riza o shourba said:
First off, can someone confirm this and tell me details? Cheers!
When I was in Sweden not too long ago, I was told by one of the members of the youth club there that the "Syrianska" people (Arameans) had gathered together all their organizations into a conference. The sole purpose?
HOW TO HALT/STOP/DESTROY THE RISING ASSYRIANISM IN SWEDEN.
So you see, we can bicker and argue all we want about anything, but we have some other serious issues at hand too across the globe. We have our Mar Dinkha/Mar Bawai argument as well as our Assyrian/Chaldean/ChaldoAssyrian matters and they got similiar and more disheartening matters like the oromoyeh!
Again, if you're from Sweden and know more, please share. Cheers!
I'm an Assyrian from Sweden. Well, yes and no. The good news is, that many Syriacs in Sweden, are opening their eyes. Some of them have actually bothered to check up facts, and realised, that they are indeed, Assyrians.
However, the narrow-minded Syriacs, are still claiming that they are Aramaeans (they're not) and they are still fighting over it. In S?dert?lje, where most Assyrians live, a lot of the Assyrians there who identify as "Suryoyo Oromoyo," have basically ruined our chances of setting up another Seyfo monument. They refused to have Assyrian attached on it. It's all about their stupid pride.
The irony is, they refuse to realise that Suryoyo means Assurayu. Somehow, they have managed to brainwash themselves into believing that Suryoyo means Oromoyo. Screw that. We are Suryoyo Othuroyo!
And no one likes these Syrianer. Well, perhaps that's an exaggeration, but a lot of Swedes, in particular in S?dert?lje, are quite irritated and fed up at them. These Syrianer are only embarrassing us, with crime, asshole behaviour, etcetera.
Shan "the man" Atci, a Kurdish stand up comedian in Sweden, ridiculing Syrianer and their moron behaviour:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iffLdFBonnA
Say what you want about Kurds, but that was spot on. He's basically making fun out of them for how stupid they are, when picking fights with people over stupid ****. Here's a real situation example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83qOawf6VTw
They actually film quarrels they start with people and spread them on the internet. Idiots.
You know, they're such an embarrassment to our Assyrian nation. We are the same people though, and we're all Suraya/Suroyo. We Assyrians are trying, patiently to explain to them, that we are the same people, and that we should stop fighting and unite our people as Assyrians. But they refuse to listen and they have this weird obsession with Aram, son of Noah of the Bible. They are also very anti-Assyrian, many of them. Can you imagine that? Self-loathing Assyrians. However, many of them are also on good terms with Assyrians.
Oh and by the way, in case you don't know, 90% of all Assyrians in Sweden, belong to the Syriac Orthodox Church. It's just that in Sweden, the Aramaeanism mental disease has infected many Suryoye in the Syriac Orthodox Church. But on the other hand, you'll find some of the most nationalistic Assyrians in the Syriac Orthodox Church in Sweden.
So it's not a case where the Assyrians are only members of the Church of the East, but in this case, it's Assyrians from the same Church fighting with each other over a damn ethnic name.
Oh and by the way:
http://www.arameiska.se/Aram_Baryamo/Historia/Assyriens-undergang.htm
They're spreading lies and propaganda of how the Assyrians were "wiped out." Can you imagine that? They discard their own heritage because of some weird obsession with this obscure Aram-dude.
Sometimes, I wish our forefathers never assimilated Aramaeans into the Assyrian empire. We wouldn't speak a dialect of Aramaic today and we wouldn't have this problem.