Are lebanese snobbish?

Question

im working here in riyadh KSA. i was given a warning that i should be careful in dealing with lebanese people here coz theyre difficult to deal with and naturally snobbish who always think that theyre the most intelligent person among arabs? was there any basis or thruth to this? for my own experience though its quite true coz i had 1 lebanese colleague before whos kinda snobbish but im still trying to convince myself that not all lebanese are like this. thanks for your answers...

Answer 1

of course you cannotgeneralize

in every group u will have ur humble and your snobbish people

depends on the person and their character not their nationality

lebanese are people just like the rest of us

Answer 2

(In general, i'm not generalizing) but focusing on looks, Intellect, Social class, & appearances do not cancel the fact they have a good heart, are hard workers, & perfectionists! They focus of going places & achieving more than is required. They have spread around the world & showed amazing results because they work their asses off & that's why they may seem difficult but have you really tried sitting with one outside work? You can see from this category the love we hold to non-lebanese freinds. Does that make us less hard to work with?! See it's irrelevant. Don't Judge & generalize, give yourself a chance & You'll be amazed, i guarantee you ;)

Answer 3

h**l yeah, and as well we should be! WERE LEBANESE!!!!

JK JK im just kidding. dude to be honest with you us lebanese are very humble. We are very welcoming and treat anyone like family. When you see some come by just be friendly with them and they'll return the same.

btw the person who told you that about us is very ignorant.

Answer 4

Killface just earned my respect as one lebanese to another. Finally a lebanese told the truth. He is correct, the lebanese are among the most s****. cultures on earth. Dont try to convince yourself that they arent s****. because it would be a lie. When u come to the realization that most of them are s****. you will know how to better handle them.

This is why i try my best to keep a distance from them but my parents are lebanese(from the old generation who had more respect and love for others and were humble) and i love my parents more than anything on this earth.

God bless you luv_angel as you are one of the few that have teh guts to speak the truth. I too was in lebanon a few times and i saw teh exact same thing. Dont ever change yourself girl, the lebanese culture need more humble people like u not like queen.

Answer 5

Not all are snobs. There are the ones who are kind and humble.  But I will admit most of us lebanese are snob.  When i went to lebanon last year, for the first time, I was shocked at how much of snobs some of them are, specially the ones who hang around the richer areas.  

It seems as thought money, class, and fashion has taken over their lives and the don't really know what real life is.

Answer 6

if by "snobbish" you mean physically and mentally superior & well endowed, then yes.

Answer 7

yes they are.

i hate dealing with them cause seriously they DO think they are gods and you owe then everything.

i worked at a produce store and EVERY family that came in wanted a giant discount and you were always wrong in everything even though you worked there...

i really wanted to strangle them.

no other race did this.

lol....

mind you these are the ppl straight outta lebanon with accents and the traditional clothes...

the lebs born here are more americanized and wayyyyyy nicer.  :D

Answer 8

well you may be right and this is the reason: Lebanon before 1975 was "the Switzerland in the east" --> Lebanon was the first country ( tourism, culture, trading,.....) in the Middle East and the arab world

then came the Lebanese war in 1975 and lasted till 1990 and this had a really negative result to Lebanon and Lebanese : 1*  Lebanon was "totally" destructed 2* Tourism in this period and until now has decreased 3* The trading relations were stopped 4* Lebanon lost his cultural place in the ME and the Arab world

In the late 1990s, the golf countries have had a great revolution and many Lebanese went to work there !! and they naturally react snobbishly because it isn't easy to see that "GLORY" which was used to be in your country in another country!

N.B :  Not all Lebanese are the same and I think if you sit and talk with a Lebanese you will change your mind!!!

Answer 9

I agree with you, some of them appear to be snobbish but most of us are not...try and get to know us, stick around and you might change your mind

Answer 10

Not at all, you might think they are but the truth is that they are just naturally superior.

Edit: LOOOOOOOOOL, don't you love it how virgin guy is always conveniently present to answer these questions?

It's like he's sitting there for weeks, watching us day after day and conveniently drops in at the right moment to give us the same old same old story about the older Lebanese generation..

Answer 11

Coming from a 100% Lebanese guy, h**l YEA.. I mean, come on were Lebanese how could we not be full of ourselves.

Answer 12

Typcial Saudi's hating on Lebanese as usual.

But yea some Lebanese are snobbish and full of themselves.

Answer 13

You should judge the person based on their character not their nationality. Most Lebanese people are among the warmest people you may meet. Also remember that there are snobs from every country....

Answer 14

i know many won't like to admit this, but as a lebanese myself i really do think we are snobbish people in general, ofcourse not everyone is like that, but saying were not would be unrealistic. really many lebanese tend to think theyre better than most arabs and hate being associated with them, its sad but its the truth.....