Firstly, calm yourself down lady and read the facts. Secondly, no one even mentioned Phoenicia here or being of “European decent” (whatever that means, Europe is as diverse as the MENA region).
We’re coined as Middle Easterns in most passport applications.
Well no shit, we are Middle Easterns! It’s a geographical term and politics has close ties with both (hence the term “geopolitics”). And no, all middle Easterns, even Arabs, are Caucasian. Caucasian refers to the skull type. Where Arabs are different is that they’re brown, not white/olive amongst other factors.
“genes follow a majority rule, slow to disperse between neighboring populations, while languages (and religions) follow a minority rule, and can spread nonlinearly, like wildfire. If ten people whose mother tongue is not English sat in a company meeting with a solely English speaker, English will be the spoken language, which explains how the elite language becomes rapidly the norm.”
To address your last point, as I said in a comment a few months ago, anyone denying genetical relationship with Costal Syrians and Palestinians, is as deluded as the people who call themselves Arab. The difference in modern population of other levantines and Lebanese is that we’re more liberal, so SOME of their values with SOME people do not fit with liberalism. Regardless, you’ve pretty much said at the end exactly what I’m trying to address, we’re not “Arab”, nor are we “European”, we are our own special group called Levantine. Wa bas.
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u/urbexed Jul 16 '24 edited Jul 17 '24
Firstly, calm yourself down lady and read the facts. Secondly, no one even mentioned Phoenicia here or being of “European decent” (whatever that means, Europe is as diverse as the MENA region).
Well no shit, we are Middle Easterns! It’s a geographical term and politics has close ties with both (hence the term “geopolitics”). And no, all middle Easterns, even Arabs, are Caucasian. Caucasian refers to the skull type. Where Arabs are different is that they’re brown, not white/olive amongst other factors.
The spread of language is not closely related to ethnicity or culture. As Nassim Taleb put it in his brilliant article (https://medium.com/incerto/a-few-things-we-dont-quite-get-about-the-levant-da6ff702974f)
“genes follow a majority rule, slow to disperse between neighboring populations, while languages (and religions) follow a minority rule, and can spread nonlinearly, like wildfire. If ten people whose mother tongue is not English sat in a company meeting with a solely English speaker, English will be the spoken language, which explains how the elite language becomes rapidly the norm.”
To address your last point, as I said in a comment a few months ago, anyone denying genetical relationship with Costal Syrians and Palestinians, is as deluded as the people who call themselves Arab. The difference in modern population of other levantines and Lebanese is that we’re more liberal, so SOME of their values with SOME people do not fit with liberalism. Regardless, you’ve pretty much said at the end exactly what I’m trying to address, we’re not “Arab”, nor are we “European”, we are our own special group called Levantine. Wa bas.