Hello my fellow Armenians. My name is Tigran(17 years old) and I was born and raised in Yerevan.
Unfortunately, I currently live in Southern California, Burbank. Now I'm not sure what percentage of you live in Glendale or So-Cal, but to live in this region is absolutely EMBARRASSING. The youth know absolutely NOTHING about Armenia, Armenian history, or Armenian affairs. Now I can tolerate ignorance, but they show no interest in their own history either.
On April 24, 2009, while most of us were marching at Hollywood or at Wilshire Blvd, hundreds of Armenian teens were at Six Flags Magic Mountain, or at Disneyland! Hey, it's a holiday isn't it? Lets celebrate by showing how disrespectful one can be! When I heard people talking about going to parties or theme parks on friday, I was dumbfounded. How can one be so stupid I wondered. But then I remembered, this is Glendale. Where 80% of Armenian teens do not know how to write Armenian, and where none of them plan on going back to live in Armenia.
If one judges the entire Armenian race by having only Glendales' Armenian population to judge, they would think we are a race of stupid, materialistic, ignorant, criminal minded, disrespectful, and uneducated punks. And what bothers me the most is that if things continue the way they are now, we are going to have a stateless diaspora, neither American nor Armenian. Most of the people, already can not read/write Armenian, and the ones that miraculously do, do not plan to teach their children, let alone move back. This, will be the downfall of the already suffering diaspora.
I plan on moving out of this wretched area as soon as possible. I plan on moving back to Armenia the moment I can, to serve in the Army and to live there, because at the rate the population is decreasing there will be nobody left in 100 years. So I ask anybody reading to please, move back when you can.
Anybody else share my thoughts?
Unfortunately, I currently live in Southern California, Burbank. Now I'm not sure what percentage of you live in Glendale or So-Cal, but to live in this region is absolutely EMBARRASSING. The youth know absolutely NOTHING about Armenia, Armenian history, or Armenian affairs. Now I can tolerate ignorance, but they show no interest in their own history either.
On April 24, 2009, while most of us were marching at Hollywood or at Wilshire Blvd, hundreds of Armenian teens were at Six Flags Magic Mountain, or at Disneyland! Hey, it's a holiday isn't it? Lets celebrate by showing how disrespectful one can be! When I heard people talking about going to parties or theme parks on friday, I was dumbfounded. How can one be so stupid I wondered. But then I remembered, this is Glendale. Where 80% of Armenian teens do not know how to write Armenian, and where none of them plan on going back to live in Armenia.
If one judges the entire Armenian race by having only Glendales' Armenian population to judge, they would think we are a race of stupid, materialistic, ignorant, criminal minded, disrespectful, and uneducated punks. And what bothers me the most is that if things continue the way they are now, we are going to have a stateless diaspora, neither American nor Armenian. Most of the people, already can not read/write Armenian, and the ones that miraculously do, do not plan to teach their children, let alone move back. This, will be the downfall of the already suffering diaspora.
I plan on moving out of this wretched area as soon as possible. I plan on moving back to Armenia the moment I can, to serve in the Army and to live there, because at the rate the population is decreasing there will be nobody left in 100 years. So I ask anybody reading to please, move back when you can.
Anybody else share my thoughts?
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