All this doesn't pose any problem for me and you. When we meet a foreigner we say 'Hi, I'm Swedish'. At the Swedish residents' registration offices they are regarded as Turks or Iranians or stateless people though they identify themselves as Assyrians. Music holds a special position. It is something easy to gather around.
Dancing creates social community.
Song texts express common dreams. However, music also marks boundaries, Dan Lundberg says. Instead of describing who one is, one talks about who one is not. Assyrians are stressing that their music is not Arabic and not Turkish. When the Assyrian star Linda George comes from USA to sing in Sweden she is accompanied by Assyrian musicians who live here.