But you won’t deny that all these, excepting the Russians, share in some common Middle Eastern culture. It is not just food, it is how people interact, celebrate, conduct the family affairs. I have been to a few places in the Balkans and to Armenia and I could see it plainly: it is, exactly, cultural affinity, without, of course, uniformity.
“But you won’t deny that all these, excepting the Russians, share in some common Middle Eastern culture.”
Caught me didn’t you! :) We are, of course, all Levantines!