Re: Armenia for Armenians
The divide has been quite longer than 100 years (it's actually 70 for USSR) my friend, there has been two (and later three to four) Armenias since the Byzantines and Persians decided to divide us in half centuries ago. To make the divide worse, one side lived under Ottoman yoke while the other lived in Russian yoke later on. Yet time and time again we have resisted this kind of separation and in 1918, 200 000 (if not more) "Western" Armenians settled in the DRA as refugees and "integrated" well, especially in political life (ex: General Andranik, Aram Manukyan etc.) Those refugees decendents can still be found in Armenian political life, such as former PM Andranik Margaryan whose family were refugees from Sasoun during the AG. Even new generations such as Raffi Hovhanissian, who served as Armenia's first FM, can be found in Armenia.
No doubt about it you need an understanding of the country in order to be part of its system, it's the rule for all countries. I doubt anyone will serve in a Senate in the scenario where they have been to Armenia once or twice and decide to run lol. You'll need dual citizenship probably too, anyway. Can't speak for everyone but i'm pretty sure the majority want the old Soviet culture to disappear and it is fading away with the rise of a new generation. Like I said, the Diaspora is one way to speed this slow process up. Anyway, all the talk about making this and that decision is irrelevant, I already pointed out that an upper house has a lot of restrictions and does not have much say over the much more powerful lower house.
To get rid of this view of "outsider" we must stop cultivating this talk about differences and find common ground and I can assure you that we are much more similar than we think. Whether Western Armenians call it Kebab or Eastern Armenians call it Khorovats, it's still the same great meat
Originally posted by Mos
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No doubt about it you need an understanding of the country in order to be part of its system, it's the rule for all countries. I doubt anyone will serve in a Senate in the scenario where they have been to Armenia once or twice and decide to run lol. You'll need dual citizenship probably too, anyway. Can't speak for everyone but i'm pretty sure the majority want the old Soviet culture to disappear and it is fading away with the rise of a new generation. Like I said, the Diaspora is one way to speed this slow process up. Anyway, all the talk about making this and that decision is irrelevant, I already pointed out that an upper house has a lot of restrictions and does not have much say over the much more powerful lower house.
To get rid of this view of "outsider" we must stop cultivating this talk about differences and find common ground and I can assure you that we are much more similar than we think. Whether Western Armenians call it Kebab or Eastern Armenians call it Khorovats, it's still the same great meat
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