[za3faran]

> specially the Middle East is a very ancient civilization with a tradition of backstabbing and betrayal going deep into the Antiquity.

As a "Middle Easterner" (a colonialist term by the way), I didn't realize that the "Middle East" was one conglomerate culture. Thank you for teaching me about my history /s

[inglor_cz]

Civilization is an umbrella term that usually covers multiple cultures.

We also speak of Western civilization, even though it doesn't equal to one conglomerate culture either.

As for 'colonialist' term ... sigh, do I care how people call Europe on Arabic or Turkish forums? Every cultural region has some lingo that reflects its history.

'Europe' itself is a Phoenician word that means "country of sunset". From their perspective, it was. Hereby I am forgiving old Phoenician colonialists (and they indeed colonized much of the Mediterranean) for naming some continent according to their local perspective. That is what people tend to do.

[za3faran]

So your statement is a tautology. You'll find good and bad people in any group; there's nothing inherent in "middle eastern civilization" that promotes backstabbing, and in fact you'll find the opposite.

[inglor_cz]

Not in the context of the comment I was reacting upon, which seems to be based in the Susan Sontag view of the West.