Blue: Druze Yellow: Greek Orthodox Brown: Syriac Orthodox Red: Maronite Dark purple: Roman Catholic Light purple: Evangelical Light Orange: Armenian Orthodox Light Yellow: Armenian Catholic The dominant ethnic group is Arab, but also other groups such as Armenians and Kurds are treated equally and enjoys full freedom and representation. Religious and ethnic divisions that is represented at political, economic, cultural, and other levels • At political level: The political system guarantees the equal and proportional representations of sects based on equal division between Muslims and Christians. In what is known as the quota system or the power sharing agreement. For example: The President is a Christian Maronite, Speaker of the Parliament is a Shite Muslim, and the Prime Minsiter is a Sunni Muslim. This division can be reflected in all bureaucratic positions from ministries, state institutions, security, etc… and of course proportional to each sect according to its number. For example Commander of the Army: Maronite Deputy commander of the Army: Druze Commander of the police: Sunni Deputy PM: Greek Orthodox Deputy Speaker of the parliament: Greek Catholic The Cabinet is also divided equally between Christians and Muslim with fair proportional representations of sects according to their number. • At economic level: There is no discrimination against any sect, all sects have their own businesses at national level and operates freely. There is no advantage of one sect over another in laws, practices, or traditions. • At religious and cultural levels: There is utmost freedom for all sects to freely practice their faith and freely build their religious sites. The country celebrates all religious celebrations (official holidays) of all sects: for example: Lebanese celebrates ytwo Easter vacations: one for the orthodox and one for the Catholic (and you can iimagine the number of public holidays that exist in this country). 2