Dust was a student at the Xavier Institute and one of the New X-Men in training. She is identified by her Niqab, which she wears instead of the traditional X-Men uniform. She is currently enrolled at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.
She is beautiful, but... she also suffers from the same problem as Monet. They make her features too European. What's wrong with finding an artist who can draw more than just white people?
I don't think Sooraya is underrated.People here have been saying she's pretty since her face was first shown in comics.She's just not a very popular character.
" I don't think Sooraya is underrated.People here have been saying she's pretty since her face was first shown in comics.She's just not a very popular character. "
i think she's considered underrated as she's easily passed over/forgotten
" I don't think Sooraya is underrated.People here have been saying she's pretty since her face was first shown in comics.She's just not a very popular character. "
i think she's considered underrated as she's easily passed over/forgotten "
She's dead already.She's forgotten because she's only been around for a short time.It's easily to remember you like Wonder Woman,Ms.Marvel,Spider-Woman,Mockingbird,Emma Frost etc.Characters you see all the time.
" I don't think Sooraya is underrated.People here have been saying she's pretty since her face was first shown in comics.She's just not a very popular character. "
i think she's considered underrated as she's easily passed over/forgotten "
She's dead already.She's forgotten because she's only been around for a short time.It's easily to remember you like Wonder Woman,Ms.Marvel,Spider-Woman,Mockingbird,Emma Frost etc.Characters you see all the time. "
she's not dead homie b.fly. Plus with her robe, people forget what she looks like.
" I don't think Sooraya is underrated.People here have been saying she's pretty since her face was first shown in comics.She's just not a very popular character. "
i think she's considered underrated as she's easily passed over/forgotten "
She's dead already.She's forgotten because she's only been around for a short time.It's easily to remember you like Wonder Woman,Ms.Marvel,Spider-Woman,Mockingbird,Emma Frost etc.Characters you see all the time. "
she's not dead homie b.fly. Plus with her robe, people forget what she looks like. "
I thought she was dead? Didn't she fall apart or something?
@Vance Astro: I don't have the issues to give you a better summary, but her page says " new teammate Ink exhausted himself using the powers of his newly acquired Phoenix tattoo to heal Sooraya". I'm guessing she pulled herself back together with a little help from the fake-mutant.
" @Vance Astro: I don't have the issues to give you a better summary, but her page says " new teammate Ink exhausted himself using the powers of his newly acquired Phoenix tattoo to heal Sooraya". I'm guessing she pulled herself back together with a little help from the fake-mutant. "
" @Vance Astro: I don't have the issues to give you a better summary, but her page says " new teammate Ink exhausted himself using the powers of his newly acquired Phoenix tattoo to heal Sooraya". I'm guessing she pulled herself back together with a little help from the fake-mutant. "
Thanks Xerox... "
@xerox-kitty said:
" @Vance Astro: I don't have the issues to give you a better summary, but her page says " new teammate Ink exhausted himself using the powers of his newly acquired Phoenix tattoo to heal Sooraya". I'm guessing she pulled herself back together with a little help from the fake-mutant. "
Yeah, he basically sacrificed himself to save her.
" I don't think Sooraya is underrated.People here have been saying she's pretty since her face was first shown in comics.She's just not a very popular character. "
i think she's considered underrated as she's easily passed over/forgotten "
She's dead already.She's forgotten because she's only been around for a short time.It's easily to remember you like Wonder Woman,Ms.Marvel,Spider-Woman,Mockingbird,Emma Frost etc.Characters you see all the time. "
agree. she was reaching some status for a short while, even appearing in multiple books. then she was swept under the rug like most interesting new characters. with Rogue taken lead of the younger students, hopefully she will have a good role in Legacy. I would love to see Carey's take on Dust.
In order for people to care about Dust she has to be a major part of a Marvel event.She "almost" died and nobody really cared.I didn't even know she was alive.
@AngelFrost: But if she were to remove it, she just be another 'classic' character her beauty is remark through the fact we don't see each day and by the form her character is shape, from her strengths and weakness and if you ask me Dust, is hell a lot stronger than most other mutants now. Rogue should not be able to touch her sense Dust, just setting an example and she could injured big power guys by going inside their bodies and ripping them apart
Arab people are defined as people who speak Arabic or come from Arabic and, typically (though not necessarily), Muslim influenced cultures. Stating that they are all categorized as white is problematic because they can really be of any "race" (by American standards since how race is defined differs from culture to culture because it's a purely imaginary sociological construct). But, if you're judging from skin tone alone, than you'd find that not only are Arabic people not categorized as being white, as a whole, but a vast majority of them are simply not white. For instance, northern Ethiopia has a largely Arabic speaking, Muslim culture and nobody in their right mind would consider them "white".
Arab people are defined as people who speak Arabic or come from Arabic and, typically (though not necessarily), Muslim influenced cultures. Stating that they are all categorized as white is problematic because they can really be of any "race" (by American standards since how race is defined differs from culture to culture because it's a purely imaginary sociological construct). But, if you're judging from skin tone alone, than you'd find that not only are Arabic people not categorized as being white, as a whole, but a vast majority of them are simply not white. For instance, northern Ethiopia has a largely Arabic speaking, Muslim culture and nobody in their right mind would consider them "white".
People from northern Africa aren't white! Stop the presses! They're not considered Arab either.
Here comes my biggest pet peeve with European/America categorizations. First and foremost: Arab means you're from the Arabian peninsula or your lineage is from there. This is why most Egyptians are considered Arab, but not Iranians. Egyptians intermingled a lot with the Arabs and absorbed Arab culture during the Muslim Invasions; while the Iranians resisted. So Palestinian, Iranian, Afghan, Israeli and Armenai are the groups that aren't Arab in the area known as the Middle East(If you want you can count Turkey in there too, parts of Syria as well, they're Turks). Saudi, Emirate, Yemeni, most Iraqi's, Egyptian, kuwaiti,Omani and some of the Syrians are Arab. There's also a large swath of the northern part of the Middle East that is Kurdish.
And here's the kicker everyone from that region is still considered white.
Arab people are defined as people who speak Arabic or come from Arabic and, typically (though not necessarily), Muslim influenced cultures. Stating that they are all categorized as white is problematic because they can really be of any "race" (by American standards since how race is defined differs from culture to culture because it's a purely imaginary sociological construct). But, if you're judging from skin tone alone, than you'd find that not only are Arabic people not categorized as being white, as a whole, but a vast majority of them are simply not white. For instance, northern Ethiopia has a largely Arabic speaking, Muslim culture and nobody in their right mind would consider them "white".
People from northern Africa aren't white! Stop the presses! They're not considered Arab either. Here comes my biggest pet peeve with European/America categorizations. First and foremost: Arab means you're from the Arabian peninsula or your lineage is from there. This is why most Egyptians are considered Arab, but not Iranians. Egyptians intermingled a lot with the Arabs and absorbed Arab culture during the Muslim Invasions; while the Iranians resisted. So Palestinian, Iranian, Afghan, Israeli and Armenai are the groups that aren't Arab in the area known as the Middle East(If you want you can count Turkey in there too, parts of Syria as well, they're Turks). Saudi, Emirate, Yemeni, most Iraqi's, Egyptian, kuwaiti,Omani and some of the Syrians are Arab. There's also a large swath of the northern part of the Middle East that is Kurdish. And here's the kicker everyone from that region is still considered white.
From a strictly Arab Nationalist perspective, it would be true that only those who have lineage coming directly from the Arabian peninsula would be considered Arabic.(By the way, Ethiopians also "intermingled a lot with the Arabs and absorbed Arab culture during the Muslim Invasions", so why are they exempt from being categorized as Arabs?) But I'm taking my definition from the United Arab League:
"An Arab is a person whose language is Arabic, who lives in an Arabic-speaking country, and who is in sympathy with the aspirations of the Arabic-speaking peoples."
And using that definition and the American/European standards of defining race it's clear that many Arab people are not white. If you want to insist that Arabs are, wholesale, without exception categorized as white, then, whatever. As I said earlier, it's all just an imaginary sociological construct. At the core of it, we're all just people.
Arab people are defined as people who speak Arabic or come from Arabic and, typically (though not necessarily), Muslim influenced cultures. Stating that they are all categorized as white is problematic because they can really be of any "race" (by American standards since how race is defined differs from culture to culture because it's a purely imaginary sociological construct). But, if you're judging from skin tone alone, than you'd find that not only are Arabic people not categorized as being white, as a whole, but a vast majority of them are simply not white. For instance, northern Ethiopia has a largely Arabic speaking, Muslim culture and nobody in their right mind would consider them "white".
People from northern Africa aren't white! Stop the presses! They're not considered Arab either. Here comes my biggest pet peeve with European/America categorizations. First and foremost: Arab means you're from the Arabian peninsula or your lineage is from there. This is why most Egyptians are considered Arab, but not Iranians. Egyptians intermingled a lot with the Arabs and absorbed Arab culture during the Muslim Invasions; while the Iranians resisted. So Palestinian, Iranian, Afghan, Israeli and Armenai are the groups that aren't Arab in the area known as the Middle East(If you want you can count Turkey in there too, parts of Syria as well, they're Turks). Saudi, Emirate, Yemeni, most Iraqi's, Egyptian, kuwaiti,Omani and some of the Syrians are Arab. There's also a large swath of the northern part of the Middle East that is Kurdish. And here's the kicker everyone from that region is still considered white.
From a strictly Arab Nationalist perspective, it would be true that only those who have lineage coming directly from the Arabian peninsula would be considered Arabic.(By the way, Ethiopians also "intermingled a lot with the Arabs and absorbed Arab culture during the Muslim Invasions", so why are they exempt from being categorized as Arabs?) But I'm taking my definition from the United Arab League: "An Arab is a person whose language is Arabic, who lives in an Arabic-speaking country, and who is in sympathy with the aspirations of the Arabic-speaking peoples." And using that definition and the American/European standards of defining race it's clear that many Arab people are not white. If you want to insist that Arabs are, wholesale, without exception categorized as white, then, whatever. As I said earlier, it's all just an imaginary sociological construct. At the core of it, we're all just people.
http://www.arab.de/arabinfo/league.htm
You mean this Arab League? That doesn't have Ethiopia in there?
Wikipedia less. Your definition is the loosest possible, one that very few, if not none of the people from the Middle East would use. Not to mention Ethiopia's official language isn't Arabic, it's Amharic, so your definition doesn't even fit for Ethiopia either.
Arab people are defined as people who speak Arabic or come from Arabic and, typically (though not necessarily), Muslim influenced cultures. Stating that they are all categorized as white is problematic because they can really be of any "race" (by American standards since how race is defined differs from culture to culture because it's a purely imaginary sociological construct). But, if you're judging from skin tone alone, than you'd find that not only are Arabic people not categorized as being white, as a whole, but a vast majority of them are simply not white. For instance, northern Ethiopia has a largely Arabic speaking, Muslim culture and nobody in their right mind would consider them "white".
People from northern Africa aren't white! Stop the presses! They're not considered Arab either. Here comes my biggest pet peeve with European/America categorizations. First and foremost: Arab means you're from the Arabian peninsula or your lineage is from there. This is why most Egyptians are considered Arab, but not Iranians. Egyptians intermingled a lot with the Arabs and absorbed Arab culture during the Muslim Invasions; while the Iranians resisted. So Palestinian, Iranian, Afghan, Israeli and Armenai are the groups that aren't Arab in the area known as the Middle East(If you want you can count Turkey in there too, parts of Syria as well, they're Turks). Saudi, Emirate, Yemeni, most Iraqi's, Egyptian, kuwaiti,Omani and some of the Syrians are Arab. There's also a large swath of the northern part of the Middle East that is Kurdish. And here's the kicker everyone from that region is still considered white.
From a strictly Arab Nationalist perspective, it would be true that only those who have lineage coming directly from the Arabian peninsula would be considered Arabic.(By the way, Ethiopians also "intermingled a lot with the Arabs and absorbed Arab culture during the Muslim Invasions", so why are they exempt from being categorized as Arabs?) But I'm taking my definition from the United Arab League: "An Arab is a person whose language is Arabic, who lives in an Arabic-speaking country, and who is in sympathy with the aspirations of the Arabic-speaking peoples." And using that definition and the American/European standards of defining race it's clear that many Arab people are not white. If you want to insist that Arabs are, wholesale, without exception categorized as white, then, whatever. As I said earlier, it's all just an imaginary sociological construct. At the core of it, we're all just people.
http://www.arab.de/arabinfo/league.htm You mean this Arab League? That doesn't have Ethiopia in there? Wikipedia less. Your definition is the loosest possible, one that very few, if not none of the people from the Middle East would use. Not to mention Ethiopia's official language isn't Arabic, it's Amharic, so your definition doesn't even fit for Ethiopia either.
Hm? Oh, good point. Didn't even check to see if Ethiopia was part of the Arab League. I made the assumption simply because I knew that neighboring Sudan and Somalia were in the Arab League. I think that the definition is loose in order settle any contention about the definition of who is and who is not an Arab due to vast array of dissenting opinions on the matter. And I still stand by my original opinion that Arab people are not really white.
Edit: Where exactly are you getting your opinion that Arabs do consider themselves white?
Arab people are defined as people who speak Arabic or come from Arabic and, typically (though not necessarily), Muslim influenced cultures. Stating that they are all categorized as white is problematic because they can really be of any "race" (by American standards since how race is defined differs from culture to culture because it's a purely imaginary sociological construct). But, if you're judging from skin tone alone, than you'd find that not only are Arabic people not categorized as being white, as a whole, but a vast majority of them are simply not white. For instance, northern Ethiopia has a largely Arabic speaking, Muslim culture and nobody in their right mind would consider them "white".
People from northern Africa aren't white! Stop the presses! They're not considered Arab either. Here comes my biggest pet peeve with European/America categorizations. First and foremost: Arab means you're from the Arabian peninsula or your lineage is from there. This is why most Egyptians are considered Arab, but not Iranians. Egyptians intermingled a lot with the Arabs and absorbed Arab culture during the Muslim Invasions; while the Iranians resisted. So Palestinian, Iranian, Afghan, Israeli and Armenai are the groups that aren't Arab in the area known as the Middle East(If you want you can count Turkey in there too, parts of Syria as well, they're Turks). Saudi, Emirate, Yemeni, most Iraqi's, Egyptian, kuwaiti,Omani and some of the Syrians are Arab. There's also a large swath of the northern part of the Middle East that is Kurdish. And here's the kicker everyone from that region is still considered white.
From a strictly Arab Nationalist perspective, it would be true that only those who have lineage coming directly from the Arabian peninsula would be considered Arabic.(By the way, Ethiopians also "intermingled a lot with the Arabs and absorbed Arab culture during the Muslim Invasions", so why are they exempt from being categorized as Arabs?) But I'm taking my definition from the United Arab League: "An Arab is a person whose language is Arabic, who lives in an Arabic-speaking country, and who is in sympathy with the aspirations of the Arabic-speaking peoples." And using that definition and the American/European standards of defining race it's clear that many Arab people are not white. If you want to insist that Arabs are, wholesale, without exception categorized as white, then, whatever. As I said earlier, it's all just an imaginary sociological construct. At the core of it, we're all just people.
http://www.arab.de/arabinfo/league.htm You mean this Arab League? That doesn't have Ethiopia in there? Wikipedia less. Your definition is the loosest possible, one that very few, if not none of the people from the Middle East would use. Not to mention Ethiopia's official language isn't Arabic, it's Amharic, so your definition doesn't even fit for Ethiopia either.
Hm? Oh, good point. Didn't even check to see if Ethiopia was part of the Arab League. I made the assumption simply because I knew that neighboring Sudan and Somalia were in the Arab League. I think that the definition is loose in order settle any contention about the definition of who is and who is not an Arab due to vast array of dissenting opinions on the matter. And I still stand by my original opinion that Arab people are not really white. Edit: Where exactly are you getting your opinion that Arabs do consider themselves white?
Indo-European migration. Europeans, Iranians and such(Arabs) originated from the Caucasus mountains and that's where we get the term Caucasian.
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