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He is half Syrian. Syrians are not even Arabs. Neither are Lebanese or Egyptian, or Iranian (Persian) people. It just happened that at some point Arabs invaded
by 0x0007 13y ago
He is half Syrian. Syrians are not even Arabs. Neither are Lebanese or Egyptian, or Iranian (Persian) people. It just happened that at some point Arabs invaded their lands.
This is like calling Spanish people Arabs, because Arabs used to be there at some point, or calling English people French, because French used to be there at some point.
The ethnicity knowledge of the Americans is no better than their geographical knowledge.
- nayefc 13y agoPeople living in Syria 3,000 years ago were not Arabs. People living in Syria today, are Arabs. Who is an Arab? Well, one that speaks Arabic and living in an Arab country. You want to get into DNA? I'm Palestinian, born in Jordan and now working in the US. My DNA tests show >60% Middle Eastern/Arab DNA albeit my paternal lineage tracing back to ancient Egypt.
- alaaibrahim 13y agoActually Arabs were living in Syria in 9th century BC.
- nayefc 13y ago9th century BC is ~100 years more recent than 3,000 years ago.
- VMG 13y ago> The ethnicity knowledge of the Americans is no better than their geographical knowledge. You were doing so well with your warning about sweeping generalizations.. FWIW his father seemed to identify as Arab > In the 2007 issue of “Campus gate”, a magazine published by the American University of Beirut, Jandali featured as one of the Arab nationalism activists in Beirut who quickly rose to prominence and was appointed as the director of “Al Urwa Al Wuthka” journal (The trustworthy Guide), a journal that embraced the symbols of the Arab nationalist movement like George Habash, Constantin Zureiq, Shafik al-Hout and many others. http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/10/09/170940.html http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/10/09/170940.html
- coldtea 13y ago>You were doing so well with your warning about sweeping generalizations.. He didn't warn against sweeping generalizations. He warned against MISTAKEN sweeping generalization. This one looks pretty spot on, and has even been tested on survey like questions.
- alaaibrahim 13y ago> Syrians are not even Arabs Well that depends on your definition of Arabs, Some people claim that Arabs are the sons of Ismael, and they were in Saudi Arabia, but the word Arab was first used to describe the Bedouins in Syria. So you could say that Syrians are the original Arabs.
- azth 13y agoI thought that the original Arabs came out of Yemen.
- azth 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_people#Identity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_people#Identity
- dimitar 13y agoSyrians consider themselves Arab and are so according to most definitions. Even the name of the country is Syrian Arab Republic.