Masato wrote:Where did you live where you saw red-haired arabs?
Luigi always a deeper source for info than he lets on, lol
The dude in Canuckster's vids seems of the opinion that 'mainstream academia' scoffs at any such concept but maybe its not so cut and dry anymore?
That trait is fairly common among Syrians and Northern Iraqis, especially among the Christians and the semi Islamic Shia sects like the Druzes and especially the Alawi. But then, they aren't really Arabs. Most of them are the descendants of the Arameans. And even the old Arameans were a mixed lot having assimilated the Hittite, Assyrian, Babylonian, Phoenician (mostly later Arabized) and even the Cappadocian populations (later Hellenized and finally mostly Turkified) in the Syriac Christian era and really even prior to the Syrian Oriental age beginning in the Late Assyrian Empire.
This must have happened due to the advent of the Aramaic papyrus script and the resulting spread of the Aramaic language from it's geographical Syria homeland into Iraq, Central Anatolia and the Levant.The Hittites and the Cappadocians were Indo European peoples and after their Aramaicization became known as the 'White Syrians', as opposed to the 'Black Syrians'. The term 'Syrian' was probably first used by the Greeks as a name for the Arameans do to the spread of the Aramaic language into the Upper Iraq homeland of the Assyrians and the consequent inability of the Greeks to differentiate between the Assyrians and the Arameans; 'Syrian' being a Greek corruption of 'Assyrian'.
I used to correspond with an Assyrian cleric during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Father Gabriel. He has a red beard.