what is ur opnion about arab personality ?
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I've written a great deal about the dangers of Islam lately, but you must understand, there is a great deal of misunderstanding about the Middle-east due to differences that most Westerners don't even consider:\n1) When most Westerners speak, they look at the speaker when listening, but the speaker looks away most of the time.\nFor many Middle-eastern cultures it is the other way around, looking when speaking, and looking away when listening.  Here's the funny part: It makes Westerners look like they are evasive and deceitful when the speak and too bold when they listen.  Westerners often think Middle-eastern people to be careless listeners and to be too forceful when talking, all due to differences in body language!\n2) The personal space of many Middle-eastern people is much smaller, and conversations often occur at a close enough distance to make most Westerners very uncomfortable.  Middle-eastern people often find Westerners suspicious and distant.\n3) In the Middle-east, the left hand is considered private and is not used to touch others often, as it is the hand used for cleaning oneself.  The right hand is used for eating and touching.  Westerners are very careless by Middle-eastern standards and touch everything with either hand, while some Middle-easterners seem hesitant to touch or awkward due to switching hands to do something.\n4) My mother used to travel extensively with her father, an oil executive, to the Middle-east, and became Sufi herself, as did her mother.  She commented often about how people would respond with "it broke itself" rather than "it broke".  They would leave cars by the side of the road, dispose of clocks that ran down, not because they didn't know it could be repaired, but because there was no real acceptance of trying to fix things that have 'broken themselves'.\n5) Western women are careless, provocative, and flaunt themselves constantly, proving they are whores to Middle-eastern morals.  Western women who then turn around and pretend they aren't are even lower.  The poor Western women are totally perplexed when the clothing, manners, and words that we accept in a free society and still respect the rights of the woman involved suddenly results in 'undeserved abuse'!  It's even worse if in their countries!\n6) Much of the flowery speech so wildly exaggerated by Western films of how Middle-easterners speak to each other is based on what to them is proper courtesy.  Imagine stepping back in time a century or two and see what effect YOUR speech would have on U.S. citizens!  No, they see us as rude and often get even more polite, while at the same time determining how best to be done with you, leaving Westerners even more confused when they suddenly find themselves politely being shown the door!  Westerners are used to rudeness as a sign that they have made a mistake, and a chance to fix it.\n7) Do I really need to go on?  Their values and personalities are quite reasonable for their culture and beliefs, but mixed with ours, it's dynomite waiting to explode.\n\nNone of this excuses the misunderstandings for either group, and sometimes it comes down to "us or them", but it never hurts to be aware of these things.  I strongly suggest people read the Koran, not just for cultural understanding (always useful), but to recognize the dangers that Islam poses to the West until it goes through the reformation those in the know are trying to start, by force, if necessary.\n\nOh, I think a few things about their personality could be learned from.  But I'm a U.S. citizen and patriot.  Stand strong, folks, but understand what you are facing.  One day they'll be some of our best allies, just like Japan.
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We have some Arabic friends and they are nice people.\nThey don't approve of the radical elements.
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i view them generally as being hard working and good with technology. (a stereotype i know, but i think there is some truth to it.) also they seem to be good fathers and very hospitable. but these are mostly cultural things, i try to reserve judging the individual until i know them. also i think when making a broad cultural judgment, you have to look at other factors: for instance are they Hindu, Muslim, Christian or another religion?
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All right I'll try. A Persian would be a citizen of the perian empire (now defunct), which was centered on the Iranian plateau though it did strech at one point from Libya to India. Today a persian is normally considered an Iranian. \n\nAn arab(I know this cheap)\nEthnic identity: someone who considers him or herself to be an Arab (regardless of racial or ethnic origin) and is recognized as such by others. \nLinguistic: someone whose first language is Arabic (including any of its varieties); this definition covers more than 250 million people. Arabic belongs to the Semitic family of languages. \nGenealogical: someone who can trace his or her ancestry back to the original inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula. \nPolitical: someone who is a resident or citizen of a country where Arabic is an official or national language, or is a member of the Arab League or is part of the wider Arab world; this definition would cover more than 300 million people, but it is rather simplistic and rigid in that it excludes the entire Diaspora but includes indigenous or migrant minorities. \n\n A Jew or Hebrew may live in Israel though many people identify themselves as being jewish without having ever seen it. \n(cut and paste ur my only friend)\nJudaism guides its adherents in both practice and belief, and has been called not only a religion, but also a "way of life," which has made drawing a clear distinction between Judaism, Jewish culture, and Jewish nationality rather difficult. In many times and places, such as in the ancient Hellenic world, in Europe before and after the Enlightenment (see Haskalah), and in contemporary United States and Israel, cultural phenomena have developed that are in some sense characteristically Jewish without being at all specifically religious. Some factors in this come from within Judaism, others from the interaction of Jews with others around them, others from the inner social and cultural dynamics of the community, as opposed to religion itself.\n\nBedouins are a nomadic desert people who live in north africa and the middle east\n\nA Kurd is a person living mainly in the northern area of Iraq, Iran, and Syria. who are normally muslim\n\nA Turk is a Turkish citizen\n\nA Druze ... I'm not really sure I think it an Islamic sect\n\nBerbers... no clue sorry, better luck next time
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I dont think so but whats the point?\nOk I got you now...I knew they were not arabs and as I have an Iranian online friend I know how nice and open minded they are.
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Rania, I don't know exactly what is your point.\nHowever, I don't think it is the lifestyle that is the problem of Arab Christians, but it could be the culture.\nAs for lifestyle, there is no difference between Muslims and Christians living in Arab speaking states. Lifestyle is determined by class which differs from a place to place.
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The Arabs are good and deeply loyal to their principles of fanaticism.  It is very hard to crack into the people and their belief.
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I'm an American living in Jordan, and I actually know quite a few Iraqis. I find that most of them really actually like americans, but think that George Bush is crazy. Most arabs ar really good about distinguishing people from their governments, i.e. we dont get blamed for what our government has done.
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cuz they r arabz... n we arabs rok..... yea... lol... 3arbz all da way dude!\npeace out:)
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Why not? They're people just like anyone else. I have a few arab friends and a lot of islamic friends. They're pretty cool.
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every intellectual when come to about Prophet Muhammad(pbuh) appreciat his personality, He was indeed the great man, unfortunatly the anti-islamics have  corssed their limits in spreading false propaganda about our prophet and i dont know whom they are serving,and now its veyr obvious whts their motive behind but  still they couldnt stop peoples from converting to islam........ ofcourse muslims are least bothered by all those false stories because we know who is our prophet and wht was his personality.  God bless you sister, Good work mashAllah.
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In my opinion the answer is NO. But you better be careful saying anything about the muslims because it would seem that  yahoo dosen't like  it when you point out the obvious shortcomings of this group of people. I answered a question asking if anyone had ever heard an Arabic song? I had and on public t.v. but yahoo repremanded me for saying that I had because the song was very ...not nice..and sung by a little kindergarden girl. So be careful.
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I was born in nothern Iraq and nobody at my school laughs at me or hates me, in fact i'm probably the funniest guy at my school. But yeah most people just think that if you are middle eastern then you are a terrorist. ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE!!!
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Here you go! Enjoy!\n\nwww.gayarab.org/home.htm\nwww.kelma.org/arab_gay/arab_gay.php\nwww.al-bab.com/arab/background/gay.htm
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yes, i am an arab christian. i agree with u, we also use allah. some of my friends are muslims and we all agree that we beleive in the same god.
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Only and Only mixing more and more with internation people will make u understand and ease the tension the world is having for a quite long time now.I am a bangladeshi and been to australia and stayed there for 7 years-and that really made me understand why the Australian authority always rejects south east asia's peoples application to allow them to stay in their country---its not xenophobia(fear of aliens) as the south east media would like to potray about the mentality of australian people.I am not gonna elaborate on that,but I know now that most australian people are one the most honest,decent,fun loving,kind hearted nation on earth.I met the british,the greeks and a lot of other people to understand that they started to hate the muslims or arabs or asians only after the media started this dirty game of potraying foreigners(from arab and asia)as evils.If u are an american,u r now potrayed as evil as well in the middle eastern too.But,to be very honest-if u could go pass the media mayhem and say hello to an young bangladeshi,you are definitely going to end up being freinds.....every human being has the same emotions....but he or she is right now a bit of hesitant because of the media.Remember one thing,If u are looking at an animal and feel scared,it is also feeling the same about you.And this rule is applicabale to human beings too.....bye for now.Have a truly nice life full with friends everywhere in the globe unlike the politicians.
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i am a proud arab-american muslim...(born in ohio, mom n dad from syria n i vist syria every summer) fyi not all arabz live in middle eazt dou... i do agree w/ da 2 b4 me.. i feel like i am discriminated and made fun of alot... n my teach fails me 4 no reason.. (gives me 0z wen i wuz 1 of da only 1z who did dier hw rite)n dont get respect... but datz life; n life goes on... n people(cuz of da media n bush) also think dat all muslimz n arabz (not all arabz r muzlimz) r terroristz wen da truth iz dat .000000000000000000000001% of all muslims r terroristz... u dont find people on da newz say an orthadox jew.. or a catholic commited suicide bombing; do u? no another thing iz dat doz terrorizt dont hav a religon... dey change da religonz rulez.. (to sut  dem n deir selfish wayz)\nd'rutha c da glass half full dan empty... =P \nWish da world peace yall (n repect 4 every1)\npeace out:)