about their culture that is WHITE. White refers to European culture which is something that Arabs completely lack.

  • @ibrasoso8668

    @ibrasoso8668

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Deutschland Über Alles we are semetic we have are own skin Light skin just like greeks south italy we are not white like germans or north europe

  • @ibrasoso8668

    @ibrasoso8668

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Deutschland Über Alles real arab or semetic skin are light skin not far white and not far brown like Jesus Christ

  • @ibrasoso8668

    @ibrasoso8668

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Deutschland Über Alles blacks are not real arabs bro

  • @mgonzo3881
    @mgonzo38813 жыл бұрын

    I don’t know, I’ve been to Jordan and they are pale white. I mean blonde hair and blue eyes, even gingers. Iraqis are also “white”, as well as Syrians.

  • @aminseif9822

    @aminseif9822

    2 жыл бұрын

    small pencentage

  • @gracem4516
    @gracem45165 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for that Amer, you were great. It was very informative. I get that question too... where you from from😂 I am Canadian, living in UAE, and I am from from East Africa😁

  • @gracem4516

    @gracem4516

    5 жыл бұрын

    On fcbk I am from Detroit 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @angelicam5601
    @angelicam56014 жыл бұрын

    Amazing!!! Yessss!!! Well said

  • @NawalH.
    @NawalH.5 жыл бұрын

    يعطيك العافية 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @lucius5787
    @lucius57875 жыл бұрын

    The concept of human race has no scientific backup. We should use ethnicity.

  • @tayirnull1567

    @tayirnull1567

    5 жыл бұрын

    Americans use skin color to define race, and Europeans emphasis on ethnicity more than one's skin color. That's the difference.

  • @rai2423

    @rai2423

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@tayirnull1567 But skin colour can vary within ethnicities. Skin colour caries even among families where everyone is of the same ethnic background soooo how does that makes sense?

  • @deniserutkowski9028

    @deniserutkowski9028

    5 жыл бұрын

    Scientifically there is only one race. The human race.

  • @MJ-hg1mk

    @MJ-hg1mk

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@deniserutkowski9028 Bingo!

  • @ogasontop

    @ogasontop

    5 жыл бұрын

    then call all bears by the same name, not grizzly or panda.

  • @morningmidnight9398
    @morningmidnight93985 жыл бұрын

    The reason is that a long time ago by law only a person considered legally white was allowed certain privileges like openening a shop or specific investments so an Arab went to court and argued for him to be registered as white and he won the case and gained full rights as a result of that and since then Arabs are conveniently considered white in this weird dynamic that the USA has. After him a Japanese man tried to argue the same case that japanese are white but failed to do so.

  • @marcfavero4632

    @marcfavero4632

    5 жыл бұрын

    and now they do not want to be white ???

  • @morningmidnight9398

    @morningmidnight9398

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@marcfavero4632 No it isn't they do or don't. One person got a ruling and as a result everybody was labeled as such. The term white is very ambiguous and very weird as an umbrella phrase so what if someone was from an Arab country but is of Indian or Nigerian decent is he then white? I think all this sensus thing needs to be evaluated but hyphenation has become an American traight, that and the excessive use of flags.

  • @LA-qt3tr

    @LA-qt3tr

    5 жыл бұрын

    Because the Arab group who fought it that time were very white blonde so they give them the white box not to the Japanese one. There are some Arabic countries are seriously white and blonde!

  • @Androvich91

    @Androvich91

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@LA-qt3tr such as?

  • @bellatrix3811

    @bellatrix3811

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Androvich91 yemen pure yemeni are white yiu can see them in my channel they are been killed by saudi arabia these days old pure arab are coscasian

  • @suavetemper1683
    @suavetemper16835 жыл бұрын

    My brother dropped some jewels 💯

  • @abdobanjabi5410
    @abdobanjabi54105 жыл бұрын

    Man this guy put a smile on my face the entire video

  • @prodigalsun1069
    @prodigalsun10695 жыл бұрын

    My first time seeing him. As much as he is funny, he is right. He was really entertaining. Thanks for posting this.

  • @valuecalc

    @valuecalc

    3 жыл бұрын

    And as he said, "Arabs aren't white."

  • @fatinajaber591
    @fatinajaber5915 жыл бұрын

    Amazing.

  • @NikoBellaKhouf

    @NikoBellaKhouf

    3 жыл бұрын

    Jaber 👀

  • @AGTJAZZ
    @AGTJAZZ5 жыл бұрын

    I learned something good today thanks Amer

  • @michaelo.1699
    @michaelo.16994 жыл бұрын

    Your akhadouha mafrousheh is a piece of art. Genious. I loved it.

  • @user-ty6kr1zf6n
    @user-ty6kr1zf6n5 жыл бұрын

    This guy is so funny I 😆😆😆😆😆 from my heart

  • @Amrknegypt
    @Amrknegypt5 жыл бұрын

    Im Egyptian n my DNA shows 90 percent African.

  • @jimoneprism

    @jimoneprism

    5 жыл бұрын

    Egypt is in Africa tho

  • @bebemochi

    @bebemochi

    5 жыл бұрын

    Jesus saw that, it’s not inconceivable that medy has African DNA but as most people consider Egyptians to be Arabs it’s just an interesting example of how humans don’t fit in little boxes.

  • @GORO911

    @GORO911

    5 жыл бұрын

    you probably are Nubian, not real Egyptian then

  • @albreiki5725

    @albreiki5725

    5 жыл бұрын

    Medy هالفحص كله كذب بكذب....لاتصدقهم

  • @GORO911

    @GORO911

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@albreiki5725 الفحص سليم أفريقى لا تعنى أسود المصريون جيناتهم هى مزيج من العرق الشمال أفريقى (كالبربر و الأمازيغ) مع هجرات قادمة من الشام و الأناضول منذ ما يقرب من 10,000 عام أو أقدم

  • @nabilaaliskandarani6609
    @nabilaaliskandarani6609 Жыл бұрын

    Love him...Hilarious and amazing ❤❤❤

  • @rebeccavalen7960
    @rebeccavalen79603 жыл бұрын

    Lmaooo I love this dude already. He is so entertaining

  • @novalovely6848
    @novalovely68485 жыл бұрын

    This guy is great

  • @goodmediaishere55
    @goodmediaishere555 жыл бұрын

    @TEDx Talks Islaam and As Salaamu Alaikum. When people fail to realize that "white" is a legal status and not a skin complexion. Salaam and Thanks!

  • @paktiger79a62

    @paktiger79a62

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ppl need to learn from MOORS like you.

  • @causeeffect7624

    @causeeffect7624

    5 жыл бұрын

    I wish folks would speak to this. what is white? are you Palestinian if born in America? Native American or American?

  • @NikoBellaKhouf

    @NikoBellaKhouf

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@causeeffect7624 I was born in America but I'm definitely Palestinian. Where you were born doesn't change your DNA

  • @causeeffect7624

    @causeeffect7624

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@NikoBellaKhouf your DNA reads Palestinian? It is a 'race' or ppl of a place? Tell me more. I'm of African decent no matter where my bodies are?

  • @NikoBellaKhouf

    @NikoBellaKhouf

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@causeeffect7624 yes it does. It's an ethnicity and people of a place

  • @sarahda845
    @sarahda8455 жыл бұрын

    This guy is hilarious, love him

  • @JesusISKingNoMatterWhat
    @JesusISKingNoMatterWhat5 жыл бұрын

    Very intelligent man, loved this Ted talk👌

  • @tlazur
    @tlazur5 жыл бұрын

    rolls eyes as he is told, "white people don't be scared"

  • @Traewing
    @Traewing5 жыл бұрын

    The ancient name Palestine and Syria is the land of Canaan in the bible.

  • @MrJoeylj

    @MrJoeylj

    5 жыл бұрын

    You did your homework. Love it

  • @dorbitan2935

    @dorbitan2935

    5 жыл бұрын

    After Cnaan - Israel, and Judea... A Roman emperor changed it to Palestine (after the greekl philistins) to revenge the Jews that fought him in the Jewish-Roman wars

  • @SubscribersWithoutVideos-id2vu

    @SubscribersWithoutVideos-id2vu

    5 жыл бұрын

    You forgot Lebanon honey

  • @Traewing

    @Traewing

    5 жыл бұрын

    1000 Subscribers Without Videos nobody forgot Lebanon. I didn't draw the line. It's apart of Syria. At the end of the day it's all Israel now.

  • @Traewing

    @Traewing

    5 жыл бұрын

    Resistance 313 And Lebenon one of the oldest cities....

  • @TheGreatOne93
    @TheGreatOne934 жыл бұрын

    The bargaining and auction joke was funny lol

  • @nasradinali
    @nasradinali5 жыл бұрын

    Phew I loved the ending so much!! If ur name is jihad, get Jay lol

  • @tukkinum
    @tukkinum5 жыл бұрын

    All the sudden being reccomend lol

  • @unkouwnfigure2746
    @unkouwnfigure27465 жыл бұрын

    Not true that arabs can’t have English names, i am a Lebanese christian and my name is johnny my friend’s name is michael and most of my friends have english or french names.

  • @Lolee56

    @Lolee56

    5 жыл бұрын

    unkouwn figure Lebanese Muslim and half my family has French rooted names 🤷🏼‍♀️

  • @Lolee56

    @Lolee56

    5 жыл бұрын

    Resistance 313 we were concurred by the French in Lebanon and Syria. Also u could name ur kid any name it doesn’t matter... we have many Arabic names as well... and English names since were Lebanese AMERICAN. I’m not married to an Arab either... the world is becoming globalized and America is a Melting pot. I have kids with Arabic and English-French names. Don’t talk without knowing anything ur embarrassing urself

  • @unkouwnfigure2746

    @unkouwnfigure2746

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Resistance 313 Well it's not really "English" names but rather French, the names George Jessica etc etc are all names of saints for you should respect those names, that are not limited by a certain area.

  • @Lolee56

    @Lolee56

    5 жыл бұрын

    Resistance 313 whatever makes u sleep at night.

  • @NikoBellaKhouf

    @NikoBellaKhouf

    3 жыл бұрын

    You should have Levantine names

  • @hamadajarrar1981
    @hamadajarrar19812 жыл бұрын

    Amazing man

  • @khalilhood6176
    @khalilhood61764 жыл бұрын

    Excellent

  • @nadelina4154
    @nadelina41545 жыл бұрын

    I m moroccan i check african. Because we are proudly african.

  • @dangercat9188

    @dangercat9188

    Жыл бұрын

    Ayyee you guys have some good food lol.

  • @fadiyounis1727
    @fadiyounis17275 жыл бұрын

    Well done amer I love you

  • @abdulrahmanahmed8722
    @abdulrahmanahmed87222 жыл бұрын

    That's awesome 😍

  • @athecheat
    @athecheat4 жыл бұрын

    very funny, great speaker

  • @rebeccalopez2997
    @rebeccalopez29975 жыл бұрын

    I'm not scared of you.

  • @rebeccalopez2997

    @rebeccalopez2997

    5 жыл бұрын

    @truth will set you free You conflate nationality with race.

  • @volkansmt9574
    @volkansmt95745 жыл бұрын

    This race stuff is very confusing in America

  • @donkeyshow8543

    @donkeyshow8543

    5 жыл бұрын

    Bunch of lazy indoor cats clawing their eyes out over breeding and pedigree. They have nothing better to do with their lives.

  • @robertcherry7190

    @robertcherry7190

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@donkeyshow8543 - novel assessment.

  • @kodidrive3033

    @kodidrive3033

    5 жыл бұрын

    The United States is of America not itself America. The whole continent of the New World is America.

  • @rodayodryve7998

    @rodayodryve7998

    4 жыл бұрын

    Time to get rid of it. It is really just a scratch off since so many Americans are of mixed decent. Grow up everyone.

  • @alondathomas293

    @alondathomas293

    4 жыл бұрын

    It is, but is just normal here, lol. Having grown up in Michigan, it's cool to see and hear places I know being referenced here. Also nice to see the Masonic Temple, too.

  • @Bynaree
    @Bynaree4 жыл бұрын

    Great Man.

  • @marthalott5346
    @marthalott53465 жыл бұрын

    I enjoyed your words..

  • @alithejumbo
    @alithejumbo5 жыл бұрын

    Viva Palestina with its capital al-Kuds (Juralism) ❤️

  • @ogasontop

    @ogasontop

    5 жыл бұрын

    you know it didnt belong to them in the past

  • @abokareem7586

    @abokareem7586

    3 жыл бұрын

    Palestine forever✌✌✌✌✌✌✌✌✌✌

  • @alithejumbo

    @alithejumbo

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ogasontop On yah? And American didn't belong to any American in the past. So probably they should go back to Europe, eh?

  • @alithejumbo

    @alithejumbo

    3 жыл бұрын

    @drc ula F**k off

  • @parisan9985

    @parisan9985

    3 жыл бұрын

    *Jerusalem

  • @davidbak6984
    @davidbak69843 жыл бұрын

    We may not be white, but some of us pass as white. I have Armenian-Iranian roots and I have blue eyes and I look white, so I would never classify myself as a „Person of Colour“

  • @worthlessdollar1

    @worthlessdollar1

    3 жыл бұрын

    Your race is Caucasoid. You are the same race as white Europeans.

  • @cato9105

    @cato9105

    2 жыл бұрын

    You are a White person, Persians and Armenians are white.

  • @khmatjshmid1591

    @khmatjshmid1591

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@worthlessdollar1 caucasoid is unscientific and the three race theory has been debated heavily due to the lack of real science. Middle easterners are not the same race as white Europeans. There genome is different

  • @mithridatesi9981

    @mithridatesi9981

    2 жыл бұрын

    Persians and Armenians are genetically identical. You are a caucasoid

  • @gerryadams9868

    @gerryadams9868

    3 ай бұрын

    @@khmatjshmid1591no Middle Eastern and Europeans share the most common dna ancestry and it’s not hard to see giving the close distance, unless you want to align yourself with Pakistan and india but go ahead saarr

  • @MarwanAlarnous
    @MarwanAlarnous4 жыл бұрын

    hhhhhhhhhhhhh LOVE the ending !!

  • @ProudAfrican
    @ProudAfrican5 жыл бұрын

    God bless him, maa shaa Allah.

  • @1970mansor
    @1970mansor5 жыл бұрын

    This guy came to my school

  • @KENDRASCHARLES
    @KENDRASCHARLES5 жыл бұрын

    In America, race is strictly political.

  • @theamandapratt
    @theamandapratt5 жыл бұрын

    Great Delivery 👍

  • @kemigbeleko9460
    @kemigbeleko94604 жыл бұрын

    Love from Nigeria Africa

  • @chun1310
    @chun13105 жыл бұрын

    Yeh be proud of your race and culture ..

  • @valuecalc

    @valuecalc

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ali Abbas Agha , why? It wasn't earned.

  • @muhammedibrahim9452
    @muhammedibrahim94525 жыл бұрын

    Wow. Standup comedians can now perform on Ted Talks.

  • @NawalH.
    @NawalH.5 жыл бұрын

    The whole thing is amazing especially 11:32 part

  • @joannlewis3559
    @joannlewis35595 жыл бұрын

    The best food court ever - hilarious! .

  • @NoFlyZone01
    @NoFlyZone015 жыл бұрын

    Sad part is, I can imagine some White Evangelicals pointing spots in the U.S. and saying, “Jesus ate here.” 🤦‍♂️

  • @poopoopants7904

    @poopoopants7904

    2 жыл бұрын

    LMAOOO

  • @viiplayer1
    @viiplayer14 жыл бұрын

    bruh this man is hilarious. 100% agree with everything he said.

  • @fisebilillah4406
    @fisebilillah44064 жыл бұрын

    8:20 😂😂😂 "That's all"😂😂

  • @mikeking6734
    @mikeking67345 жыл бұрын

    Damn right!

  • @tarekibnziad253
    @tarekibnziad2534 жыл бұрын

    I am arab and i relate to this video 😂😂😂😂

  • @BudiYunior
    @BudiYunior5 жыл бұрын

    if your name is JIHAD..... be J..🤣

  • @999Mher
    @999Mher5 жыл бұрын

    11:52 I'm dead 🤣

  • @sasha08271977

    @sasha08271977

    5 жыл бұрын

    Barev aper jan :)

  • @DisDutch
    @DisDutch Жыл бұрын

    ' well Jesus ate here". LOLOL

  • @theon_ean_donly
    @theon_ean_donly5 жыл бұрын

    He shouldn't have to address this issue this way but it is awesome that he can...laughter, joy, and love are colorless

  • @selin1286
    @selin12865 жыл бұрын

    As a Turk i can relate to all of the things he said

  • @selin1286

    @selin1286

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Mr K I have been living in Turkey for 21 years and I still can't tell. Western Turks tend to be European with white skin, light colour eyes and European culture (like myself) Eastern Turks have more Middle Eastern and Central Asian look and culture.

  • @tylerpatti9038

    @tylerpatti9038

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Mr K Actually "real" Turks are northeast Asian looking similar to the Mongols Central Asian Turk are a mix of Turk and Scythian.

  • @DontNeedToKnow84

    @DontNeedToKnow84

    5 жыл бұрын

    Selin Ortaboy Your people are occupying land that does not belong to them. And you look mixed race. But you’re still pretty.

  • @selin1286

    @selin1286

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Mr K you should never say to a turk that we are not "real turks" not every turk is as tolerant as i am.

  • @selin1286

    @selin1286

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Mr K hahaha of course not :D but no need to make anybody mad right? Well, we are Oghuz Turks not Kypchak Turks. And we are as mixed as anybody else. I'm sure you have some Indian and Afghan blood...

  • @hitkill2
    @hitkill25 жыл бұрын

    I'm from from where this guy is from , and I like everything he complains about and I don't want them to change , GO ARABS !!! LOL . But the problem with being classified as white is that we aren't practically treated as whites , it's just a paradox. that's all . Have great one all

  • @NikoBellaKhouf

    @NikoBellaKhouf

    3 жыл бұрын

    Palestinians aren't Arabs

  • @hitkill2

    @hitkill2

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@NikoBellaKhouf what are they?

  • @NikoBellaKhouf

    @NikoBellaKhouf

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@hitkill2 we're mixed. Originally we're Canaanite and Philistine. We mixed with other cultures over time. So my personal mix is Canaanite, Philistine, Sardinian, Armenian, and Turkish.

  • @hitkill2

    @hitkill2

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@NikoBellaKhoufso we are not arabs?

  • @oliveraparicio8464

    @oliveraparicio8464

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@hitkill2 Your not White(European) people. Arabs aren't WASP people! Its usually the Arabs that desperately want to part of WASP because of the enormous generational wealth they have accumulated since 1778 and present time. WASP people have absolute control over the HARD power(Military, Security contractors, Military hardware and ammunition manufacturing)of the USA.

  • @Mk-op7jo
    @Mk-op7jo3 жыл бұрын

    Love the Ted talk.. so funny. Lol we’re fighting to make the price higher.🤣

  • @campt.v.1517
    @campt.v.15175 жыл бұрын

    I almost cried at the end well done

  • @hopea998
    @hopea9984 жыл бұрын

    My name is Amal, and it will always be♥️ I never understood people who have Americanized names

  • @NikoBellaKhouf

    @NikoBellaKhouf

    3 жыл бұрын

    I have a name so difficult to pronounce than the majority of Arabic speakers can't even pronounce it right. And I hate how it sounds when they try to pronounce it. Plus my nickname has the same meaning as my given name.

  • @mookgirl74
    @mookgirl745 жыл бұрын

    So gooooddd, sooooo funny!!!💖😎👏😂

  • @abdulazizaljarof7776
    @abdulazizaljarof77763 жыл бұрын

    where are you from from ,amazing 😂

  • @gibshorts5659
    @gibshorts5659 Жыл бұрын

    I am British and Egyptian, but i don’t see the fuss, maybe it’s just me but, i don’t really care about race or ethnicity or whatever, i see a lot of people, mixed race or like me who are white, but chose to embrace the ethnic side of their family and i see why, they feel ashamed, what i’m tryna say is that you should be proud of both, if that’s your case. I have experienced islamophobia once or twice, i’m only twelve so i’m probably gonna get more islamophobia as my life progresses, it’s bad.

  • @daveabdallah8680
    @daveabdallah86805 жыл бұрын

    The funniest Arab comedian lol

  • @fatinajaber591

    @fatinajaber591

    5 жыл бұрын

    I watched him before, he’s really good never boring.

  • @SKhan-fk7cn

    @SKhan-fk7cn

    5 жыл бұрын

    He is an American.

  • @valuecalc

    @valuecalc

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@SKhan-fk7cn, with Arab roots.

  • @tyrahairston3250
    @tyrahairston32505 жыл бұрын

    This was awesome! My husband family is Arab, however they identify as white. It has taken me a couple of years to convince him he is NOT white.

  • @KitKat-rd7nt

    @KitKat-rd7nt

    4 жыл бұрын

    What business is that of yours what race people identify with? Mind your own god damned business

  • @valuecalc

    @valuecalc

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@KitKat-rd7nt , get serious. Claiming something without convincing anyone is ridiculous. That chick's husband isn't white. Why the denial?

  • @valuecalc

    @valuecalc

    3 жыл бұрын

    @lyes kara , his true self...

  • @mohamedkabha6861

    @mohamedkabha6861

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@valuecalc arabs come in all shades it is a cultural identity not a genetic one

  • @valuecalc

    @valuecalc

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@mohamedkabha6861 , within reason... If Nicole Kidman suddenly claimed to be Arab, then I'd laugh.

  • @JudyChilds-fu4em
    @JudyChilds-fu4em5 жыл бұрын

    If U go through the extensive process...! 😂

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