What are some other ethnicities you've mistaken for Armenian?

[Federate]

Re: What are some other ethnicities you've mistaken for Armenian?

Haha, good one Federate.

So, where has your avatar gone? Have the Azeris been asserting their copyright of it.

I'm not sure I think it's a forum error, the moderator image isn't showing either. Hmph!

[Mos]

Re: What are some other ethnicities you've mistaken for Armenian?

I'm not sure I think it's a forum error, the moderator image isn't showing either. Hmph!

Things are not working well on this forum....

[Armanen]

Re: What are some other ethnicities you've mistaken for Armenian?

Things are not working well on this forum....

That's an understatement.

[Haykakan]

Re: What are some other ethnicities you've mistaken for Armenian?

MUCH ADO IN TBILISI

Sunday Herald
October 2, 2011 Sunday
UK

1 Edition

As I arrived in Tbilisi, the beautiful capital city of Georgia,
on Wednesday, I knew that (as a member of the executive committee
of the International Association of Theatre Critics) I was walking
into something of a political storm. In mid-August, Robert Sturua,
the internationally acclaimed artistic director of the Rustaveli
National Theatre of Georgia, was sacked by the Georgian minster of
culture, Nikoloz Rurua, on a charge of xenophobia.

Sturua s dismissal related to a comment he made to a tabloid journalist
about the president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, in May of this
year. An outspoken critic of the government, Sturua commented that it
was possible that Saakashvili did not love Georgia because he was of
Armenian descent. It was a reprehensible comment; but one which the
director s supporters insisted reflected, not an underlying xenophobia,
but rather renowned provocateur Sturua s frustration with Saakashvili
(whom the director believes to have been hiding his Armenian heritage).

It was in this somewhat febrile context that my IATC colleagues and
I attended Thursday night s performance of Sturua s production of
Georgian dramatist Tamaz Chiladze s new play The Hunting Season,
after which we were to meet with the director himself. When we met
Sturua backstage, we found him defiant. He had, he said, been sacked
because of his political criticisms of the government. There was,
he continued, no question of him being Armenophobic; indeed, he
had great respect for the immense contribution made by Armenians to
Georgian culture over centuries.

However, I was still troubled by the comment he made back in May. I
pressed him on the matter. Did he believe that he could have phrased
his criticism of Saakashvili in a better way? Did he regret saying
what he said? He nodded vigorously. Yes, he regretted the language
he used. He harbours no xenophobic feelings towards Armenians or
anybody else.

Having arrived at the theatre worried about our meeting with Sturua,
I left relieved. If, in a short meeting, the IATC executive could
get from Sturua a statement of regret and a clear assertion of his
opposition to Armenophobia, how could the Georgian government not have
come to such an agreement with him in the three months between his
statement and his sacking? That question is posed by the statement
of support for Sturua which the IATC released on Friday.

All of which made the work on stage seem almost incidental. In the
end, Chiladze s play (a modishly postmodern, obliquely metaphorical
drama of the personal and the political) did little to enthuse.

Georgia, America and the world unfold from within the life of a
Georgian actress, apparently haunted in her flat. Disney s Snow
White And The Seven Dwarfs is juxtaposed, uncomfortably (and almost
frivolously), with images of the bodies of Nazi Holocaust victims
being shovelled into mass graves. When Prince Charming arrives,
not with a glass slipper but a training shoe, it comes as no surprise.

None of which detracts from the superb acting or the sweeping vision
of Sturua s production. Nor does it detract from the extraordinary
achievement of the third Tbilisi International Festival of Theatre,
which has, political controversy aside, established itself as a major
event in the world theatre calendar.

[cmariee]

Re: What are some other ethnicities you've mistaken for Armenian?

What about Assyrians? I have heard that Armenians and Assyrians are related historically.

[SevSpitak]

Re: What are some other ethnicities you've mistaken for Armenian?

Actually when Assyria was an independent kingdom fell for good, Armenia rose to power. Prior to this, the Armenian highlands were dominated by the Kingdom of Ararat (Urartu). Genetically, we're closest to Georgians and Azeris, and probably Assyrians as well due to their involvement in Ararat. However, I believe Assyrians and Armenians are close simply due to geographic proximity, religion (culture) and similar fate (with Western Armenians).

[ara87]

Re: What are some other ethnicities you've mistaken for Armenian?

I mistook an Iranian for an Armenian once b/c his name was basically a variant of Vahan, but he wasn't an armo at all.

As far as what people have guessed at me being the list is long

*Mexican and basically every other Hispanic/Latino culture
*Arab
*Iranian
*xxx
*Greek
*Indian
*Native American
*Italian
*Romanian
*Spanish
*French-only once b/c I had a goatee and the stoner that told me this said that "all french people have goatees"

[yerazhishda]

Re: What are some other ethnicities you've mistaken for Armenian?

To quote some of my male friends, "es lriv verjn er", Mos jan! ... Duuuddeeee~!

While it's true that some Azeris look a bit like us, I can usually tell them apart by that wild look in their eyes-- Armenians have a different look in their eyes. (..and I'm not even being biased, it's just truth based on my own experience )

Azeris are not looking like Armenian peoples. Asi ban er eli sut.

[retro]

Re: What are some other ethnicities you've mistaken for Armenian?

Actually when Assyria was an independent kingdom fell for good, Armenia rose to power. Prior to this, the Armenian highlands were dominated by the Kingdom of Ararat (Urartu). Genetically, we're closest to Georgians and Azeris, and probably Assyrians as well due to their involvement in Ararat. However, I believe Assyrians and Armenians are close simply due to geographic proximity, religion (culture) and similar fate (with Western Armenians).

Genetically Armenians are Western Asians and cluster with Iranians. Armenians are a intermediate group between Assyrians, Anatolian Turks/Kurds and Caucasians.

[UrMistake]

Re: What are some other ethnicities you've mistaken for Armenian?

Genetically Armenians are Western Asians and cluster with Iranians. Armenians are a intermediate group between Assyrians, Anatolian Turks/Kurds and Caucasians.

The biggest bullxxxx i ever seen in a forum ,first of all there were no Anatolian turks or kurds when we ruled the land , is this man look like asian too you?

turks have european genes cause they fuc kcin stole them from us and the other europeans that lived under there boots learn some history ffs.