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What is chaldean?
A lot of Assyrians are too proud of their roots, so they love proving that Chaldeans are really Assyrians.
Let me say, if you are Chaldean, more than likely, you are historically Catholic. The name came from the Catholic church back in the 15th century to break ties Chaldeans (babylonians at the time) from their previous ties identities to other groups. Chaldeans maintain full communion with the Pope in Rome today.
But the Assyrian population is not constrained by the Catholic religion. There are many different religious affiliations with the Assyrian identity, such as the Assyrian Church of the East, Assyrian Evangelical Church, and Assyrian Pentecostal Church, to name a few.
Assyrian Catholics and Chaldean Catholics are ancient people, and chaldeans, syriacs, and assyrians came from one people and then split off into 3 groups, but both groups have evolved, so for anyone to say we are the same people are extremely ignorant.
But let's say we are all Assyrian. Taking this information from the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA), 45% of Assyrians are Chaldeans (i.e. THE MAJORITY). The Assyrian identity proponents want a majority to change their name?
Finally, as a little anecdote, as my uncle/boss was reading the article (he is around 38 years old), he asked me "what is an Assyrian?" If that doesn't clearly illustrate to you why we shoud not change our name, then I don't know what will. If a man does not even know what an Assyrian is, how can we forge through the trenches and call him an Assyrian, something he knows nothing about?
Chaldeans can unite with Assyrians not through name change; it is completely unnecessary and irrelevant. When you say "Save Christians of Iraq" that encompasses all Christians, not just Chaldeans, Assyrians, and Syriacs. "Assyrian" is NOT a great unifier. Whoever decided to start this whole Assyrian campaign is an idiot. It is offensive, unintelligent, and based on hubris. It is the sole reason that there is a division today. I'm happy that Chaldeans aren't laying down and taking everything they are being spoon fed for face value. I am one of those THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of Chaldeans.
Chaldeans seperating from Assyrians is older from the Americans seperating from the English. Does that make Americans truly English? NO.
- H.S.
Ashur (assyrian): YOU'RE ALL ASSYRIAN! WE MUST SAVE THE ASSYRIAN NAME SO WE CAN GET OUR LAND AND SAVE OUR PEOPLE!
Brando (syriac): Okay, let's call ourselves syrian and get the land
Sargon (assyrian): NEVER!
Yousif (chaldean): Yeah, you tell 'em, Brando!
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Chaldean - what is it?
I recently read Joyce Wiswell's piece entitled "Will - and should - Chaldeans and Assyrians unite?" and I firmly believe that the identity designation of "Chaldean" should not be used interchangeably with "Assyrian.”
Many Assyrians argue that the designation of the Chaldean name is religious, and not cultural. At first, when the Catholic Church gave the Assyrian Catholics the name “Chaldean” in 1553, we shared nearly identical traits in our culture with the other Assyrians. But we are currently living half a millennium after the fact. In those 500 years, Chaldeans have developed their own dialect, traditions, and ways. Our culture is directly correlated to our religion, Catholicism. This doesn’t mean that we cannot have a culture to supplement our strong religious values.
In Michigan alone, there are 120,000 Chaldeans. I would venture to guess that 80% refuse to denote themselves as Assyrians. There’s a reason for this choice; we are no longer the same people. Our parents didn’t just decide that we aren’t Assyrians out of thin air. We’ve acknowledged ourselves as Chaldeans for centuries, and we’ve embraced our culture. It’s ours, and we shouldn’t be willing to compromise it by assimilating into an Assyrian identity. In my 18th year as a Chaldean, I’ve been criticized for not calling myself Assyrian, which isn’t only an identity I don’t associate with, but also a name that will become the end to our culture.
Examine the consequences of Chaldeans accepting ancient relations and identifying themselves as Assyrians. Already, the forced assimilation has occurred in media. A prime example is of the recently martyred Father Ragheed Ganni of Iraq, who was mentioned as an Assyrian priest killed in an Assyrian Church, with no mention of his ties to the Chaldean Catholic Church. Our Chaldean villages, like Telkeppe and Alqosh, are designated as Assyrian villages on the user-edited Wikipedia, which millions of users use as a source of reliable information. Our name is being erased, and this systematic and carefully planned Assyrianization (as I call it), will prove to be the end of the Chaldeans. We'll be remembered historically as the Ancient Chaldeans, and that's if the history books of the future don’t decide to call us Catholic Assyrians.
Assyrianization is very similar to the Arabization process. The Arab name was forced on us in Iraq. We were forced to speak Arabic, and punished when we spoke our mother tongue. Indeed, history repeats itself, and this time, it’s more subtle. This approach is proving an end to our rich culture, just by simply identifying as an Assyrian. As I’ve already illustrated, there’s so much to a name; it is not just a name.
Hopefully, Assyrian groups will not insist an identity change from the Chaldeans. It is my hope that we can work together, without forcing an identity on anyone else, in order to help our suffering people of Iraq. We’re related to the Assyrians historically, but we’re no longer the same people. We’re simply Modern Assyrians and Modern Chaldeans. We’re different. And everyone should assess the consequences of this very important issue before a culture is erased.
-Hadeer
ashur (assyrian): i love assyria!
yousif (chaldean): bro, assyria doesn't exist anymore
What does "chaldean" mean?
Or Cameldeans, these loud ass fucks think they are hard asses from Detroit, when they aren't. They are spoiled little shits who are dumber than rocks. Your daddy own a gas station and doesn't pay taxes, now get the fuck out of here. They think they're black, when they aren't. Black people hate them for trying to be hardasses, and get their ass kicked for it. Pussies who can't fight because they need to call all their stupid cousins, who inbreed by the way, and don't fight clean because they know they'll get their ass rocked when 1 on 1. I have to constantly remind them to shut up because they aren't tough. Good ol white boys kick the shit out of them periodically to keep them in their place. Camels suck.
Camels, get the fuck out of MI.
Chaldean - what does it mean?
An immigrant (sometimes illegal) from an Arab nation who either owns or has a close relative who owns a liquor store or gas station and has limited education.
Known to pack with fellow chaldeans for purposes of feeling secure and powerful although possessing very little security or power in reality.
Never mature emotionally and are distrustful of true americans. Pack in groups and never learn to function on their own. Furthermore, they don't integrate into the american culture well and tend to keep their arab ways of life which is mostly annoying. Not well liked by the general population.
I need to grab a six pack and some smokes....OK, I'm running up to the chaldean store, be back in 10 mins.
Chaldean - meaning
chaldean: iraqi christians of the eastern rite branch of catholicism.
not arab; however very similar.
chaldeans, like all races have their good and bad.
the good: very good at running a business. have more business knowledge than many nonchaldeans who have college degrees in business. they have somehow cheated uncle sam out of paying income tax on their party store operation. I don't know how.
the bad: chaldeans think they are racially superior to other races. I dont know why. they dont have a home nation, lack any drive to acquire advanced education, and have an arrogance/superiority complex that would make YOU WANT to pretend like they don't exist.
these people are shallow and materialistic to the extreme, so much so in that they sacriice higher education in favor of getting plastic surgery.
I have never met a chaldean brain surgeon, nor are there any significant number of chaldeans at places like Stanford or MIT
chaldeans, like all races have their good and bad.
the good: very good at running a business. have more business knowledge than many nonchaldeans who have college degrees in business. they have somehow cheated uncle sam out of paying income tax on their party store operation. I don't know how.
the bad: chaldeans think they are racially superior to other races. I dont know why. they dont have a home nation, lack any drive to acquire advanced education, and have an arrogance/superiority complex that would make YOU WANT to pretend like they don't exist. THEY DO NOT LIKE OTHER ARABS/ OTHER MIDDLE EASTERN PEOPLE. they also hate muslims, and other non-christian arabs
these people are shallow and materialistic to the extreme, so much so in that they sacriice higher education in favor of getting plastic surgery.
I have never met a chaldean brain surgeon, nor are there any significant number of chaldeans at places like Stanford or MIT
Chaldean - definition
A chaldean a Christian from Iraq (cradle of civilization) that are some of the best people in the world. Everyone would be so lucky if they were Chaldean. The girls are hot like fire. Everyone is so jealous of them because they dont act like sluts and sleep with every Tom, Dick, and Harry like white trash. They have morals and good judgement. One word of advice: never try to screw around with a chaldean cuz you know there will be another chaldean around to screw you over.
John: Hey baby, what's your nationality?
Chaldean girl: I am chaldean
John: What is chaldean?
Chaldean Girl: Someone that will not be seen with you
Chaldean - slang
We're only the best, and people have a hard time accepting it.
"They are spoiled little shits who are dumber than rocks."
Yea? That's why we can afford everything you said below? Contradiction? Hold on a sec, dipshit, I bet got your ass wooped and girlfriend stolen by a Chaldean and decided to go home on the internet and post stupid shit about us cause YOU'RE LIEK TEH TUFFest GUY on the INterNET CYBeR BULLY!!!@@@!
"They think they're black, when they aren't. Black people hate them for trying to be hardasses, and get their ass kicked for it."
Naaaa, go listen to that song Chaldeans and Niggas. I'll admit, though, that there are a few who do that but it's like that in every race. White people...Wiggers. Chinese people...Chiggers. Chaldeans...Sand Niggers? Hindus... Hindiggers or cowbelievingiggers.
"Pussies who can't fight because they need to call all their stupid cousins, who inbreed by the way, and don't fight clean because they know they'll get their ass rocked when 1 on 1."
Na it's not cause we can't fight, it's cause we Chaldeans are always there for each other like brothers.. not like you pussy ass preppy bitches that run at the first sight of trouble.
"I have to constantly remind them to shut up because they aren't tough. Good ol white boys kick the shit out of them periodically to keep them in their place. Camels suck."
LOL?!???? I swear on your life you've never said or done that to a Chaldo.
I took a shit on Spartan's face. Why? Cause I can. How's this possible? Cause I'm Chaldean.
Chaldean
A "Catholic" or Christian from an area of Iraq. While Arab, they are Christians. More of them in Detroit now than in Iraq. They are successful business people who control the grocery, meat and party store business. Often resented by blacks and whites who are too lazy to work fourteen hour days to establish themselves and their relatives.
Them Chaledan motherfuckers own the "D"
Often refered to as "sand niggers" and "terrorists".
Chaldean
The Chaldean are adherents of the Chaldean Catholic Church and are a subset of the Assyrian people.
Today in the middle east, the group identifies itself as Sūrāyā in singular and Sūrāyē in plural, which is considered to be a synonym of Aššūrāye (Assyrians.) However, the group mistakenly translates the word Suraye as Christians.
They have been settling primarily in Iraq, with smaller communities in Turkey and Iran, for the most part speaking the Chaldean Neo-Aramaic language. A formerly Nestorian denomination, they were reunited with the Roman Catholic Church in 1553. Chaldean Catholic Church was established, its first patriarch was proclaimed patriarch of "Mosul and Athur" (Nineveh and Assyria) on Feb. 20, 1553 by Pope Julius III.
Chaldean Catholics have no direct or absolute lineage with the Neo-Babylonian Empire "Chaldeans", but were designated with the name Chaldean in the 16th century when they reunited with the Catholic Church to distinguish from the adherents of the Assyrian Church of the East.
Mar Raphael I Bidawid (former patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church): “I personally think that these different names serve to add confusion. The original name of our Church was the ‘Church of the East’ ... When a portion of the Church of the East became Catholic, the name given was ‘Chaldean’ based on the Magi kings who came from the land of the Chaldean, to Bethlehem. The name ‘Chaldean’ does not represent an ethnicity... We have to separate what is ethnicity and what is religion... I myself, my sect is Chaldean, but ethnically, I am Assyrian."
Mar Raphael I Bidawid: “Before I became a priest I was an Assyrian, before I became a bishop I was an Assyrian, I am an Assyrian today, tomorrow, forever, and I am proud of it."
Chaldean
The Chaldean People are basically the roman catholic population from/in Iraq. We have a deep importance in history, EX. 1 We were one the first civilizations in mesopatamia (ancient Iraq) and also the Chaldean language derives from Aramaic (the language that Jesus spoke). Most of Chaldeans now live in Iraq, as well as Detroit, Arizona, and also California. Very warm hearted, kind, and hard working ppl. The caucasion ppl in the EMINEM video, welcom to Detroit are all CHALDEAN.
Royce Da 59 - Detroit, A city full of Tommy Hearst thumpers,Grant Hill hoopers, Barry Sanders runners, stunners,and chaldeans we connects like whoa!
^^^^^^PS. FUCK THAT COCK SUCKIN WHITE BOY (Spartan) WHO WROTE THAT COMMENT ABOVE MINE. LET ME CATCH U IN THE D! BITCH.