Oh language. Oh our minds. Another tangent. Here we have the word "minority" as reflected upon in Jordan.
In Goa we took on too many foreign notions, and what we are is a direct result of many hurst and rejections: intra and infra. Heck even ultra! A few of us could write on what we lost, but kept thinking we were gaining. But others may think on such matters. The onslaughts that beset us is the process of dilution of what was not quite, but could have been. *From, * *Pope Francis' Holy Land Visit: Spotlight on Christians in Jordan * *http://time.com/110595/pope-francis-holy-land-visit-spotlight-on-christians-in-jordan/ <http://time.com/110595/pope-francis-holy-land-visit-spotlight-on-christians-in-jordan/>* *1) **Christians are not a minority. *Though Christians make up between 3-6% of Jordan's population, Muslims and Christians alike reject the term 'minority' to describe the community. In Arabic, the word does not simply connote 'a smaller number' but 'a lesser value,' and while Christians are clearly smaller in number than Muslims here, they have been historically viewed as an integral, inseparable part of society. According to Wafa Goussous of the Middle East Council of Churches, before the 1970s no one used the word 'minority' to describe Christians. To consciously identify a person based on his religion was a foreign concept in an Arab culture where Christianity and Islam were both unquestioned components. + + + vjp
