I have never heard someone call themselves Aramaean. 

You people overseas think you have it all figured out. You leave your people and really forget who you are. Us Kurds call these people Assyrian and know that they are the same people call themselves Chaldean. Where do you get Aramaean? They don't even call the language that. I hear them say Sureet. To me that sounds like Syria which everyone in the middle east knows is based on the great Assyrian Empire. Some people overseas mess everything up for the people back home because they with their so called education are actually less educated on their people because they're hearing their history from an outside source who only read about it and never witnessed it.