#1520: Fw: Re Syrians, elatriye (fwd)

[Robert Corbett <bcorbett@netcom.com>]

From: Max Blanchet <MaxBlanchet@worldnet.att.net>

| The "levantins" who came to Haiti all did so at about
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| the turn of the century from Syria, a province of the
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| then-crumbling Ottoman empire.
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| Thus, the Haitian "appelation" is correct!
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| In Latin America, the same people are known as the
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| "Turcos." One might also argue that for the same reason

l this "appelation" is also correct.
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| To the best of my recollections, the practice of "boule jwif"
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| had nothing to do with the Syrians of Haiti!
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