Why are all the posts and comments on /r/lebanon written in English? Is it like /r/Brazil (English, 100,000 subs) and /r/brasil (Portuguese, 2,100,000 subs)? Because the sidebar, which is also in English, doesn't have a link to an Arabic version of the sub.
!nooticers, could it be the overwhelming majority of that sub's users aren't from Lebanon and don't speak Arabic? No, that's silly. Why would a bunch of Europeans and Americans pretend to be Lebanese?
Because it's one of the official languages of Lebanon? Next are you going to tell me that Lebanese never speak French?
Why would a bunch of Europeans and Americans pretend to be Lebanese?
Most Lebanese people live outside Lebanon. You find large populations of them in: USA, France, the Gulf, Brazil, the rest of South America, West Africa, Australia...
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.
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.
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Why are all the posts and comments on /r/lebanon written in English? Is it like /r/Brazil (English, 100,000 subs) and /r/brasil (Portuguese, 2,100,000 subs)? Because the sidebar, which is also in English, doesn't have a link to an Arabic version of the sub.
!nooticers, could it be the overwhelming majority of that sub's users aren't from Lebanon and don't speak Arabic? No, that's silly. Why would a bunch of Europeans and Americans pretend to be Lebanese?
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Be thankful to God it's a Portuguese language sub. One of the most r-slurred leftoid shitholes on reddit, worse than /r/australia
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Because it's one of the official languages of Lebanon? Next are you going to tell me that Lebanese never speak French?
Most Lebanese people live outside Lebanon. You find large populations of them in: USA, France, the Gulf, Brazil, the rest of South America, West Africa, Australia...
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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.
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.
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.
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Self-hating white kids?
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For the same reason that the majority of the founders of the state of Israel never spoke Hebrew, and a bunch of Europeans pretended to be Jewish.
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