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This 5 page paper discusses Assyrian Americans, their history and their contributions to American culture. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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have left to try and build better lives elsewhere. This paper discusses their history, conditions they face in Iraq, the type of work they do, and their impact on
American culture and society. Who are the Assyrians? The Assyrian culture is ancient, and at one time they ruled the "Beth-Nahrain," which is the name given to the land
between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (Glastris, 1991). They were fierce warriors and their empire lasted for over 400 years before it "fell to civil war and foreign invasion"
(Glastris, 1991). In the first century A.D. they were converted to Christianity, allegedly by Thomas, one of Jesus apostles, which made them a Christian minority in a Muslim country
(Glastris, 1991). Their status has left them open to persecution by the majority, and they have in fact been persecuted throughout their history; several hundred Assyrians were killed when
Saddam Hussein gassed the Kurdish rebels in the Iran-Iraq War (Glastris, 1991). Assyrians "speak an Aramaic tongue" and are trying to keep the language alive by passing it down
to their children (Glastris, 1991). About 1.5 million Assyrians still live in Iraq, where their numbers are diminishing (Horan, 2003). Hussein forbade them to teach their language,
another reason why ?migr?s are so intent on passing it along (Horan, 2003). The Assyrians were apparently never numerous, and the numbers indicate that world-wide the population is probably
not more than 2-3 million. The largest Assyrian-American community is in Chicago, and numbers about 80,000 (Horan, 2003). Assyrians do not identify themselves as Arabs and resist the attempts
of the Iraqi government to classify them as such (Horan, 2003). They prefer to "count among their ranks other Christian groups whose ancestors came from ancient Mesopotamia"; among these
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