Modern Iraq has no claim to ancient Mesopotamia. Being genetically related is a moot point when they do not even share the same culture, language, or religion.Culturally they are Arab, not Mesopotamian. They have no cultural similarities to the ancient Sumerians, Assyrians, or Babylonians.They do not speak Sumerian or Akkadian. Instead, they speak a non-Mesopotamian language called Arabic. At least the Greeks and Italians speak a language descended from Ancient Greek and Latin, meanwhile Arabic is not descended from Akkadian in any way.They do not follow the ancient Mesopotamian religion, instead they mostly follow Islam with a Christian minority. At least modern Indians despite being retarded inbred mutts follow the same religion, meanwhile you won’t find any Iraqi worshipping Marduk or Ishtar.The only Iraqi ethnicity with any real ties to ancient Mesopotamia are Assyrians since they at least share the same culture. Even then, they don’t even speak the same language (rather they speak Aramaic) and they don’t even follow the same religion (rather they follow Christianity).Saddam Hussein was a LARPer for proclaiming himself the heir of Nebuchadnezzar when he didn’t even follow the same culture and religion or speak the same language.
>>18221161Same with Egypt, they have no real claim to ancient Egypt as they are Arab and Muslim. The only group in Egypt with any real ties to the ancient Egyptians are the Copts and even then, they don’t follow the ancient Egyptian religion and instead follow Christianity.
"Assyrians" are just mountain christian Arab larpers kekBut I agree the ancient larp is cringe. But so are honkys larping as Romans and Vikings
>>18221161>Assyrians can only claim Assyrian civilisation but even then nobody believes they are descendants of Assyrians not even Mash Arabs are considered descendants of Mesopotamians>>18221164Copt zabbaleen are not different genetically than their Arabs neighbors and even speak Arabic. The Eurofags push them as direct descendant of the Ancients because they're christian. They don't believe the Fellaheen Arabs who like the Mash Arabs still practice ancient farming are descended from Ancient Egyptians like the Copts. New Ancient Egyptian whole genome sequenced shows South Arabians not Copts are closest to the Ancient Egyptians.
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>>18221161Arabs don't claim to be Mesopotamian or Near Eastern because that goes against Islam. Muslims are actual monotheists unlike Christians or Jews, so they take the whole "age of ignorance" thing very seriously. They see the Ancient Near East as a period to be forgotten.That said, I think they are Near Easterners. They had close proximity to them. They speak a Semitic language. They are largely the same as far as genetics go both in terms of haplogroups and ancestral groups.The only people that unironically claim to be "Mesopotamian" are usually Kurds and Iranians, both of whom are late arriver steppe people with no ancient links to the region.. These people can't make up their minds as to whether they're semites or whites.>Saddam Hussein was a LARPer for proclaiming himself the heir of Nebuchadnezzar when he didn’t even follow the same culture and religion or speak the same language.Iraqi Arabs don't care for that nonsense. They wanted a modernized Arab state and to strive for a common goal alongside other Arab countries. LARPing as a Babylonian isn't the reason why Arabs humiliated Iran in war and sent Kurds running for the hills.
>>18221161Better when they larp as ancient middle easterners than when they do muslim nonsense.
>>18221381Akkadian was east Semitic while Arabic is central Semitic. Not even in the same categories
>>18221393Still not the language of the Babylonians. You might as well say England is the heir to the Vikings because they both speak Germanic languages
>>18221161Modern Assyrians do, They speak Aramaic (Suret) with some Akkadian loan words and Vocabularies.
>>18221161Okay. Yeah.Are you italian or greek by chance?
