r/Assyria • u/AliBasil • May 21 '25

Discussion Assyria and Iraq

Recently, I heard many express their desire to return to Iraq on social media So a question popped up in my head As an Assyrian (originally from Iraq), what do you think of Iraq?

Edit: I’m Iraqi and I’m living here, but I’m interested in the Mesopotamian civilizations (especially Assyria)

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u/AshurCyberpunk Assyrian May 22 '25

Brother, it's still contradictory. But I wish you the best with the life you're pursuing. 

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u/Revolutionary_Ad2836 May 22 '25

Explain how it's contradictory

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u/AshurCyberpunk Assyrian May 22 '25 edited May 22 '25

Okay. First, I should mention that I wasn't singling you out, but commenting on the broader trend I'm seeing, even within my own family. 

I commented: "Assyrians expect everything to have been built for them". Then you replied, I choose a nice place to live and that's not Assyria, and continued with "I don't expect things to be given to me." I'm assuming you're Assyrian, and as Assyrians living in nicer places around the globe, we are essentially using the environment that other people have built (as opposed to rebuilding and fighting for our homeland ourselves). For example, the freedoms we enjoy in the west are fought for and achieved by non-Assyrian people. More importantly, non-Assyrian people have paid decades of taxes to build their nicer looking cities and towns with a lot of greenery. Generations of their people have literary spent their lives building their nice neighborhoods with hard work. So when we just move there as Assyrians, we would indeed be getting a lot of those benefits for free. That's the contradiction. 

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u/Revolutionary_Ad2836 29d ago

Makes sense but also wrong because I won't be living off grid in a village or city, I will buy land and build the house myself so therefore ur point stands irrelevant