Is it self-hate that I don’t identify as an Arab?

[Rainn]

Arabs are honorable people who value their values. Being Muslim isn't something to be ashamed of.

Yes, of course but I am a Catholic Christian.

[Incal]

Self-hate is an artificial term (as many other "words" today) introduced by the yanks to keep their minorities backward and parasitic. I would discourage anyone to use that word, and hence, to keep persisiting in error.

[Mixdguy17]

Being Arabic is a stupid umbrella term. You're Lebanese, that's what you are, that's what you can be proud of, it's your ethnicity. You don't need to claim to be Arab.

This, best response yet Op.

[Tutankhamun]

Arab isn't only an ethnicity but for the most part also a culture and language. Sudanese are Arabs too. Lebanese are culturally arabized.



Because your threads just reek of OWD and cope.

Nobody in America would think of your people as white. Although, US government uses a very broad definition of white for census purposes. I believe this originated with certain ethnic groups, such as Lebanese and Syrian Christians in the early 20th century lobbying to be categorised as white.

But you aren't socially considered white along with Muslim Arabs in America.

Spoiler!

You are only 'white' in Latin America lel.

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I personally don't care what you identify as, but you ain't white.

Dude, you put race in all, looks like a mental retard.

[Tutankhamun]

I don’t think it is self-hate that me and the other Maronites usually do not identify as an Arab. Because Islam has been introduced to the region by Arabians and therefore Arab identity is mostly associated with Islam. So, what do you think? Is it self-hate that I don’t identify as an Arab?

Lebanese generally do not like to identify with their Phoenician heritage?

[Rainn]

Lebanese generally do not like to identify with their Phoenician heritage?

We do like to identify with our Phoenician heritage. To be clearer, we are mostly proud of our Phoenician heritage but if if a Lebanese person is asked "what is your ethnicity or where are your originally from?" then the asker would probably be confused when he or she gets the "Phoenician" answer. It is because Phoenicians had lived centuries before, at least in a common sense.

[lustermoo]

It’s nothing different than a North African identifying as amazigh.

[Aldaris]

Nope. Having to ask however.. :-)

[Faklon]

Not necessarily self-hate but you neither transform the Arab\Levantine identity for it to mean anything else than muslim.

John of Damascus, celebrated by all Christian churches, was an Arab and he's portrayed as an Arab,

[Faklon]

Saints Cosmas and Damian would be perceived as Jihadists by (ignorant) Westerners



Later, Renaissance Christianity transformed them into this



Roman/Byzantine-centric