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> They're suave arsim (how else can you blend in Beirut or Tehran).

To save others looking up what 'suave arsim' meant:

1. suave -- a normal English the word for charming/confident

2. "arsim" [1] -- apparently a former ethnic slur for Mizrahi Jews [2] now repurposed to mean crude, loud and brash (which sound to me like the equivalent of the British slang term 'chav').

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_(slang)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizrahi_Jews

parent someperson 1 year ago

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