lebanon

The haven of the remains of Middle-eastern christianity,created out of the French province of Syria to cater for Christian needs but is now rapidly being pushed back towards Islamic domination. A country that wants to be everything it is not, believes its European, believes its rich, believes plastic surgery makes you beautiful, but scratch the surface and you'll find the Arab country the lebanese so painfully try to hide. Food is great but attempts to sell it as 'lebanese food' are foolish, it is exactly the same as Syrian food and strongly linked to Greek and Turkish food for that matter. Full of people that deny their Arab heritage and refuse to speak anything but English and French, as if they would rather be ruled by colonial powers than stamp their own inherited identity on the country.