Yes that is true particularly in my case. Politically I never had a problem. I was always an Arab, and have been like that not even as a Lebanese or a Syrian. I always felt like an Arab. It makes no difference to me.
Children learn language at school and at home.
I didn't speak Arabic neither at home nor in the school. I grew up knowing French. I also speak Greek and Turkish, because my mother was Greek from Turkey and my father was an Arab in the Ottoman Empire. So, I knew these two languages, but I never learned them in school. Because I feel I am an Arab, I am a woman, and I am a person in the 20th Century, and hopefully the 21st Century.