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The Americas have long been a place of Arab migration, arriving as early as the nineteenth century in some countries. The largest Arab colony in the world resides in Brazil, which has over 12 million Brazilians of Arab ancestry. Of these 12 million Brazilian Arabs, over 9 million are of Lebanese ancestry, making Brazil's population of Lebanese three times greater than that of Lebanon. Most other Brazilians of Arab descent are mainly Syria n. There are also large Arab communities in Mexico , Argentina , Colombia , Ecuador , and Venezuela . In the United States there are around 3.5 million people of Arab ancestry. Most Arabs of the Americas are of either Lebanese or Syrian extraction and are mostly Christian . In France , the Benelux countries, Spain and much of the rest of Europe , the Arab communities are of North Africa n origin, particularly Algeria and Morocco , and are mostly Muslim . There is also a medium sized Arab community in Australia , where Arabic is the fourth most widely spoken second-language. The number of Muslim and Christian Arab Australians are roughly equal. Arab Americans in the United States , for the purposes of statistics, are categorised as White by government agencies and US census. This racial classification, however, is seldom the case for most Arab Americans who are often excluded from the general structural concepts of white-American society. Many Arab Americans are not completely comfortable with this label. It is viewed by some as a means to Assimilate and drown out their ethnicity. Other Arabs throughout the Americas are also generally classified as "white" for the same reasons. In Australia just the opposite is true of Arabs, where they are ''not'' categorised as ''white''. Prominent members of the Arab diaspora include;
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