"White People"

[ArmenianKid]

she said race not culture

[Anonymouse]

By the way, for the record, lavash is of Armenian origin.

[ArmoBarbi]

"white" is not a "race" it is a color - and it does not describe most Armenians I know - outside of an occasional Albino and perhaps if its found that Micheal Jackson is the bastard son of Cher....

As I have said already, "white" is the term used by the very people we were questioning. We know what "white" means in this country, as do you. Stop coming back to this meaningless point. It has nothing to do with the issue at hand.

[Anonymouse]

she said race not culture

Culture is a product of race because different peoples have created different cultures. There is no other way around it.

[ArmenianKid]

we all know what 'white' means i think he trys to start arguements

[ArmoBarbi]

Are you really discounting food as a measuring stick for culture? ....guess why its me who has the Anthropology degree and not yourself...

***As an Anthropologist, you should especially know the difference between RACE and CULTURE. I used the word "race", putting words into my mouth will not help you win an argument. Sorry

Thats all I have to say about that. lol

[ArmoBarbi]

Culture is a product of race because different peoples have created different cultures. There is no other way around it.

While culture and race are connected terms, they are not interchangable in every given context.

[winoman]

Rat - there you go attempting to label people again - so now your definition of an Armenian is someone who has been there? Hardly...my family for generations back has lived in Anatolia - what need would they have to check in at the Yerevan Sheraton or such to prove that they were Armenian. And this is so typical of you - no argument other then ad homenim. And accusing me (or anyone else) of making off topic (or meaningless) posts in a thread? You of all people shouldn't be throwing those stones.

So you have green eyes and fair skin - OK - I guess that why they let you join the Hitler youth (oh I'm sorry - I assume that you dye your hair blond as well...now click those heels together smartly...)...however in my book you are not the typical Armenian. I've been around quite a few - and while there is certainly a range of looks - the archtype fits much more closely into the Middle Eastern type of genotype then it does European. I would argue that no one (not even the kid) would fail to pick out the average Armenian in a line up consisting of "germans italians and english" where in a similar line up of Persians, Iraqis and Jews we might be quite a bit more challenged.

[winoman]

***As an Anthropologist, you should especially know the difference between RACE and CULTURE. I used the word "race", putting words into my mouth will not help you win an argument. Sorry

Thats all I have to say about that. lol

For the most part - race is a meaningless designation - particualrly in reference to those - like ourselves who manifest characteristics that cross such somewhat arbitrary boundaries. Thus culture is what is left that has any meaning. And there is no such thing as "white culture" - excepting of course when one is making yoghurt...

[Anonymouse]

Rat - there you go attempting to label people again - so now your definition of an Armenian is someone who has been there? Hardly...my family for generations back has lived in Anatolia - what need would they have to check in at the Yerevan Sheraton or such to prove that they were Armenian. And this is so typical of you - no argument other then ad homenim. And accusing me (or anyone else) of making off topic (or meaningless) posts in a thread? You of all people shouldn't be throwing those stones.

So you have green eyes and fair skin - OK - I guess that why they let you join the Hitler youth (oh I'm sorry - I assume that you dye your hair blond as well...now click those heels together smartly...)...however in my book you are not the typical Armenian. I've been around quite a few - and while there is certainly a range of looks - the archtype fits much more closely into the Middle Eastern type of genotype then it does European. I would argue that no one (not even the kid) would fail to pick out the average Armenian in a line up consisting of "germans italians and english" where in a similar line up of Persians, Iraqis and Jews we might be quite a bit more challenged.

No I did not say that the prerequisite for being Armenian means you have to be there. I only said that you have not been there, and from what I understood in the past, you weren't Armenian. Why are you taking that as an ad homenim.

And furthermore, I don't know about you but my "Armenian sensors" are very sharp and I have made and continue to make the sharpest distinctions between Armenians, Persians, and Jews (Iraqis are not a people, they contian Arabs and Kurds, and other minorities since Iraq is simply a name given when Britain cut it up as such) since in my school all three of them flourish. Also, I can make the distinction between Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans. All this is because of me being "racially conscious".