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=> Paul Batou...."Proud" Slave

Paul Batou...."Proud" Slave

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Thursday, August 21 2008, 19:35:06 (CEST)
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It’s considered indecent and unbecoming for a person to brag about his or her achievements. That only holds true, among our Christians, for anything positive they may accomplish. But there’s another sort of bragging and it’s a national pastime with these so-called Assyrians. Whereas once mighty deeds and accomplishments were listed, now defeats and beatings and losses are rattled off with obvious relish.

In some cultures begging is an accepted way of life for the poorest of the poor. In extreme cases beggars will pick at their scabs deliberately or expose their runny sores in the marketplace to gain pity and higher dividends. Going a step further some beggars deliberately disfigure their children before putting them to work...obviously there is a kind of “bragging” going on where the worse off you can present yourself, the greater the pity and therefore the spoils. It’s not the way most people would choose to make a living but it’s preferable to starving and, apparently, seeking some other manner of survival; either because there’s simply no alternative or because it appeals to a beggar-type mentality.

Assyrians consider themselves a proud people....I see it more as false pride...not the real stuff. Where it comes to fancy watches or cars and clothes, they yearn for the best, the most showy and expensive. But where inner quality is concerned or, more to the point, pride of “race”, they not only settle for cheap and shoddy but positively seek it out and even seem to prefer what is of a low order rather than what is fine and noble.

They’ll drive a BMW(or the best they can manage) to a meeting at their store-front “club” and then dicker over the sequined gown their “queen” is to wear in a parade to show their “pride”. They’ll settle for gew gaws from Woolworths, cheap satin, rayon actually if it’s on sale, gold spray paint, masking tape and a cardboard “chariot” to be pulled by Assyrian “warriors”, in place of horses....warriors wearing tinsel skirts and T shirts with shoelaces wrapped around their hairy legs to represent sandals.

Where it comes to their pride in being “Assyrian” the equivalent of a Yugo will do...though they wouldn’t be caught driving one because it “reflects badly” on their sense of personal “pride”...but ask them to spend $50.00 to get a better dress for their “queen”, to make a better showing of their “ethnic pride” and they’ll whimper and want to skimp and scrape.

Paul Batou is made of just such tinsel. The man has no real pride in being Assyrian. What he enjoys is using his supposed heritage as a means by which to expose his scabs, his lash-marks from being a “slave” so that all will feel sorry for him. Maybe he senses that his life of “hardship” will excuse his art...or elevate it somehow making pity for the artist what determines the value of the art.

It’s a question of character and integrity, not ethnicity. This goes a long way in explaining why it is, after 150 years living in the richest country on earth, these Assyrians have managed to create nothing of pride for their heritage....why they still see themselves as abused and put-upon to the point where they’re adamantly opposed to anyone among us actually gaining pride of place for the heritage...even while they strive for that Rolex because it “means something”...because it indicates personal pride, achievement, success. But the real stuff is sadly lacking and these “beggars” and slaves prefer it that way.

It would take a great load off their shoulders if all of a sudden a BMW or Mercedes became symbols of poverty and lack of status...while any Ford older than 1983 became the preferred vehicle for movie stars and the super wealthy. How much easier it would be for more Assyrians to “make it”...to arrive. That’s exactly where they prefer their ethnic pride to remain...with old, beat-up cars worth very little in real terms....that’s how they value their “heritage”...that’s how they wish it to remain so that having Assyrian pride is a cheap thing, easily affordable, even though its rusted and shot trough with defects.

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