@itsinthetoybox هو لك حق من ناحية رغبة التبري عن الاسلام أو على الأقل الاسلام مثل ما هو شائع في العالم العربي هو أحد أسباب التخلي عن العروبة, وفعلا ما توحدو العرب الا مع الدولة الراشدية, لكن الدين الاسلامي مرجع أقوى بكثير من ما كانة في أيام أوسع نفوذ للعروبيين, فأنا أعتقد هو جاي من يأس بالهويتين
this is also the reason behind the phoenician/canaanite/babylonian larp: arabic culture has such low prestige, people from populations who spoke arabic prior to the rise of islam will try to claim purely their pre-arab identity, which hasnt existed in +1000 years
the cultural output of the arab world is so catastrophically poor that you will meet arabs, not in the diaspora but from the arab world, (obviously this is confined mainly to the educated parts of society) who mainly speak english, due to how strong anglo cultural capital is
@TsunderePocky it's a sign of introspection which is high IQ it's just that people with no internal monologue (soul) want to gaslight you into thinking otherwise
because countries that care about their land area tend not to have things worth bragging about
it isn't the 18th century anymore, arable land doesnt matter like it used to
america, canada, and china are each also the size of continents, but have much better things to brag about
I’m trying to come up with an american equivalent to the Goianistão and I’m realizing that I can’t. Imagine a place with a concentration of wealth, power and misanthropy of the Bay Area; now imagine it had the literacy rates of West Virginia and the racial politics of Mississippi. And now imagine its newfound wealth results in a massive influx of a music genre I can only describe as “Taylor Swift for men”.
another indicator also, is codeswitching, it's not uncommon at all for educated arabs to switch to english to express a word or idea that otherwise isnt really talked about openly either in media or in conversation in arabic