I was looking for an Arab-American entrepreneur who started a business with nothing. It is staggering how many of America's most successful Arab-Americans are Lebanese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arab_Americans#Business …
I haven't researched it much but from my experience with Lebanese people, it's totally believable that they're very very very very different from Saudis, for example. Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, West Syria - that whole region feels very non-Arab to me.
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I’ve never been there but that was a core Roman area for a long time. The Arab conquests were relatively “recent” and aren’t thought to have involved huge populations of settlers who replaced all the people living there before, so why would everyone have a lot of Arab ancestry?
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Agreed. I think it's just a touchy topic. You have the crusades, you have the conflict, and you have a very successful minority which speaks Arabic that Arabs would like to claim for themselves.
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