Issues you may need to discuss with your MENA SO

[Sofiyya 1,687]

I see alot of Portuguese on another board . . .

[Fandango 1,439]

Well, one difference between you and I is that I wouldn't be a transplant. My great-grandfather came here after losing his home to Israel. He brought his children with him. None of us have stayed away, so I'm not only about practice, cooking and looking. Like I said before, Europeans and Arabs, not interchangable. You talk about leaving your past, we talk about not leaving it.

I am American, just as you are.

The reasons for emigrating here are superfluous....and if you want to say you're a Palestinian before you're an American, that would technically be incorrect. And I think that was the initial point of WOM and her hubby...

And if you don't consider yourself an American, perhaps your immigration process is going the wrong way

[Reynaldo 0]

By the way, do you speak Arabic at all ? You haven't responded to a word my husband wrote (except the one word I translated.) He is becoming suspicious.

I do speak arabic and I would not have responded to either of those posts. Regardless of whether she speaks arabic or not, that doesn't mean she doesn't know what she is talking about. Secondly, what did you husband write that had anything to do with the situation of Palestine? All I saw was an attempt to shame her, cut her down, and get under her skin.

If SZSZ doesn't understand arabic that that would be the only thing your husband could have possibly proved with those statements. I think asking your husband to come on VJ and cut someone down in Arabic is a pretty low thing to do. Maybe you thought no one else would understand, but its very easy for most to just ask their SO to translate.

JP, I agree with you.

That was just low and alienating...

I see alot of Portuguese on another board . . .

You mean, on the Latin America and Caribean board?

ETA: And portuguese is like spanish. We don't even take it too seriously...

Edited January 8, 2007 by Reynaldo

[Sofiyya 1,687]

By the way, do you speak Arabic at all ? You haven't responded to a word my husband wrote (except the one word I translated.) He is becoming suspicious.

I do speak arabic and I would not have responded to either of those posts. Regardless of whether she speaks arabic or not, that doesn't mean she doesn't know what she is talking about. Secondly, what did you husband write that had anything to do with the situation of Palestine? All I saw was an attempt to shame her, cut her down, and get under her skin.

If SZSZ doesn't understand arabic that that would be the only thing your husband could have possibly proved with those statements. I think asking your husband to come on VJ and cut someone down in Arabic is a pretty low thing to do. Maybe you thought no one else would understand, but its very easy for most to just ask their SO to translate.

Thank you, sis!

I do speak and understand Arabic and that's why I didn't respond. Mahmoud nor WOM know me well enough to decide what I am. So odd that one Palestinian cuts down another for not living there. Hell, many of us don't live there; we're in Jordan, Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, but we have family there, go there, support our cause on many levels, and wish to have a place there again. I have never heard of such a thing!

[Reynaldo 0]

But seriously now, when we start a thread, and we know that non-native speakers are reading our thread, we try to keep it in english...

And if someone ask for translation we don't say: "We won't translate it because it will put you to shame"

Edited January 8, 2007 by Reynaldo

[Ban Hammer 13,349]

I think asking your husband to come on VJ and cut someone down in Arabic is a pretty low thing to do. Maybe you thought no one else would understand, but its very easy for most to just ask their SO to translate.

i agree

[Sofiyya 1,687]

I am American, just as you are.

The reasons for emigrating here are superfluous....and if you want to say you're a Palestinian before you're an American, that would technically be incorrect. And I think that was the initial point of WOM and her hubby...

And if you don't consider yourself an American, perhaps your immigration process is going the wrong way

Lisa, as usual, you just come by to argue, but I'm not going to argue with you because you also have no basis upon which to determine what I am. WOM and Mahmoud were incorrect and they went out of their way to prove it.

[Ban Hammer 13,349]

well i'm apparently gained knowledge about brazil by osmosis since i married nessa

Did you know that Brazil was the only independent colony in the New World that became a Empire, instead of a Republic?

of course i knew that. i learned it by osmosis when i got married!

[Sofiyya 1,687]

But seriously now, when we start a thread, and we know that non-native speakers are reading our thread, we try to keep it in english...

And if someone ask for translation we don't say: "We won't translate it because it will put you to shame"

I know. I enjoy my time reading there.

[Reynaldo 0]

well i'm apparently gained knowledge about brazil by osmosis since i married nessa

Did you know that Brazil was the only independent colony in the New World that became a Empire, instead of a Republic?

of course i knew that. i learned it by osmosis when i got married!

Oh... I see...

I know. I enjoy my time reading there.

And feel free to post...

Specially on the Brazil's kitchen thread...

[Sofiyya 1,687]

And feel free to post...

Specially on the Brazil's kitchen thread...

That's the draw!

[jordanianprincess 0]

By the way, do you speak Arabic at all ? You haven't responded to a word my husband wrote (except the one word I translated.) He is becoming suspicious.

I do speak arabic and I would not have responded to either of those posts. Regardless of whether she speaks arabic or not, that doesn't mean she doesn't know what she is talking about. Secondly, what did you husband write that had anything to do with the situation of Palestine? All I saw was an attempt to shame her, cut her down, and get under her skin.

If SZSZ doesn't understand arabic that that would be the only thing your husband could have possibly proved with those statements. I think asking your husband to come on VJ and cut someone down in Arabic is a pretty low thing to do. Maybe you thought no one else would understand, but its very easy for most to just ask their SO to translate.

Thank you, sis!

I do speak and understand Arabic and that's why I didn't respond. Mahmoud nor WOM know me well enough to decide what I am. So odd that one Palestinian cuts down another for not living there. Hell, many of us don't live there; we're in Jordan, Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, but we have family there, go there, support our cause on many levels, and wish to have a place there again. I have never heard of such a thing!

There are many generations of Palestinians that have never lived a day in Palestine. That doesn't mean they are any less passionate about the cause. I know so many Palestinians that have never even been to Palestine but they speak arabic, know their roots, support their cause and so forth.

[ya falaha! 0]

Sorry for butting in...

I have a Palestinian friend who had never lived a day in Palestine (he was born and raised in Jordan). He's very passionate about Palestine. I don't believe you have to actually live somewhere to be passionate about it. I know Italian Americans (my mother's family) who are passionate about Italy but have never even visited the country. Just my two cents.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

You just don't tell a Palestinian they're not Palestinian. That's zionist talk. That's what I thought was soooo strange about what WOM and Mahmoud were saying to me. It took me aback coz anyone who knows about the displaced of Palestine knows that's when you do that, you're looking for a fight.

[Ban Hammer 13,349]

You just don't tell a Palestinian they're not Palestinian. That's zionist talk. That's what I thought was soooo strange about what WOM and Mahmoud were saying to me. It took me aback coz anyone who knows about the displaced of Palestine knows that's when you do that, you're looking for a fight.

i have to mark today down. wom gets the zionist label thrown back at her