I will choose ten characteristics of the Lebanese, which I do not claim to always apply to him or to be restricted to him among the peoples of the earth. 1- If you visit the Lebanese, he feels offended when you decline his hospitality. 2- After God, his dignity counts first. 3- With regard to anything that concerns him, he seeks to \u201chave the best of the best\u201d. 4- He is fanatical (about his ilk and his origin\u2026). 5- He is a showoff; he likes to be seen. 6- He sees that friendship requires him to cover up his friends' shortcomings, and he expects to be treated the same. 7- You greet him after some absence, he returns the greeting with three kisses on both cheeks. You ask him: \u201cwho am I?\u201d. He gets a good look at you; he takes his time before answering: \u201cgive me one more minute\u2026\u201d. 8- When a fault is mentioned to him, he conjures up some others to whom he sees that the mentioned fault applies. 9- He now has a special question to ask those with whom he seldom meets: \u201care your children here (in Lebanon)?\u201d. 10- Wherever his life ends, he dies as a Lebanese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I will choose ten characteristics of the Lebanese, which I do not claim to always apply to him or to be restricted to him among the peoples of the earth. 1- If you visit the Lebanese, he feels offended when you decline his hospitality. 2- After God, his dignity counts first. 3- With regard to ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[2138,2656,2655,2189,2612],"class_list":["post-7685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-antiochian-heritage","tag-hospitality","tag-lebanese-culture","tag-orthodox-christian-identity","tag-social-customs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7961,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685\/revisions\/7961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}