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Re: The "Assyrian people"
Posted by pancho (Guest) - Wednesday, January 30 2008, 23:15:27 (CET)
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It is puzzling isn't it? I think one reason they play this up so big is that they're determined not to be called "Arab" Christians. Their hatred for Arabs, under which they lump anyone who is Muslim, has forced them to distance themselves from that title like it was the Plague. To them Iraq is a Muslim nation...therefore to be known as Iraqis might indicate they are Muslims...and since they insist Iraqi Muslims are really Arabs, descended from the Arab conquerors, it becomes important to set themselves apart...they aren't really Iraqis, certainly not "Arabs" and god-forbid, Muslims...they're something entirely different and unique...they are Assyrians and only Christians can be Assyrians.

In their hearts and heads they know no one is going to give them land for it...also that no one is going to support their ditzy claims. I don't think that's their main concern. I think it's important for them to be seen as victims, as martyrs,,,as people who've been "robbed", who've been denied and kept down...who've had their inheritance stolen from them etc.

One thing you notice about the loudest of them is that they haven't accomplished much in life..those who've managed a college degree or bought a nicer car still feel that they could have done so much more in life, if only those damn Arabs hadn't stolen their lands and wealth and kept them "down" and "discriminated" against. It's a way of blaming their poor showing in life, especially when they know people are wondering "what happened to you, oh GREAT Assyrian?"..on forces outside their control..on a theft of their lands which occured long ago, so "what do you expect"?

Of course there's the embarrassing example of the Jews, who been suffering since the day they were born, who've really been persecuted and robbed and kicked around...and yet they've managed to thrive and have given so many brilliant men and women to the world...way beyond what you'd expect from their numbers. You seldom hear a Jew using the Romans as an excuse for his taxi job...or for his lack of education or ability, ambition etc. But it's very appealing for us to have this ready-made excuse for why we're so damn backwards...even when Christian countries around the world have taken us in and allowed us the use of all their wealth and resources. Look at heroes in America...with billions of books and dictionaries they scorn the chance to educate themselves.

The reason we've not managed well, especially those who yelp the most about being the children of Ashurbanipal, might be due to the fact that this Assyrian business cripples the minds of our children...presents them with fantasy and fable in place of rational sense...plus gives them a chip-on-the-shoulder attitude as a result of the way we explain our "persecutions". It becomes a double-whammy....we're encouraged to believe self-serving nonsense, like a steady diet of candy, it doesn't provide real nourishment and protein for building good muscles and sense, but it tastes good...and then we get pissed at our inability, our weakness and lack of stamina, to compete at the races...so we blame Arabs, Turks, the World...everybody but our culture which fed us sugar-coated self-aggrandizement in place of a healthy diet and plenty of exercise.

You can see it easily when you hear parents, or the community say "don't be harsh or critial...after all, he is ASSYRIAN"! Any serious critique, such as real teachers of real students give, is seen by us as "hatred" or a put-down...a negative bashing of a SON OF ASSYRIA. It takes absolutely nothing...no skill or talent whatever to win "praise" in this kind of Assyria...none at all. Just look at Aprim and Rosie-Malek's "books". Any other community would be embarrassed by such things...not us. As also the way we treat Dr Joseph...the only one among us to have gone that far in the actual, academic, scholarly and then professional study of history...a man who taught for years, who is professor emeritus...who had a building named for him on his campus...a man who actually published, really published, books which are in library collections around the world...yet look how we treat him? And why? Because he refuses to feed us candy but offers real nutrition instead...and we're just not used to it.

Believing this stuff, though it tastes good to the immediate senses...or gives the feeling that you won the race, when everyone in it is falling down and running into telephone poles, yet your family is cheering like mad and the Assyrian Star magazine waits to write you up as a GREAT ATHLETE..only makes us weaker...as it has. But it's just too damn tempting to continue being great Assyrians by saying we are...while our actual deeds, as Assyrians, are an embarrassment.

What kind of soldier would we produce if his mother and priest went to boot camp with him and insisted he not be awakened too early..that someone else carry his backpack..that a jeep drive him when his fellows run for miles...that he be provided with ear muffs because the gun is too loud..or that the target be moved close for him so he won't "feel bad" when his bullets go everywhere but into the target...and, of course, that his mother be allowed to cook for him since he's used to good Assyrian cooking? What kind of soldier would this produce?

Well, that's exactly the kind of "Assyrian" we've got.



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