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Catdubh — 12 years ago(June 15, 2013 10:52 PM)
Amazing how many people, in general make the most outlandish statements, based on their ignorance. Tony is Maronite Lebanese; Lebanese Christians have taken a stance in opposition to Pan-Arabism in Lebanon, and have never considered themselves, Arab.
There is nothing wrong with Arab people but Tony Shalhoub is not Arab.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maronites
Jack's not dead! Jack would never die without telling me, first! -
Wondering11 — 12 years ago(July 30, 2013 11:59 AM)
Levantine people are distinct from "Arabs", as in people on or near the Arabian peninsula. Compared to actual Arabs, Levantines can be much lighter skinned, and in accordance with their phenotype, they genetics predictably cluster closer to Europeans than with pure Arabs. Cypriots are usually the closest people the Lebanese cluster near outside of the Levant, followed by Sicilians and Ashkenazi Jews. As a Near Eastern people, they are Middle Eastern and Mediterranean hybrids. I will grant you the fact that Lebanese Muslims are Arab admixed, but Lebanese Maronites are descendants of the Phoenicians with some Western European admixture from the Crusaders. Religion is a serious factor in division in Lebanon, so Christians almost always never intermarry with Muslims and vice versa, so what results are difference directions of clustering between the two groups.
The first part of my post wasn't meant to be entirely pedantic, but mainly to provide the necessary background information needed in answering your question. Seeing as how Mr. Shalhoub is a Maronite, he can pass as a Mediterranean European or an American Jew to lesser trained eyes. -
squodge — 9 years ago(January 02, 2017 06:29 PM)
Why are people obsessed with having to qualify what kind of American an American person is? If an American guy's parents were originally from England, would you call him "English-American"? What if his parents were originally from Canada would you call him "Canadian-American"? If not, why not?
I'm born in the UK, so my nationality is British. My parents were born in Hong Kong. People often ask me where I'm from (as I obviously look Asian), and I say "the UK". They then follow it with "But where are you from originally?", and my answer is, "I'm originally from Liverpool. It's in the UK. The Beatles came from there - you might have heard of them."
Some people persist and ask, "What I mean is, where's your family from?" So if that's true, why didn't they ask that in the first place? What if my parents were actually born in the UK, but their parents were from Hong Kong?
But some others instead say, "But you don't look British". Okay, so what does a British person look like? It'd be just as stupid a question as, "What does an American look like?" Morgan Freeman was born in the USA - you can't tell me he doesn't look like an American.
So why is it people confuse nationality with ethnicity? It's not that difficult. Nationality depends on where you're born and has nothing to do with colour or ethnicity. An American is someone born in America - not that hard to understand. Tony Shalhoub was born in American, so it's completely natural for him to play an American. He's white anyway - he's definitely neither black nor Asian. -
activista — 9 years ago(January 04, 2017 02:46 PM)
@squodge
Like I said before, all Arab-Americans(or Arabs) aren't considered white, especially here in the U.S.I think it depends on what part of the country they're in, and how long they're been in the U.S.I can tell you, they're definitely not considered culturally "white" in the Detroit metro area, that's for certainespecially since 9/11. -
lukejbarnett — 3 years ago(November 05, 2022 04:02 PM)
no way he is arab? really? bc i always thought he was hispanic or spanish? he always seemed this way on wings anyway. so does this prove that hollywood is racist against arabs the fact that they don't cast arab characters with arab actors?
he really played convincingly a spanish or greek character on wings!
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