sebastian brock is talking about the disappearance of a specific ethnic aramean race which is true but he didn't say that the mixed raced descendants didn't call themselves arameans how many nations on this earth are actually of pure race the same thing happened when the arab muslims invaded the levant mesopotamia and north africa and intermingled with the local nations e g berbers jews arameans black people copts etc after several hundreds of years the arabs were no longer able to distinguish between pure arabs and mixed race arabs however their descendants are linguistic and cultural arabs or do modern egyptians syrians tunisians don't consider themselves as ethnic arabs are the modern turks a specific ethnic race an ethnicity is not only based on genes if this is that what you mean you're definitely not simply linguistic aramaeanized assyrians because of the physical presence of the arameans in mesopotamia and thus in assyria history repeats