I hope you are right but I have my doubts. I am a Lebanese who’s trying to Love Lebanon. The Lebanese ability to innovate is motivated by personal gains regard

I hope you are right but I have my doubts. I am a Lebanese who’s trying to Love Lebanon. The Lebanese ability to innovate is motivated by personal gains regardless of (and sometimes at the expense of) the benefit to the country as a whole. And that’s because there has rarely been a sense of unity in this country since its inception by the west (even during the so called “Paris of the middle east” era). The first mention of the term Lebanese in books was in the 40’s according to Ngram viewer. http://goo.gl/6T8jhp http://goo.gl/6T8jhp. Before that the area was comprised of diverse clans and tribes loosely held together by the Ottoman Empire. I doubt that Lebanese from diverse backgrounds would have been able to do anything useful before fighting each other on who’s the boss!! BTW the university and guys mentioned in the article are of Armenian origins.