seb_pard
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« on: December 22, 2014, 10:54:41 AM » |
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Well, this is an interesting topic from my perspective because my country (Chile) has a sizable Arab christian population (particularly Palestinian and Lebanese).
I think there a lot of reasons of the decline of christian Arabs, first is the sectarian conflicts, but this affects Muslims too, but for a christian is less attractive to move to another Arab country than a Sunni or shii and some of then prefer to move to other regions.
The Arabs started to emigrate to Chile because of some conflicts I don't remember but they were actually very successful here and accumulate some wealth and they created some powerful networks and then some Arabs started to came here for economic reasons. In today's Chile the Palestinian are over represented in the upper classes.
The Palestinian/Arab community in Chile always try to bring some refugees from the middle east and in the last years started to arrive not only christian refugees but Muslims too. So I think the main reason of christian population's decline in the middle east is because for a christian refugee is more attractive to move to a christian majority country than another with a majority Muslim population.
An interesting fact is that the chilean Arab population is very supportive of the Palestinian cause and even the chilean right wing parties are not very friendly to Israel's policy.
(Sorry about my english but I hope to contribute to the discussion).
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