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Hanna-Attisha Personal History - Self-identity

Hanna-Attisha self-identifies as Iraqi-American. Chaldean/Assyrian nationalists have been changing her page to delete Iraqi-American in her personal history and change it to Assyrian. Per wiki guidelines, a living person's self-identity is controlling. Two articles discuss Hanna-Attisha self-identifying as Iraqi-American:

http://muslimgirl.com/19283/interview-dr-hanna-attisha-whistleblower-flint-water-scandal/

http://www.arabamericannews.com/news/news/id_11813/rp_0/act_print/rf_1/Print.html

In the Arab-American News article, Hanna-Attisha herself criticized Chaldean/Assyrian nationalists in a comment to an article describing her as Iraqi-American:

"I am Arabic and Chaldean and Iraqi and American and a woman and doctor and a mom and a wife and many other things," Hanna-Attisha wrote in a comment. "This is how I myself and I am proud of all of those identities. This is not a time to divide our cultures, rather a time to come together — especially with so much intolerance and hate spewing from loud mouths."

In the Muslim Girl article Hanna-Attisha describes her identity as follows:

"[W]e’re Chaldean, which is Iraqi Christian, but I identify myself as just Iraqi American. I was very much raised Arab; I speak Arabic, we eat Arabic food, but we don’t really practice anything. I really believe in all religions — I believe there’s beauty in all religions, and I can’t say one is better than the other." — Preceding unsigned comment added by HappyPenguinista (talk • contribs) 04:48, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]