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Re: Nation and Nationalism Panco said:
Posted by Tiglath (Guest) - Friday, September 8 2006, 14:08:57 (CEST)
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>Our ASSYRIAN nationalism is the most advanced and deep rooted than all the SEMITES people. I don't need Gellner or others to show me what to do , and the Assyrians didn't adopt ASSYRIANISM , because of the DISCOVERY of NINEVEH, we knew that we WERE Assyrians and our Christian Fathers just to name a few Mar Mari, Mar Abdisho of Nsibin, Malpana Gewarges Warda of Erbil and others hundreds OF years ago said and were PROUD ASSYRIANS.
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>Furthermore, YES we were influenced by the WEST to revive that ASSYRIAN nation and nationalism because of two factors:
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>1 - Our people became Christians and were devoted Christians and never bothered themselves with the EARTHLY matters, so they were SORAYEE/CHRISTIANS and

*** I agree. We were Christians who wouldn't assimilate with the rest of our neighbours and jumped on the "Nationalism band-wagon" in order to legitimise our stateless people and secure a homeland, all the while not realising that our homeland already existed. All that was needed was for us to make the biggest paradigm shift in our history and break down the religous walls that separate us from our Islamic cousins.

>2 - They were illiterate people because of lack of knowledge due to the INVADERS who devastated our land starting from the Persians, the Arabs and the Turks. Our people were having the first UNIVERSITY in Nsibin and second one in Edessa which were closed because of the harassment of the above invaders.

** Some of the invaders created stability and advanced our people such as the Arabs while others such as the Mongols brought devastation and destruction to our homeland. I think it's not fair to cast them all in the same boat. We've had the disadvantage of being at the confluence of three continents making our defense untenable during the best of times.

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>Thank you for sharing with me your thoughts and I hope you are doing good and congratulation for your marriage,
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>Your cousin / Ashur

** Thanks khizma, I hope all is well with you and your family as well. Please pass on all my regards.



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