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the nationality that i am. a race of super s-xy middle easterns that are all some how related that know everyone as cousins.
-ssyrian:whatup cousin!!!111
me: dude i dont even know you, but your still probably my cousin so sup!
a lot of -ssyrians are too proud of their roots, so they love proving that chaldeans are really -ssyrians.

let me say, if you are chaldean, more than likely, you are historically catholic. the name came from the catholic church back in the 15th century to break ties chaldeans (babylonians at the time) from their previous ties ident-ties to other groups. chaldeans maintain full communion with the pope in rome today.

but the -ssyrian population is not constrained by the catholic religion. there are many different religious affiliations with the -ssyrian ident-ty, such as the -ssyrian church of the east, -ssyrian evangelical church, and -ssyrian pentecostal church, to name a few.

-ssyrian catholics and chaldean catholics are ancient people, and chaldeans, syriacs, and -ssyrians came from one people and then split off into 3 groups, but both groups have evolved, so for anyone to say we are the same people are extremely ignorant.

but let’s say we are all -ssyrian. taking this information from the -ssyrian international news agency (aina), 45% of -ssyrians are chaldeans (i.e. the majority). the -ssyrian ident-ty proponents want a majority to change their name?

finally, as a little anecdote, as my uncle/boss was reading the article (he is around 38 years old), he asked me “what is an -ssyrian?” if that doesn’t clearly ill-strate to you why we shoud not change our name, then i don’t know what will. if a man does not even know what an -ssyrian is, how can we forge through the trenches and call him an -ssyrian, something he knows nothing about?

chaldeans can unite with -ssyrians not through name change; it is completely unnecessary and irrelevant. when you say “save christians of iraq” that encomp-sses all christians, not just chaldeans, -ssyrians, and syriacs. “-ssyrian” is not a great unifier. whoever decided to start this whole -ssyrian campaign is an idiot. it is offensive, unintelligent, and based on hubris. it is the sole reason that there is a division today. i’m happy that chaldeans aren’t laying down and taking everything they are being spoon fed for face value. i am one of those thousands upon thousands of chaldeans.

chaldeans seperating from -ssyrians is older from the americans seperating from the english. does that make americans truly english? no.

– h.s.
ashur (-ssyrian): you’re all -ssyrian! we must save the -ssyrian name so we can get our land and save our people!

brando (syriac): okay, let’s call ourselves syrian and get the land

sargon (-ssyrian): never!

yousif (chaldean): yeah, you tell ’em, brando!
the -ssyrians were semitic people living in the northern reaches of mesopotamia; they have a long history in the area, but for most of that history they are subjugated to the more powerful kingdoms and peoples to the south. under the monarch, shamshi-adad, the -ssyrians attempted to build their own empire, but hammurabi soon crushed the attempt and the -ssyrians disappear from the historical stage. eventually the semitic peoples living in northern mesopotamia were invaded by another asiatic people, the hurrians, who migrated into the area and began to build an empire of their own. but the hurrian dream of empire was soon swallowed up in the dramatic growth of the hitt-te empire, and the young hurrian nation was swamped. after centuries of attempts at independence, the -ssyrians finally had an independent state of their own since the hitt-tes did not annex -ssyrian cities. for the next several hundred years, the balance of power would shift from the north to the south.

beginning with the monarch, tukulti-ninurta (1235-1198 bc), -ssyria began its first conquests, in this case the conquest of babylon. the -ssyrian dream of empire began with the monarch, tiglat-pileser (1116-1090), who extended -ssyrian dominance to syria and armenia. but the greatest period of conquest occurred between 883 and 824, under the monarchies of ashurn-z-rpal ii (883-859 bc) and shalmeneser iii (858-824 bc), who conquered all of syria and palestine, all of armenia, and, the prize of prizes, babylon and southern mesopotamia. the -ssyrian conquerors invented a new policy towards the conquered: in order to prevent nationalist revolts by the conquered people, the -ssyrians would force the people they conquered to migrate in large numbers to other areas of the empire. besides guaranteeing the security of an empire built off of conquered people of different cultures and languages, these m-ss deportations of the populations in the middle east, mesopotamia, and armenia, turned the region into a melting pot of diverse cultures, religions, and languages. whereas there would be little cultural contact between the conquered and the conquerors in early mesopotamian history, under the -ssyrians the entire area became a vast experiment in cultural mixing. it was the -ssyrian monarch, sargon ii (721-705 bc), who first forcefully relocated hebrews after the conquest of israel, the northern kingdom of the hebrews. although this was a comparatively mild deportation and perfectly in line with -ssyrian practice, it marks the historical beginning of the jewish diaspora. this chapter in the jewish diaspora, however, never has been really written, for the hebrews deported from israel seem to have blended in with -ssyrian society and, by the time nebuchadnezzar ii conquers judah (587 bc), the southern kingdom of the hebrews, the israelites deported by sargon ii have disappeared nameless and faceless into the sands of northern mesopotamia.

the monarchs of -ssyria, who hated babylon with a p-ssion since it constantly contemplated independence and sedition, destroyed that city and set up their capital in nineveh. later, however, feeling that the babylonian god, marduk, was angry at them, they rebuilt the city and returned the idol of marduk to a temple in babylon. the last great monarch of -ssyria was ashurbanipal (668-626 bc), who not only extended the empire, but also began a project of -ssembling a library of tablets of all the literature of mesopotamia. thirty thousand tablets still remain of ashurbanipal’s great library in the city of nineveh; these tablets are our single greatest source of knowledge of mesopotamian culture, myth, and literature.

after ashurbanipal, the great -ssyrian empire began to crumble; the greatest pressure on the empire came from their old and bitter enemies, the babylonians. aided by another semitic people, the medes, the babylonians led by nabopol-ssar eventually conquered the -ssyrian capital of nineveh and burned it to the ground, ending forever -ssyrian dominance in the region.
the -ssyrians were a great empire.
indigenous christian people of the middle east, as well as founders of the empires of -ssyria and babylonia. commonly referenced in the bible, -ssyrians created one of the most historically organized systems of government and society. -ssyrians were the first civilization to establish a system of common laws, a library system, and are recognized as inventors of the wheel. throughout history, -ssyrians have been subjected to m-ssive genocide. there are currently only 3.3 million -ssyrians living today, with about half the global -ssyrian population living in iraq. locations with the largest concentrations of -ssyrians in the united states, which is the home to about 400,000 -ssyrians, are the chicago, il area with about 70,000 -ssyrians, and the modesto, ca area with about 20,000 -ssyrians. also see chaldeans, or catholic -ssyrians.
with the coming of christ, -ssyrians were one of the first people who accepted christianity.
-beautiful & s-xy people

-originally from iraq

-about 400,000 living in chicago itself & the suburbs of chicago (skokie, roselle, des plaines, ext)

-hard working people

-mostly rich as f-ck

-the women are very beautiful

-the men are so gorgeous

-they don’t give a sh-t about anything expect the important things in life: family (friends are already considered family) and prosperity

-they own chicago

-they all have to take care of themselves (nice hair, brand-name clothing, and nice body)

-thee prettiest people ever known to man

-if you mess with an -ssyrian, they’ll call up their cousins&/friends to come beat your -ss up (so don’t talk sh-t about any of them)

-their food is fantastic

-they can be very kind and funny, or very ignorant, stubborn, strict (as any group can be)

-they love being -ssyrian
“ay yo bro, them -ssyrians own chi-town!”.
racially, -ssyrians — like most middle eastern people — are cl-ssified as caucasian.

the -ssyrians look quite similar to southern europeans (greeks, italians, maltese, etc) and also persian people. so they are mediterranean.

most -ssyrians are fair-skinned. though, there are lots that are olive and dark-skinned. mediterranean
lighter -ssyrians are found in northern iraq/turkey.

darker ones are found in the south of iraq.
-ssyrians are inhabitants of the ancient empire -ssyria. they are not chaldeans. but are very close, just different dialects. -ssyrians are beautiful, happy people. they are very s-xy and attracting, especially the first and second generations in the usa. most -ssyrians are christians.
did you see that -ssyrian?

oh my, he is s-xy!

i know, they look a lot like albanians!

true dat’!

-ssyrian -ssyrian

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