How Assyrians Can Reclaim Their Nation | W/ Neenib Youkana and Braven Davood

I’m Armenian and I support for a Assyrian homeland, in the their native land.

Im atheist but I still support a Christian Assyria! Assyrians deserve their indigenous acknowledgement and action.

I think a big part is getting more Chaladeans, Arameans, Syriacs etc to join in the shared identity.

I am a Greek American but I would love the establishment of an Assyrian Homeland. I think having a deliberately planned Assyrian community in the US would be a great start! I would support however I can

I’m Jordanian Christian but I hope assirya becomes real country. Growing up in Muslim country is hard because they make fun of me everyday and I stop believe in Jesus and became a secret atheist (because being athiest will make people kill you in Jordan) but last year i saw Jesus and now im not scared anymore. I talk to my Muslim friends and now they’re mad at me so they don’t talk to me anymore but I still pray for them. I wish assirya becomes real to so I can live with more Christians

I'm not assyrian but I would definitely sign up to bring back Christian Assyria, we need more christian countries in the middle east

Invest in the Niniveh Plains to keep your people there so that it remains an Assyrian majority province. If Assyrian continue to leave the niniveh plains it will be very hard to get that land back.

It is important to invest in the homeland, our villages, our infrastructure, so that we have something to return to. Because the longer we wait, the more of our people are leaving our homeland. By investing, we give our people a more comfortable living condition, giving them jobs, buying land, building businesses and housing, and most importantly, they won't feel like they have been forgotten. Not only that, Assyrians who are raised in the West will have an easier adjustment when the living conditions are more modernised. One of the biggest deterrent for culturally western Assyrians is the lack of constant electricity, many villages not having constant access to water, things that can be easily solved if we invested enough which doesn't even cost that much for us who make a western income.

Fighting for your country is not a sin. Some of our early Christian saints were soldiers who were martyred for not denouncing Christ not for refusing to fight battles. Saints like George, Sebastian, Theodore, Demetrius etc were great warriors in the Roman army.

Nearly six million Assyrian Christians dot the world. Mesopotamia is the homeland of the Assyrians. The famous royal cities of the Assyrians, Ashur, Nimrud (Kalhu), Arbela, Dur-Sharrukin and Nineveh were built in it. The Assyrians ruled for approximately 1,300 years - from about 2000 B.C. to 612/10 BC – in northern Mesopotamia an ancient landscape between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. A clear reference to the existence of the Assyrians, on the other hand, can already be found in the Old Testament (1st Book of Moses 2:14). There it says: * “… the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates..." One day we will return to our country. Assyria belongs to the Assyrians. Isaiah 19:23-25 Assyria includes Tur Abdin, Botan, Hakkari, Urmia and Nineveh. The people speak surit (Ashur-Sur-Surit) and call themselves Suraye (Ashuraye) in their language.

Great show. Thank you and khayeeton from Sydney, Australia

Your subject about Assyrian mixed marriages. I'm one of them, an immigrant, a successful immigrant, and a U.S. veteran. God showed us an example to learn from his creations, look at the birds in the sky, always two of the same kinds are with each other. There is so much discussion and learning or teaching for our future youths that want to marry other than of their own culture, language, history, habits, and the future of the Assyrian nation. To dispute my comments about mixed marriage, I often believed that marriage is written in heaven, we do not have control over who would be our partner in life and the children and the grandchildren that come out of that marriage, somehow my firm belief of not having a mixed marriage is beyond our control, that is how I''m convincing myself, right or wrong, and that is my true belief. This is a long and very sensitive subject, we may not all agree on its foundation or its future, but it is a subject we must explore and talk about for a better future for the Assyrian families. Wish you all the best. God bless,

Neenib & Braven, I'm so proud of you two and those Assyrians like you who have taken an interest in our culture, history, language, and the hope for Assyria to rise again as a nation. Very seldom I do see the Assyrian youths taking an interest in our future. Thank you for this and any future shows, by encouraging other Assyrian youths to return to their Assyrian roots and our future. God bless you all and many thanks from me to you.

There needs to be an group of the top Assyrian minds that get together and finance certain projects in the homeland so it's more suitable for people to move in

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8:06 To be honest I have seen it go both ways. One side of my family had married outside and the other has not. The ones that married out are not involved in their culture and their children are all basically white. The side that marries within the culture are still having harder times raising their children in a fully cultured fashion. To live in America means that there will always be a certain degree of declination in cultural practices. To keep our cultural practices would mean that we must marry within our culture, develop strong lingual skills in the native tongue, and raise our children with our native tongues, stressing the importance of culture. I have learned to read and write and constantly develop my skills because it is honestly how I spend my free time. I am 22 and have been learning since 18. It has changed my trajectory immensely and has brought me to understandings of my culture that has an impact on those around me. I had not even spoken Sureth 5% at age 17* (my father had to learn more english and we had to do good in school) as I had went to Iraq with my family (2019). Now I can speak to my Grandparents like never before and they are happier because of it. I can speak to my cousins in Iraq fluently without shyness of culture shock. I can help others come to understandings of the native tongue and push them forward in their culture. I had come to this practice when I began to think of what I would like to give to my child. I am not married yet, but I thought it be appropriate to think about what I may give my family in the future. I learn today, for a son tomorrow.

We have a indigenous homeland called Nineveh region, north Iraq ! We need a central government to control Nineveh. Plant our Assyrian flag with the Iraqi flag together. Nineveh as our province ! King ashur is on our flag for a reason, we are warriors! The Kurd neighbours are the problem and are fighting Turkey right now, we just wait and watch ! And as long as kids identify as assyrian only, doesn’t matter who assyrian men marry !

10:18 Just to chime in on that topic. Main reason why you dont see examples of assyrian marriages by influecers is that dating is seen as huge taboo. As soon as you talk to someone you have that added pressure of marriage. If people find out you are talking to that person and nothing comes out of it you might be seen as flawed, rather than looking at it from the perspective of compatibility. Successful people are very careful with who they marry, because they cannot afford to marry the wrong person, so it is much less risky for them to date from a culture that normalizes dating publicly before proposal and marriage. That relieves people from pressure of rushing marriage and allows them to date around, and fully understand what they are looking for in a partner. A nice balance is much needed.v

REGARDING ASSYRIAN WORKERS: My father is a Nagara/ܢܓܪܐ/Carpenter. He is an Alqoshnaya (Chaldean♰Assyrian🩸, Nineveh) that is the best nagara in all of southern California. He rarely ever works for Assyrians(Chaldean Assyrians) because it always has to be involved with favors. His best customers happen to be out of Palm Springs. The people in the area are mostly old, white, and gay. It is the gay capital of America (OG gays - old with money). They (old white gays)see great work>they pay and dont complain> they refer us to their neighbors> we have more work on the same street. It is a simple formula that has kept my family living in Murrieta, Riverside, California for 16 years. We all want a good deal, but that only ends up leading our workers to other communities. My father has seen much success contracting in southern California. If it was Metro Detroit, Chicago, or Arizona, it would not be as fruitful. We have tried to work with our community, we would starve.

I hope Middle Eastern Christians unite in order to bring back Assyria. That region is riddled with failed states that will collapse on day, due to Islam. And this is the time when a new Assyria can be established. I will pray this happens. But it it will be difficult.