It’s simple to explain

Since I have been back, I have been asked several questions related to the Arab Spring, USA, Israel, etc via email. The chaos in the middle east has really popularized the word “Arab.” I don’t really care what you think of Arabs if you are or not one. Arabs are just a culture with a language. Not everyone of them is the same.

So, let me explain to you what an Arab really is. You see, us Arabs are culturally reserved and justify everything with old conservative traditions mixed with religion. But you know, we do like all sort of people, especially other Arabs. Almost everyone in our neighbouring area is our cousin of some sort. So if you see us arguing with someone, it is usually someone we know and related to us. We like to discuss world politics and problems, but we don’t really get out of our comfort zone and do something totally different, but use violence instead.

We go to work, raise the kids, and force them to be doctors or engineers if they are a boy. If it’s a girl, then she is luckier, she has to still be educated and be married at 21, but before then is way better. Arab girls my age usually have teenagers by now.

Really, Arabs are cool. They are just misunderstood because they are so passionate about the little things that really have no significant value, but they are important to them. We like to be loud in public and we are the ones that say Bebsi and not Pepsi. We have heavy accents and we translate things in our head purely from Arabic to English without realizing that no one is understanding us and think we are demented.

We like being Arabs! 80%+ of us are Muslims and the Quran is written in the language that we speak and write. We have rich culture and history and we are happy how we turned out. We live our lives in peace and only care who is getting married next, who graduated first, and if the grandkids are fed and raised properly. We are just like any other culture.

We love who we are. Really. But it is so funny because the Arab world occupies over 13,000,000 square kilometres of land mass and we still live in diaspora and leave our homelands. We just like to be all over the place and never satisfied sometimes.

I could say more, but I will get hate mail right now. Oh well. I like being an Arab. It’s in my blood and no matter how much you try to change your self, no matter where you live, you cannot change or deny being one. It’s awesome!

Peace!

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