But how the hell can a person
Go on to work in the morning
To come home in the evening
And have nothing to say
Go on to work in the morning
To come home in the evening
And have nothing to say
I never want to be the one with nothing to say, finding I speak way too much.. it's better than the former.
I learned to say "why" in Serbian.. Zashto! A reclusive family of Chaldeans moved in our complex, I hope to meet them, I understand they are family of he guys who run Sabatinis up the street, and they are super cool. I never heard of Chaldeans until I moved to SD. I find the Urban Dictionary's posts pretty insightful :)
*Chaldeans don't give a fuck about anything except the important things
in life: Family (friends are already considered family) and Prosperity.
Also to get married so they don't have to hear "whenna zowage whenna
zowage" everyday we wake up. The only way you will ever be able to get
into a Chaldeans house is when you are respected and only that- respect
is more important than anything and it goes both ways.
Upon taking your shoes off after you close the door behind you, you are greeted by parents who want to know your last name and what village you're from and if you know 30-40 other Chaldeans they might think you're related to. At the end of these type of conversations you find out you're basically my 4th cousin and you are welcome to help yourself to the fridge anytime you are in the hood. By this point you will notice ashtrays are actually being used for Pistachio shells and there are several plates of almonds/cashews/sunflowerseeds all put at strategic places - by televisions or phones or where baba sits. That and there are two freezers and we're not alowwed to let you know where the other one is because it contains 3000$ worth of meats.
It doesn't matter how old you are, if you're Chaldean and you're 16 or 24 your mom will still give you a call if its past midnight ...
Upon taking your shoes off after you close the door behind you, you are greeted by parents who want to know your last name and what village you're from and if you know 30-40 other Chaldeans they might think you're related to. At the end of these type of conversations you find out you're basically my 4th cousin and you are welcome to help yourself to the fridge anytime you are in the hood. By this point you will notice ashtrays are actually being used for Pistachio shells and there are several plates of almonds/cashews/sunflowerseeds all put at strategic places - by televisions or phones or where baba sits. That and there are two freezers and we're not alowwed to let you know where the other one is because it contains 3000$ worth of meats.
It doesn't matter how old you are, if you're Chaldean and you're 16 or 24 your mom will still give you a call if its past midnight ...
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The proper name given by the Pope to describe
the ethnic Assyrians who split from the Assyrian Church Of the East to
the Roman Catholic Church known as the Great Schism. They speak a
dialect of Chaldean Neo-Aramaic. For four centuries the Catholic Church
tried to convert the Assyrians to Catholicism. It must be mentioned that
the Assyrians of different religious denominations (Orthodoxy,
Nestorian, Catholic, Maronite etc.), due to their lack of education, are
not united as one nation but hate each other, thinking the others are
foreigners!
The King of Assyria; Essarhadon,
had 2 sons named Ashurbanipal (who had already been in control of
Nineveh to the North) and Shamash-shum-ukin (The Predecessor of KALDU).
After King Essarhadon's death, Babylonia was left to be governed by his
son Shamash-shum-ukin and eventually revolted against his brother in 652
BC. In 626 Bc, Babylon had eventually threw off the Assyrian rule under
King Nabopolassar's reign thus creating the Neo-Babylonian Empire
(Chaldean Empire) with Babylon as the capital.
I truly enjoyed our last neighbor, Fauiza who taught me some interesting things about her Persian culture. I wish her well, she was really thoughful and just a great lady. Azizam Khodahafez to you, friend.
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