Theophilius Wrote:It was God who has kept the attempts at genocide from succeeding.
genocide |ˈjenəˌsīd|
noun
the deliberate killing of a large group of people, esp. those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
Genocide does not suggest that they were extinct by said method. A homicide is a targeted killing of a human... just as a genocide is a targeted killing of a race. The 'Holocaust' was genocide, among other fun things.
For the genocide to have not succeeded, it would have had to be as a failed pesticide: ineffective. Instead, the 'Holocaust' killed a massive quantity of 'Jews' (among other people)... as a strong pesticide might kill a swarm of mosquitos.
Quote:But the Greeks have had a nation of their own. The Jews have been scattered among other nations where they were outsiders. Anyone in that position would face the temptation to become assimilated into the dominant culture to make life easier.
So one needs a nation to maintain their national identity? I notice that many peoples and cultures have been "scattered about", no longer with much collective power... I call these 'also-rans'. Not anyone in such a position faces temptation to assimilate... but it is often those who do so when faced with (perhaps) an unbeatable enemy that survive.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
