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=> Re: more modern Assyrian foolishness

Re: more modern Assyrian foolishness
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Tuesday, April 19 2016, 15:10:17 (UTC)
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Rashad wrote:
>That's very true, and it was in the middle east where they knew how to speak their language while in the west they're losing it due to newer generation and assimilation. You not supposed to assimilate in your own country but it's fully okay to do it in Sweden or the US.

...that could be our greatest tragedy and the thing which allowed Chaldeans to forge head of us both in Iraq and in preparation for life in the US: Chaldeans assimilated super-well in Iraq and therefore got used to what it takes to succeed in commercial and communal life...we Assyrians kept to ourselves(that is, kept to our various sects whereas Chaldeans were mostly only Catholics), refused to enter fully into life in Iraq, as Iraqis, and were as a result unused and unfamiliar with either success in Iraq or in preparation to really take advantage of life in America and elsewhere.

...we had a tribal, peasant mentality because we refused to fully engage in life outside our tribe, our sects....only our churches knew us...and those meant nothing in America.



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