Lebanese cope because they suck and everybody hates them

English isn't one of the official languages of Lebanon, but it is common there. French, on the other hand, is kind of an official language.

Article 11

The Arabic language is the official national language. The conditions under which the French language is to be used are determined by law.

Besides, the frequency of English doesn't really matter here. The overwhelming majority of Icelanders are capable of speaking English, but if you go to /r/Iceland, it's in Icelandic. And while you're right that the Lebanese diaspora is pretty extensive, we're talking about the subreddit for Lebanon, the country. Which brings me to my actual point.

When it comes to national subreddits, they're typically in their native language. If they're not, it's for one of three reasons.

1. The country in question has way too many languages. Think Zimbabwe, with it's 16 official languages. Shona and Ndebele, the most common native languages, are only spoken by ~40% of the population each. So English is the lingua franca, as well as the language used on /r/Zimbabwe.

2. They have an English sub and a sub for their (single) native language. I already mentioned /r/Brazil and /r/brasil, but /r/Netherlands and /r/nederlands is another example. They've also got meme subs like /r/ik_ihe and /r/tokkiefeesboek.

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3. The majority of the sub's users aren't actually from the country in question, and are, at best, weird fetishists experiencing a lifelong !mayomoment. Like how /r/japan is just a bunch of weebs, or /r/China's top mod is a Californian who spends all his time posting on gun subs.

At worst, they're the Eternal Redditor engaged in yet another form of politicking. Which is pretty clearly the case for /r/lebanon. And /r/Israel, for that matter.

The thing is, you know all that. And if you cooled off about all this sandshit and rejoined your fellow !grillers in barely caring, you'd be able to recognize it without some long-winded explanation. So grab a cheeseburger. I promise, the Jews aren't gonna break in and steal it. That wouldn't be... kosher.

Lebanon is pretty much always going to be dominated by Syria.

Skill issue.

founded by people pissed off at being oppressed by the occupiers

*Seething arabs crying to Iran for money because they lost to Jews again

But the Lebanese could have avoided all this by just behaving and not taking part in Arab coalitions to invade Israel.

Palestoids in Lebanon are 2nd class citizens prohibited from owning land and engaging in dozens of professions

Wow, what brave resistance of the evil Zionist Entity

Impressive. Normally people with such severe developmental disabilities struggle to write much more than a sentence or two. He really has exceded our expectations for the writing portion. Sadly the coherency of his writing, along with his abilities in the social skills and reading portions, are far behind his peers with similar disabilities.

That's part of Arabic culture. One thing you have to remember is a lot of their talk is just posturing. Pride is the quintessential Arab vice.

That's because the best and smarter ones migrated to !latinx america 100 years ago

Israel been actively trying to destabilize their country for the last 50+ years and I think they've been pretty successful. Hezbollah wouldn't even exist in the first place if they hadn't invaded. So yeah, I think there's blame to spread around.

Also I don't see any Western countries offering to take the 1 million Syrian refugees there. That's 1/4 of their population. You can hardly blame them for it.

Isn't according to their belief, they can lie to kuffar as much as they want (Taqiyya)?

Catholics know and Catholics appreciate that about them.

Well half of Christian in the world support Gaza so like it says 0 Standard deviation