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Re: Nationality Vs. Ethnicity/Assyrians the latter, no?

Posted by beezelbub (Guest) - Tuesday, September 27 2005, 0:04:57 (CEST)
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Emil wrote:
>Nationality? What's all this talk about Assyrians being a "nationality"? I'm confused. (Or as my favorite sculptor would say "cuntfused". Oops, I swore. I'm going to hell.) How could we be a nationality if we don't have a nation?
>Help me here, Maggie, Farid, Jeff, and others- except Dalale, please!!! Aren't we an "ethnicity"?
>In laymen's terms, please. It takes a long time for me to absorb this stuff. Thanks.

...I can´t figure out what an ethnicity is, let alone a nationality...in them old hairy days when people stayed put it was easy to figure who was which ethnicity...likewise with ntionality...you were of the nation, the country or land mass, that you were born in and that pretty much settled what ethnicity you were. But what do you do today when a kid is born to an African mother and an Italisn father in Lithuania and lives there for only ten years...then moves to Scotland? What the hell IS he? He´s an ethnic mix if there ever was one and he has little or no ethnic affinity with his nation either and may never learn a thing about his mother or his father´s ethnic group. It´s safest to say your an Earthling.

...but, in answer to the spirit of your question..."Assyrians" have no nation...not unless they mean the one they were born in..the one that exists TODAY and not some Albion or Gaul or Asyria of hundreds or three thousand years ago. It´s a dumb ass little game they play...a prelude to demanding you give them a "country"...to make up for what was "taken" from them.

I was born in Iraq and spent all of six days there...plus one year...much later. Does that make me an Iraqi? I´m a nationalized American citizen...did I stop being Iraqi...was I ever? I guess it depends on what you WANT to be...if you want to stand a real dictionary on its head and then read it backwards...you can claim to be an "Assyrian" from "Assyria"...but no one will take you seriously...and no one does.

I trust that´s as confusing as can be.

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Nationality Vs. Ethnicity/Assyrians the latter, no? Emil - Monday, September 26 2005, 23:13:17 (CEST)
- Re: Nationality Vs. Ethnicity/Assyrians the latter, no? beezelbub - 09/27 00:04
- Re: Nationality Vs. Ethnicity/Assyrians the latter, no? Maggie - 09/27 01:17
  - Re: Nationality Vs. Ethnicity/Assyrians the latter, no? beezelbub - 09/27 04:35
    - Re: Nationality Vs. Ethnicity/Assyrians the latter, no? Emil - 09/27 12:07
      - Re: Nationality Vs. Ethnicity/Assyrians the latter, no? Maggie - 09/27 20:26
- Re: Nationality Vs. Ethnicity/Assyrians the latter, no? Jeff - 09/27 20:00

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