For those who don’t know Lebanon and never been there, Lebanon is a tiny country (like Corsica or one French department) with 3.5 million people as heterogeneous as a box of Haribo candies. Some of them are sticky, others too sweet and a lot are just fat and sugar, but all are succulent and we just like them (stop asking why).I didn’t mention that there is more Lebanese abroad than on the national territory! It seems that about 8 million Lebanese or from Lebanese origins are living in Europe, America and Africa.
Each Lebanese is different from the other but all of them share their love to their country, even if they don’t even think to get back mainly those established in foreign countries. All those Lebanese share also the weird habit to make every known person, on this earth, from Lebanese origins. So till now Salma Hayek, Shakira, Yamila Diaz, Keanu Reeves, Paul Anka, Wendie Maleck, Frank Zappa, … have all Lebanese origins ! And so what?
Ok, maybe those people have Lebanese origins but why it is so important to the Lebanese people to say it? And not just mention it but to tell everyone they know or they intersect. During my stay in Europe I lived with French, German, Spanish people and had friends from even more different cultures or origins and not even once someone told me that Mr. X or Mrs. Y have their nationality. They just don’t care, while for Lebanese it’s like if it was a plus to have Lebanese blood in Shakira’s veins.
Ok, maybe those people have Lebanese origins but why it is so important to the Lebanese people to say it? And not just mention it but to tell everyone they know or they intersect. During my stay in Europe I lived with French, German, Spanish people and had friends from even more different cultures or origins and not even once someone told me that Mr. X or Mrs. Y have their nationality. They just don’t care, while for Lebanese it’s like if it was a plus to have Lebanese blood in Shakira’s veins.
Is this behaviour just Made in Lebanon? Or just made in each country suffering for underestimation! In fact all the Lebanese have known and saw on television till now is war, war, and war (maybe we should give them numbers, LbW1, LbW2 …). By being proud of Salma whatever being half Lebanese or something Lebanese, is this the way telling everyone that we can do something else then war, or we can be something else than terrorists. In fact in Europe you feel like when Europeans get to know that you are Lebanese, the first thing they mention is war and terrorism. Maybe we want them to ask us about Salma and Shakira, instead of Hezbollah and the Israeli war!
Yeah God is Lebanese! But Nancy, Haifa and Yamila too so god bless Lebanon.
5 comments:
Haribo is german, did you know?
He, he himself, he is so fucking great, did you know? At the best... he is lebanese!!!
and so what!
intresting ...
actually u got a point, a certain deviation is involved, in music, in arts,....blablabla just to cover the politic aroma flowing over lebanon, it's a shame, a small country like that with lots of materials, is always a war arena for the big eastern/western fights, and ofcourse all the regional fights too :),
if i may say , they made it a shithole so yea God is from lebanon.
Thank you Alain, you are the greatest!!! The food was excellent but why, oh why did you have to leave the mosquitos in my room??? There are four of them...
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