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Stony Stevenson's avatar

Very interesting. I thought it worth mentioning that more Lebanese people live in Brazil than Lebanon. I can't think of any other example of a diasporic population in one country that outnumbers its home country's population - probably not a good sign of the long-term functionality of said country.

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Frankly, one wonders whether the best move after the end of WWI would have been to simply turn the Christian--and possibly Druze--parts of Lebanon and Syria into an overseas department of France, similar to northern Algeria, except much more sustainable due to greater religious similarities and a much smaller total population. Would that have been such a bad outcome for the Christian--and possibly Druze--Lebanese?

The rest of Lebanon could have been annexed to Syria.

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