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Modern day Assyrians - all talk no action??

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2. RE: Modern day Assyrians- all talk no action??

Nov-23-2000 at 10:55 PM (UTC+3 Nineveh, Assyria)

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Dear Assyrian friends,

I am an assyrian living in Sydney who sympathises with your feelings and frustrations that you have posted in these messages - i have for a while been thinking of what i could do to help get the word out of how bad the situation is - because quite honestly i don't think that young people growing up in western countries actually know.

I have for quite some time stopped mixing much with assyrians - because quite frankly their outdated views about life depress me - it's very hard for a young person to go through life with two very opposing views about how they should live their life. Incidently i'm not that young - i'm now in my early 30's but i know how i felt when i was 21 and thought i had to get married just to start enjoying life only to realise this what not a smart thing to do.

When i have attended functions or read, listened or viewed anything - i have actually been insulted by the lack of thought that goes into communication. Many young people are alienated by the fact that thier assyrain language is lost and /or is not strong - so rather than using simple language to communicate to everyone equally - many use intellectual eliteism to create another barrier amongst people who know the language well and those that dont.

I would like to tell a story primarily using images and music and film to counteract this.I have been investigating doing a documentry about assyrians and particularly their past and current political hardships.

I see my role as essentially a story teller -but i would appreciate help from anyone who can research and translate the language - or anyone with ideas or a drive to help get the message out to young people - plse contact me. Even if you are interested in just giving me your opinion on the subject - please email me - i would also love to meet anyone in Sydney who wants to chat about it, thanks Jacki.

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Assyria \ã-'sir-é-ä\ n (1998)   1:  an ancient empire of Ashur   2:  a democratic state in Bet-Nahren, Assyria (northern Iraq, northwestern Iran, southeastern Turkey and eastern Syria.)   3:  a democratic state that fosters the social and political rights to all of its inhabitants irrespective of their religion, race, or gender   4:  a democratic state that believes in the freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture in faithfulness to the principles of the United Nations Charter — Atour synonym

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Assyrian \ã-'sir-é-an\ adj or n (1998)   1:  descendants of the ancient empire of Ashur   2:  the Assyrians, although representing but one single nation as the direct heirs of the ancient Assyrian Empire, are now doctrinally divided, inter sese, into five principle ecclesiastically designated religious sects with their corresponding hierarchies and distinct church governments, namely, Church of the East, Chaldean, Maronite, Syriac Orthodox and Syriac Catholic.  These formal divisions had their origin in the 5th century of the Christian Era.  No one can coherently understand the Assyrians as a whole until he can distinguish that which is religion or church from that which is nation -- a matter which is particularly difficult for the people from the western world to understand; for in the East, by force of circumstances beyond their control, religion has been made, from time immemorial, virtually into a criterion of nationality.   3:  the Assyrians have been referred to as Aramaean, Aramaye, Ashuraya, Ashureen, Ashuri, Ashuroyo, Assyrio-Chaldean, Aturaya, Chaldean, Chaldo, ChaldoAssyrian, ChaldoAssyrio, Jacobite, Kaldany, Kaldu, Kasdu, Malabar, Maronite, Maronaya, Nestorian, Nestornaye, Oromoye, Suraya, Syriac, Syrian, Syriani, Suryoye, Suryoyo and Telkeffee. — Assyrianism verb

Aramaic \ar-é-'máik\ n (1998)   1:  a Semitic language which became the lingua franca of the Middle East during the ancient Assyrian empire.   2:  has been referred to as Neo-Aramaic, Neo-Syriac, Classical Syriac, Syriac, Suryoyo, Swadaya and Turoyo.

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