Classify some Jordanians of Circassians descent

[Avicenna]

Was browsing through the Jordanian Rugby team ( national) and was taken back at how light they looked, did some digging and found out that majority of them were of Circassian descent , based on their surnames, Biography info on their personal Instagrams and appearances.

https://i.ibb.co/hMV0S6g/Screenshot-20231217-002405.jpg (https://ibb.co/cvQqjBy)
https://i.ibb.co/wL2138b/Screenshot-20231217-002204.jpg (https://ibb.co/KG8HRBQ)
https://i.ibb.co/kBXmpPJ/Screenshot-20231217-002154.jpg (https://ibb.co/ZXx23bS)
https://i.ibb.co/zVmkDf7/Screenshot-20231217-002131.jpg (https://ibb.co/Ld0GHpJ)
https://i.ibb.co/FJQxKw4/Screenshot-20231217-002217.jpg (https://ibb.co/ZKQLV8z)
https://i.ibb.co/HB0xmCn/Screenshot-20231217-002211.jpg (https://ibb.co/k5p9YJQ)

[Oliver109]

I wouldn't say they are that light, more like regular Spaniards in pigmentation. What percentage of Jordanians are of foreign ancestry?

[Avicenna]

I wouldn't say they are that light, more like regular Spaniards in pigmentation. What percentage of Jordanians are of foreign ancestry?

And a regular spaniard is significantly lighter and more northern looking than a local ethnic Arab living in Jordan. That's the point I was making....they seemed very off with strange arabised sounding names. They even have a rugby team in Amman and nearly all of the players ( men and women) were of Circassian descent. They seemed very northern shifted and did not look like Jordanians.

Jordan football team ( most likely a mix of Jordanians and Palestinians)

https://i.ibb.co/42VWKCR/201293big17675.jpg (https://ibb.co/sCVjbc9)

Circassians founded modern amman, I have also noticed they are usually middle class. Numbers vary but Wikipedia says 250,000 ethnic Circassians in Jordan.

[Oliver109]

And a regular spaniard is significantly lighter and more northern looking than a local ethnic Arab living in Jordan. That's the point I was making....they seemed very off with strange arabised sounding names. They even have a rugby team in Amman and nearly all of the players ( men and women) were of Circassian descent. They seemed very northern shifted and did not look like Jordanians.

Circassians founded modern amman, I have also noticed they are usually middle class. Numbers vary but Wikipedia says 250,000 ethnic Circassians in Jordan.

Interesting, would you say that Jordanians are more like Lebanese ethnically speaking?

[sacha]

I wouldn't say they are that light, more like regular Spaniards in pigmentation. What percentage of Jordanians are of foreign ancestry?

Jordan is 95% Arab, 3% Circassians and 2% Armenians apparently. Keep it mind there are about 2.5 million Palestinians in a country of est 11.5 million, and many other Arab refugees, counted under Arab. I think it is the country with the most refugees per capita.

[Avicenna]

Interesting, would you say that Jordanians are more like Lebanese ethnically speaking?

I don't get the question? How so like Lebanese?

Btw check out this thread

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?379806-Classify-this-Afghan-fella-(-does-he-look-Spanish-)

[Avicenna]

Jordan is 95% Arab, 3% Circassians and 2% Armenians apparently. Keep it mind there are about 2.5 million Palestinians in a country of est 11.5 million, and many other Arab refugees, counted under Arab. I think it is the country with the most refugees per capita.

Yeah Palestinians increase the Arab population by a large margin. Circassians do indeed make up a good chunk of Jordans upper class families, hence why they might seem overrepresented in certain sectors and Jordanian Diaspora.

[Avicenna]

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