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Weaker than compared to some other populations sure but it’s still pretty strong. Arabization is the weakest amongst North Africans especially the further out west in the Maghreb. The people for whom arabization is the weakest of all is Maltese, they constantly live in denial of their own language.
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There is a serious misunderstanding here to what the word Arab means.
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Maybe because they're Christian and they are historical enemies of Muslims... duh. Being of the same ethnicity doesn't make you brothers with someone. A lot of them talk to me about how Muslims slaughtered much of their famillies. I knew a Lebanese Orthodox and Greek Orthodox couple, trust me they're not that different.
It has nothing to do with "whiteness" lmao, Christianity in the Middle East is older than Islam itself.
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That is an genetical fact. Lebanese share much more DNA with Jewish people and other Levantine people than they share with Arabs from Saudi Arabia. The Arab conquers didn't assimilate to great extent with the local Lebanese population, just changed the local culture and religion.
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I've heard that the Lebanese see themselves as descendants of the Phoenicians and identify as such, rather than as Arabs.
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I have honestly never seen any Arab Christian, Lebanese or not, identify this way unironically in real life. People say they are descended from them, but this identity is not put above Arab... Arab is not a racial identity, it is not genetic, it is a shared cultural consciousness and sphere of influence. This 'Phoenicianism' was a nationalist identity people adopted because they did not want to be associated with Arab, but I see it as nonsensical... yes, many are similar genetically to ancient Phoenicians, but this identity has essentially been scrubbed away and is no longer relevant in the modern day. It is important to know your history, but I think to adopt this weird identity as a response to pan-Arabism has long fallen out of fashion. If someone does not want to call himself Arab, let him, but this is how he always will be seen so I see no point.
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