The level of discussion between me and you is going to be your sect and my sect? Can't one discuss objectively? It's not like you or I chose our sects.
of course we can discuss objectively, you and me as individuals but I mentioned "your sect and crusader members in this forum" to reference that the issue
of Constantinople was raised by them so many times and in previous years too. I can discuss openly and with logic, no problem.
Yes, unfortunately due to the Lebanese sectarian political system, you can't choose your sect but you can choose which religion to follow no problem.
Thank you for confirming that the Lebanese are a mixture of people that settled and passed through this land.
And thank you for also confirming that we do NOT speak Arabic, we speak Lebanese, a mixture of languages that includes Arabic as well as other languages.
No, I confirm the first one, not the second one .. I told you nowhere in the world this exists but in Lebanon, you can't say this is Lebanese ... because a French will pop up and tell you: "hey, this word is french !! it is mine !! " ... one time I was working in Jal el deeb, we had a french guy who knew the owner, he came to my workplace and said "bonjour tous le monde" and the guy next to me, charbel told him: "bonjouren" then the french guy said: "ca veut dire quoi "bonjouren" ?" ... I told him: "c'est la version Libanaise qui veut dire "deux bonjour" and then he replied: "bonjouren, ah non c'est pas du Francais correcte" <=== how humiliating is that ? it happened I didn't make that up
I care less about how our surrounding countries behave, I care about facts and the facts as stated above support my position for identifying myself as Lebanese and only as Lebanese.
you don't care about your surrounding neighboring countries who happen to have the same characteristics and historical facts are your country but you're asking me to fetsh for Barzil and Peru who are thousands of miles away, overseas ?
You are forced to learn more than one language due to globalization in trade and business. The world became smaller thanks to the internet. Sectarian life has nothing to do with it. Even Germany and Russia teach second languages in their schools, they are not islands in this world. No country is an island (obviously I am not speaking in a geographic sense here)
you said it yourself (a second Language) rarely spoken only on business occasions and trust me not perfectly spoken like we kill ourselves to do it in Lebanon (preserving the American or british accent too ), they just don't care !! they don't need it ... 1 out of 10 employees speak it .. it is enough for them to send this one person to promote their business abroad in a foreign country.
However according to your logic, in Lebanon we don't use English as a second language, we are forced to learn it perfectly and use it even in the workplace, even though all of us are Lebanese and can speak Arabic and understand each others very well. so why are we forced to use a language that is not ours in the first place ?
That's fine if you're not interested, what counts is you understood my justification above.
The ME is only important politically due to the Israeli state, all is done in order to ensure their survival in this region.
The other aspect is Oil, once oil is no longer as important (in less than 100 years)...well you know the rest.
For now, the "only important politically" whether you like it or not, the ME is making the globalized world economy spin, without its oil and gas, endless conflict, arms deals and israel ... the rest of the world is not a beautiful place as we envy ... remember in previous post, I called it the "Fu#$#ing middle east" ... yes we are sacrificing ourselves for the rest of the world happy life which you are dying to belong too but they consider you an expandable animal !!
keep living in denial bravo ..