In times of globalization and rapid spread of stories. People all around the world try to be very engaged in popular conflicts. People are protesting about conflicts that are ongoing on the other side of the world. They became specialists in Middle Eastern stories and Asian history. But people seem not to care about many other problems that occur around the world. That why I think western education fails. Of course we can't know about all the world's history during school but still we should have a better education to avoid searching for answers on TikTok or X.
In my previous job, a woman called Dinah worked with me. She told me that she was Egyptian, but she had a cross as a pendant. I never saw that cross; it was different from the regular Catholic cross. I thought she was muslim since all the Egyptians I met since then were muslins. She explained me that the cross was from her religion and she was Coptic. Her family had to exit Egypt because they were facing persecution.
Coptics are Christians, they descend directly from the ancient Egyptians, yes, those who built the pyramids. Earlier in the year 42 CE, Christianity arrived in Egypt and people started to abandon the old religion with multiple gods. So Christianity was the common religion there until the Arab expansion by the 7th century. Islam started to be spread and the Egyptian DNA started to mix with the Arab conquerors, but still, the remaining Copts who didn't convert are the closest to the ancient Egyptians' genetic profile. They are an ethnical minority nowaday,s with churches often burned and suffering segregation from local communities. Dinah's family was lucky to come to Canada; not many people have that luck.
Other people suffer around the world, recently we heard about the Druzes in Syriah, but whose of those Middle Eastern specialists heard from the Druzes? Until 2 years ago, here in my town only one Middle Eastern food restaurant.You know those with Shawarma, falafel, etc? The owners had these interesting mustaches, very hairy. They are Druzes. They are part of a group that comes from the Arab, and their religion was born from the Shia branch of Islam. But they aren't considered muslims. Different from many other groups they don't want their national state; they live well and want to serve the country where they are living. For that reason, you will find Druze even in the Israeli army. They are located in Syria, Lebanon and Israel nowadays. They are often targets of radical governments such as the current Syrian leadership since they follow a different religion.
Those are only two ethnical groups that are forgotten by history and media. The political stability in Syria isn't the best,and you also have a problem with the Kurdish people. So Syria still faces so much violence still, there is an estimation of around 100 thousand undocumented deaths in the last two years in the country related to the conflict. We also have the Yazidis, Armenians, and Mandaeans facing persecution in other parts of Asia. In addition wars that are still taking so many lives that people don't mention. Myanmar, Congo, Ethiopia, Yemen, and even Afghanistan, where the world thinks that the USA solved the Taliban problem there. Maybe we should stop and reflect all that we know is so little right now and try to learn more about the whole, not just some sparks coming from social media.
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Em tempos de globalização e rápida disseminação de histórias, pessoas em todo o mundo tentam se envolver bastante em conflitos populares. As pessoas estão protestando contra conflitos que ocorrem do outro lado do mundo. Elas se tornaram especialistas em histórias do Oriente Médio e da Ásia. Mas as pessoas parecem não se importar com muitos outros problemas que ocorrem ao redor do mundo. É por isso que acho que a educação ocidental falha. Claro que não podemos saber sobre toda a história do mundo durante a escola, mas ainda assim deveríamos ter uma educação melhor para evitar procurar respostas no TikTok ou no X.
No meu emprego anterior, uma mulher chamada Dinah trabalhava comigo. Ela me disse que era egípcia, mas tinha uma cruz como pingente. Nunca vi aquela cruz; era diferente da cruz católica comum. Pensei que ela fosse muçulmana, já que todos os egípcios que conheci desde então eram muçulmanos. Ela me explicou que a cruz era da religião dela e que ela era copta. Sua família teve que deixar o Egito porque estava enfrentando perseguição.
Os coptas são cristãos, descendem diretamente dos antigos egípcios, sim, daqueles que construíram as pirâmides. No início do ano 42 d.C., o cristianismo chegou ao Egito e as pessoas começaram a abandonar a antiga religião com múltiplos deuses. Assim, o cristianismo foi a religião comum lá até a expansão árabe no século VII. O islamismo começou a se espalhar e o DNA egípcio começou a se misturar com o dos conquistadores árabes, mas ainda assim, os coptas restantes que não se converteram são os mais próximos do perfil genético dos antigos egípcios. Eles são uma minoria étnica hoje em dia, com igrejas frequentemente incendiadas e sofrendo segregação das comunidades locais. A família de Dinah teve sorte de vir para o Canadá; poucas pessoas têm essa sorte.
Outras pessoas sofrem ao redor do mundo. Recentemente ouvimos falar dos drusos em Syriah, mas qual desses especialistas em Oriente Médio ouviu falar deles? Até dois anos atrás, aqui na minha cidade, havia apenas um restaurante de comida do Oriente Médio. Sabe aqueles com shawarma, falafel, etc.? Os donos tinham uns bigodes interessantes, bem peludos. Eles são drusos. Fazem parte de um grupo que vem do árabe, e sua religião nasceu do ramo xiita do islamismo. Mas eles não são considerados muçulmanos. Diferentemente de muitos outros grupos, eles não querem um estado nacional; vivem bem e querem servir o país onde vivem. Por essa razão, você encontrará drusos até no exército israelense. Eles estão localizados na Síria, no Líbano e em Israel atualmente. Eles são frequentemente alvos de governos radicais, como o atual líder sírio, por seguirem uma religião diferente.
Esses são apenas dois grupos étnicos esquecidos pela história e pela mídia. A estabilidade política na Síria não é das melhores, e você também tem um problema com o povo curdo. Portanto, a Síria ainda enfrenta tanta violência que há uma estimativa de cerca de 100 mil mortes sem documentos nos últimos dois anos no país relacionadas ao conflito. Também temos os yazidis, armênios e mandeístas enfrentando perseguição em outras partes da Ásia. Além disso, guerras que ainda ceifam tantas vidas que as pessoas nem mencionam. Mianmar, Congo, Etiópia, Iêmen e até mesmo o Afeganistão, onde o mundo acredita que os EUA resolveram o problema do Talibã. Talvez devêssemos parar e refletir: tudo o que sabemos é tão pouco agora e tentar aprender mais sobre o todo, não apenas sobre algumas faíscas vindas das mídias sociais.
I knew about the druzes, gladly they were helped by israel otherwise this would have been an other massacre by islamic terrorists of HTS (new syrian government) like the massacre they did on Alawites (an other minority ignored by the west because you know Assad is bad but an ex ISIS leader is good)
Copts gotten famous after many years ago they got publicly slaughtered by ISIS...
Syria is totally messed up! Putting Assad down it doesn't mean that it was fixed ! West love to put their finger in something and they leave the finger like "job is finished" but that isn't the case. Complicated, so many different people there. Until it ends this cycle of radicalism fighting for power there, things aren't going to be fixed. It is interesting how peopople forgot ISIS around here right? Probably if you ask around, people will say that it doesn't exist anymore. It was trendy once to be against ISIS, it isn't anymore, it looks like hehe
Yeah, no one talks about Isis anymore, like al quaeda, but they still exist... And same goes for boko haram... Assad could have been bad, but at least under him women could study and go around without the veil, no Christians were massacred, xmas was celebrated... Where the west touch it becomes a mess, look also Libya, at least there's haftar on the est or that would be an other chaos
The West doesn't understand how the this part of the world works... lol
Yep, a dictator is often the best solution and causes less deaths
This post made me curious to learn more about the Coptic and Druze communities. Thank you for explaining their history so clearly.
It is important to learn about them, sometimes we focus a lot in our regional problems, if we want to learn something we need to focus on that
Essas histórias já estão tão antigas e tão mudadas que hoje em dia a gente nem consegue ter uma ideia de quem pode estar certo ou errado. Complicado, acho que as pessoas poderiam se esforçar mais para tentar conversar e resolver com sinceridade seus problemas e não apenas contar a história onde elas são sempre os heróis ou vencedoras.
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The Taliban still creates problems there as it never ended but I heard two days ago that war in Gaza is over , trump announced it but let's see for how much time this war is stopped
Trump helped for sure for the actual moment but this war is very complex and difficult to end. But the engagement that it was created was out of the mind, how midia could manipulate that and make people forget about other conflicts that probably are lasting longer and killing more people.
It's a skill to manipulate everything for themselves and trying to forget about one thing for a short period of time.....
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