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Re: Armenian Georgian Relations
Don't you realise that all these sort of things make Georgia appear to be a very silly, imature country?
This forum's resident extremists, those like Mos, are widespread in Armenia - and they have their exact equivalents in Georgia. But to counter their positions there exists a whole established field of Armenian Studies. However, no such thing exists in Georgia or for Georgia, and no legitimate academics will now touch your country because it is so tainted with propaganda production.
I'll give you an example. Georgia's inferiority complex went into overdrive at the end of the 1990s when they discovered that, in connection with Armenia's traditional 1700th anniversary of its conversion to Christianity, several important exhibitions of Armenian Art were to be staged in various world capitals, including Paris and London. So they decided to produce their own "National Treasures of Georgia" exhibition. However, the exhibition ended up being so obvously propagandistic, with everything found inside the territorial limits of modern Georgia being labeled as "Georgian", with no other cultures mentioned, and with no context to the objects given (since that would mean mentioning Armenia and other neighbouring cultures) that no museum or gallery took up the offer to host the exhibition. A glossy hardback book was also produced, containing various articles by Georgian and non-Georgian authors. Those written by the Georgians are pure propaganda, and the non-Georgian authors disowned the book after their articles were edited and rewritten without permission to remove references to Armenia and make everything more "Georgia-centric". (See here http://www.hist.unibe.ch/unibe/philh...n-rapp_ger.pdf - quote: 1999 “Medieval Christian Georgia (c. 330-c. 1450),” in National Treasures of Georgia, Ori Z. Soltes ed. London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 1999. Pp. 84-92. NB: highly re-edited without my permission.)
Your country has to stop behaving like a kid with a more successful big brother, it has to grow up, go its own way, and stop being obsessed about living in Armenia's cultural and historical shadow.
Originally posted by diaukhi
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nekresi I century
davatis stela IV century
as you see georgian alphabet is older than yours
you buil cities? tbilisi? old tbilisi buillt by arabs
which churhces are georgianized? what about georian churches in anisi and lore( akhtala, qoberi, ardvi, sanini and others?
armenians are very poor people. you have complex because you know that georgia is more ancient than you desert country. vardan mamikonian was chan ( laz) first armenian kingdomwas in 190 BC and colchis was 13 century bc and iberia was 5 century bc somxebo dabrundid balkanebze
davatis stela IV century
as you see georgian alphabet is older than yours
you buil cities? tbilisi? old tbilisi buillt by arabs
which churhces are georgianized? what about georian churches in anisi and lore( akhtala, qoberi, ardvi, sanini and others?
armenians are very poor people. you have complex because you know that georgia is more ancient than you desert country. vardan mamikonian was chan ( laz) first armenian kingdomwas in 190 BC and colchis was 13 century bc and iberia was 5 century bc somxebo dabrundid balkanebze
This forum's resident extremists, those like Mos, are widespread in Armenia - and they have their exact equivalents in Georgia. But to counter their positions there exists a whole established field of Armenian Studies. However, no such thing exists in Georgia or for Georgia, and no legitimate academics will now touch your country because it is so tainted with propaganda production.
I'll give you an example. Georgia's inferiority complex went into overdrive at the end of the 1990s when they discovered that, in connection with Armenia's traditional 1700th anniversary of its conversion to Christianity, several important exhibitions of Armenian Art were to be staged in various world capitals, including Paris and London. So they decided to produce their own "National Treasures of Georgia" exhibition. However, the exhibition ended up being so obvously propagandistic, with everything found inside the territorial limits of modern Georgia being labeled as "Georgian", with no other cultures mentioned, and with no context to the objects given (since that would mean mentioning Armenia and other neighbouring cultures) that no museum or gallery took up the offer to host the exhibition. A glossy hardback book was also produced, containing various articles by Georgian and non-Georgian authors. Those written by the Georgians are pure propaganda, and the non-Georgian authors disowned the book after their articles were edited and rewritten without permission to remove references to Armenia and make everything more "Georgia-centric". (See here http://www.hist.unibe.ch/unibe/philh...n-rapp_ger.pdf - quote: 1999 “Medieval Christian Georgia (c. 330-c. 1450),” in National Treasures of Georgia, Ori Z. Soltes ed. London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 1999. Pp. 84-92. NB: highly re-edited without my permission.)
Your country has to stop behaving like a kid with a more successful big brother, it has to grow up, go its own way, and stop being obsessed about living in Armenia's cultural and historical shadow.
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