Editing Arab Americans (section)

==Non-Arab Americans from Arab countries==
There are many US immigrants from the [[Arab world]] who are not always classified as Arabs because through much of the Arabized world, Arabs were considered a colonizing force and many ethnic groups maintained their ethnic cultural and religious heritage, oftentimes through [[syncretism]]. Among these are [[Armenian Americans]], [[Assyrian Americans]], [[Kurdish Americans]], [[American Jews|Jewish Americans]] of [[Mizrahi Jews|Mizrahi]] origin. Some of these groups, such as Assyrians, are Semitic language speakers, while the vast majority of the rest are not Semitic language speakers. It is very difficult to estimate the size of these communities. For example, some Armenians immigrated to the US from Lebanon, Syria, or Iraq. Estimates place these communities at least in the tens of thousands.<ref name="American Community Survey2">{{cite web|title=Total ancestry categories tallied for people with one or more ancestry categories reported 2011 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates|url=https://archive.org/details/2011AmericanCommunitySurveyAncestry|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=22 December 2012}}</ref><ref>"2006–2010 American Community Survey Selected Population Tables". Government of the United States of America. Government of the United States of America. Retrieved 5 August 2013.</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Ben-Ur|first1=Aviva|title=Sephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic History|date=2009|publisher=NYU Press|location=New York|isbn=9780814786321|page=35}}</ref> Other smaller communities include [[Assyrian people|Assyrians]], [[Berbers|Amazigh/Berber]], [[Turkish people|Turks]], [[Mandeans]], [[Circassians]], [[Shabaks]], [[Georgians]], [[Yazidis]], [[Baloch people|Balochs]], [[Persians|Iranians]], [[Azerbaijanis]], and [[Doms in Iraq|Kawliya]]/[[Romani people|Roma]].

Most of these ethnic groups speak their own native languages (usually another Semitic language related to Arabic) and have their own customs, along with the Arabic dialect from the Arab country they originate from.