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"Arab culture", "Arab societies", "in Arab societies, everybody thinks the same", etc. It's ridiculous to paint all "Arab societies" across Asia and Africa wit
by megous 3y ago
"Arab culture", "Arab societies", "in Arab societies, everybody thinks the same", etc.
It's ridiculous to paint all "Arab societies" across Asia and Africa with such a wide brush and deny differences.
- dotancohen 3y agoThen you tell me how the Arabs view themselves. Because Arabs that I've spoken with from Palestine, Lebanon, Tunis, and Iraq all mention that they see themselves as a common culture and brotherhood. Interestingly, Moroccans don't seem to share this view from what I've gathered. My samples mostly come from people that I've met abroad or the HelloTalk app which is designed to connect people learning each others' languages. So my sample might be biased, but I don't see how that selection would bias this particular issue.
- master_crab 3y agoThey aren’t a monolith. Levant Arabs have a hard time understanding people from the Maghreb (North Africans). North Africans think differently than Iraqis, and everyone despises Gulf Arabs and their easy oil money and the Wahhabist tendencies of the Saudis. The one thing they have in common is they don’t like the way Palestinians have been treated but have ceased viewing it as “their” fight long ago.
- dotancohen 3y agoYes, I agree with your first paragraph. The second paragraph I agree with less, as the Iraqis that I've talked to do in fact seem to see the Palestinian struggle as their own struggle as well. But I don't claim to really know Iraqi culture.
- master_crab 3y agoThat’s because both Iraqis and Palestinians were occupied and brutalized by America and Israel respectively. so there is much to share. Just like South Africans commiserate with Palestinians or African-Americans about their experiences. But that doesn’t mean Iraqis are going to fight a war for the Palestinians. They have their own problems to deal with.
- dotancohen 3y agoThank you.
- dotancohen 3y ago> Levant Arabs have a hard time understanding people from the Maghreb Do you mean that the Levant Arabs do not understand the Maghrebi language or the Maghrebi culture?
- asylteltine 3y agoInteresting how they see themselves as a brotherhood yet not a single Arab country has ever taken in so called Palestinian refugees in the last 50 years. Jordan most recently just expelled them all! What a brotherhood Or how about that Shiite and Sunni brotherhood going on?