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Not sure about Europe, but in the USA there assimilate as well as European immigrants. The former governor of my state (Indiana) is half Syrian Christian and half White American, Mitch Daniels (actually Esau, his father changed their name). Steve Jobs was 100% Syrian and raised by a secular American family, he did ok. There is an American Football quarterback named Johnny Manziel who is of Syrian Christian ancestry. He's a goof ball but not a terror threat... unless you're a Cleveland Browns fan.
Latin America has a large population of Christian Arab immigrants, one of their descendants including among the richest men in the world and several former political leaders.
Not sure about Europe, but in the USA there assimilate as well as European immigrants. The former governor of my state (Indiana) is half Syrian Christian and half White American, Mitch Daniels (actually Esau, his father changed their name). Steve Jobs was 100% Syrian and raised by a secular American family, he did ok. There is an American Football quarterback named Johnny Manziel who is of Syrian Christian ancestry. He's a goof ball but not a terror threat... unless you're a Cleveland Browns fan.
Latin America has a large population of Christian Arab immigrants, one of their descendants including among the richest men in the world and several former political leaders.
Here in Brazil, many of the richest people in the country, and many of the most important politicians, are descendants of Christian Arab immigrants. For example: the governor of the State of Sao Paulo, and the mayor of the city of Sao Paulo (and they are from rival political parties).
The city of Fortaleza were I live is no exception. Some of the richest families here are from Christian Arab origin. In the case of the Jereissati family they are both rich and powerful in politics, since Tasso Jeireissati is a very rich businessman and was a governor of the state of Ceara and is now a senator representing the state.
Christian Arabs integrated very well into Brazilian society. And it's impossible to tell if a person in Brazil is a descendant of Christian Arabs or not, if you don't know the surname of that person is of Arab origin.
I knew or know Christian Arabs in Canada, US, and South America, and they all do well. I read in a history that many of them came to South America with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and probably to North America too, in Canada I personally knew a handful of them who came during the Lebanese civil war in the 1970s-1980s. The biggest Coptic studies center in the world is in Los Angeles, I believe.
For at least over the past two hundred years or so, it seems that western European intervention in the eastern Mediterranean has been deadly dangerous for Christians. So why would they go to Europe?
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