I love that Arabic allows each Arabic-speaking people to have their own native dialect (or dialects), without losing the cross-regional connection of Standard Arabic / Fus7a. It's actually a great blessing. We are allowed two identities - who said we have to have only one?
Every Arabic speaking people should be proud of their local dialect, it represents layers upon layers of their history, it expresses their heart and soul. There's nothing wrong with being both proud of your local context and aware of your regional/wider identity.
And I didn't really appreciate this until I moved to Europe, where I saw how the multitude of languages impedes the creation of a consolidated, wider public sphere. But that's a topic for another conversation.
