Expatriate culture

The Wikipedia page on the Lebanese diaspora is the one that, among those on diasporas, displays the longest list of personalities who have distinguished themselves in their host country.

This is probably not a coincidence, as the Lebanese are enterprising by nature and make real efforts to integrate.

They become a mixture of everything, they really integrate but keep their roots: the Lebanese take grafts from the countries they are in, but never fully integrate. The culture of the Lebanese community in each country is, therefore, a clever mix between the culture of the host country and the roots of the Lebanese culture of origin.

Somewhere, the Lebanese feel mostly citizens of the world. This is understandable: there are 13 million Lebanese immigrants abroad for only 6 million Lebanese actually living in Lebanon.

As the ties with the country often remain strong, it happens that when one lives to work abroad, one may have a crisis and want to return to Lebanon to find one's roots. This is particularly true for some Lebanese who live very far away and who do not have the opportunity, unlike Lebanese emigrants living in France, to regularly return to Lebanon.