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Originally Posted by bobkoure
Right, I know about the Persians (Darius the Great, who lost to Alexander, right?). I also remember at least one student in Beruit referring to the people who lived in Iraq as "Iraqis and Arabs and Kurds" (we'd been takling about the nonsense borders left behind by the Brittish empire...)
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The Iraqis are very nationalistic so typically they are Iraqi first ethnic group second.
As a rule the majority of Iraqis are ethically Arabs and all are culturally Arabs. Obviously minorities like Kurds, Assyrians and Jews are not ethnically Arab.