Are Armenians white????

[yerazhishda]

Re: Are Armenians white????

I don't think you understood what I'm saying. Armenians are Armenian. I couldn't care less what aryan nazi germans think, what xxxish egotistical maniacs think, what muslim extremists think, what uncultured redneck americans think, I am who I am; Armenian.

As idiotic as trying to classify Armenians in this way may be...the idiot Armenians that try and justify their "whiteness" are even bigger idiots in my opinion. Or xxxx it, lets all just base our opinions of each other on what happened thousands of years ago, much of which isn't even well documented.....or actually no lets not.

We're our own people, we do our own thing, have our own values, and are generally not followers. Some of us are darker than your asian nipple, most of us are whiter than your toilet bowl, either way we're obviously not apart of the masses considering the percentage of us that are able to do extraordinary things. So the few that actually start and continue with these stupid discussions... just take a step back, understand yourself, and expend your energy on something greater.

This is all coming from the pasty-est light brown haired 100% Yerevantsi Armenian you can think of.

Bravo! Comparing skin tone/eye color/hair color and claiming one is inherently more Armenian than the other just shows the insecurity of the person suring it. We are Caucasian, sure. But before we are "white" or "caucasian" or whatever definition you want to use, we are Armenian.

[KanadaHye]

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Armenians are a diverse people with a history and culture that's second to none. Skin tone isn't a requirement, but the Armenian spirit is.

[womble]

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Armenians are related to everybody. Don't you know where Noah lived?

[freakyfreaky]

Re: Are Armenians white????

Stupidity in action is always funny but you don't worry. I see this trend of many Armenians buying property in Armenia hopefully one day all of them will return where they belong. They weren't buying homes in the Soviet times because the future was uncertain, they didn't know what was gonna happen. In fact because of the cold war many people thought the USSR or the USA was gonna be nuked. But now, we have an independent country and many people are thinking of returning home.

More people are leaving Armenian then staying. Doh!!! Largest migration since 2001.

http://www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/?nid=28385

23 thousand people left Armenia in 2008
28.01.2009 21:18 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Substantial increase in migration was fixed in 2008, according to the migration agency at the RA ministry of territorial administration.

The Armenian state border was crossed 2 mln 817 thousand times last year. The number of leaving people exceeded the number of those arriving with 23 059.

It has been the worst index since 2001 when 60 thousand people left the republic. At that, the largest human drain was fixed in March-April, after the tragic events that followed the February presidential election.

It’s also reported that 600 thousand people visited Armenia as tourists. They were mostly Armenians from the United States, France, Georgia and Iran.

[Sarkis]

Re: Are Armenians white????

Armenians share common ancestry in the Middle East, most notably Anatolian, Turks, Kurds and xxxs. xxxs are related more closely to the groups of the northern Fertile Crescent than their Arab neighbors to the south. But Arabs also still share this founder gene. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...=&pagewanted=1

Armenians are part of the Middle East. http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v.../5201869a.html

Here, you can read in the abstract that Armenians are more closely related to their Caucasian neighbors than their respective linguistic groups. mtDNA groups are more closely related to Europe than the Near East but Y-chromosomes show their is more of an influence from the Near East than Europe. http://www.eva.mpg.de/genetics/pdf/Y-paper.pdf

[merhayrenik]

Re: Are Armenians white????

Armenians share common ancestry in the Middle East, most notably Anatolian, Turks, Kurds and xxxs. xxxs are related more closely to the groups of the northern Fertile Crescent than their Arab neighbors to the south. But Arabs also still share this founder gene. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...=&pagewanted=1

Armenians are part of the Middle East. http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v.../5201869a.html

Here, you can read in the abstract that Armenians are more closely related to their Caucasian neighbors than their respective linguistic groups. mtDNA groups are more closely related to Europe than the Near East but Y-chromosomes show their is more of an influence from the Near East than Europe. http://www.eva.mpg.de/genetics/pdf/Y-paper.pdf

No we don't.

[Anoush]

Re: Are Armenians white????

No we don't.

I agree with you merhayrenik. I also agree with ddd, they call us Armenians.

Our dna y-chromosomes whaaaaaatever it's baloney.


We are Armenians unlike any other nationality in the world!!!!!

[jgk3]

Re: Are Armenians white????

sorry guys, but it is our civilization that is distinct from those present now in the Middle East. Our genes share ancestry with most of the northern Middle East, which is nothing to be ashamed of. It is the civilization that we create that transcends blood, not vice versa.

We have our own flavour/type though as descendants of Armenian Highlanders, be assured of that.

[Sarkis]

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ok merhayrenik, I'd like to see if you have any evidence to back up your viewpoint and Anoush, I'd like to see your argument as well, dismissing scientific evidence isn't always a smart thing to do, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. From what I've seen, we're from Middle East, please make a strong argument against or for it, or don't talk at all.

[Armanen]

Re: Are Armenians white????

ok merhayrenik, I'd like to see if you have any evidence to back up your viewpoint and Anoush, I'd like to see your argument as well, dismissing scientific evidence isn't always a smart thing to do, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. From what I've seen, we're from Middle East, please make a strong argument against or for it, or don't talk at all.

There is plenty of good posts on this topic within this thread and in other threads found on this forum. Please stop using the political term 'middle east' and use the geographic term Near East.

There are a number of studies on this issue and many theories, don't just look at one or two and then run with it.