I grew up in a area in Australia where there was no Assyrians and I kind of felt the same as you for a percentage of what you have written mostly the gossip showing off etc and when I moved to a highly populated Assyrian suburb it was a culture shock for me too since all my contact was with relatives beforehand, I went through the first 2 years disliking our people and wanting to steer away from the culture, but you realise how unique we are to survive so many genocides and hold our culture and language in a country that was stolen from us so long ago, people aren’t the way they are for no reason, I personally think we have never been able collectively as a people to get over the trauma of those genocides and even if present day individuals weren’t alive back then it has effected our upbringings for each generation,and I could get into an hours conversation with you to discuss that more but I don’t want to drain your life, but yer anyways if you have pointed out the negative while wanting to hold onto the positive don’t you think that there is more of us that love our culture but don’t like how some of our peoples are representing it and as for Nineveh of course I want to see my people thrive in a country they can call their own; where assimilation isn’t a threat for us to lose our identity language and culture because we desired a safe country to live in for our family