What cultural traits do Armenians share?

[winoman]

I find the use of word "Caucasian" ridiculous. Especially by Americans and Asians, they use it to mean "northern Euro look". Russians use it for exactly opposite - meaning dark skin, big nose, thick eyebrows (see my avatar ).

Agree completley.

Yeah and (dark and voluptious) Basque gals are tres sexy IMO...much like Armenian gals...eh

[rabinovich]

Agree completley.

Yeah and (dark and voluptious) Basque gals are tres sexy IMO...much like Armenian gals...eh

wino, it's just impolite to tease people like that without actually offering anything

[ArmoBarbi]

Yeah, I get annoyed with it, but I have to use it since thats the only way I expect people to understand what I mean.

[rabinovich]

Yeah, I get annoyed with it, but I have to use it since thats the only way I expect people to understand what I mean.

So when you say "Caucasian", do you include Armenians in that?

[ArmoBarbi]

I'm not gonna take that as a serious question.

[rabinovich]

I'm not gonna take that as a serious question.

I honestly don't know, but I guess most Armenians won't fall in the category by American standards. Anyway, as I said it's a ridiculous and ambiguous term Pretty much like saying Scandinavian to mean all Central Asians, just because some Central Asian anthropologist found a pretty scull in Finland

[ArmoBarbi]

Caucasians by an educated American's standards are Caucazoids. That is anyone who isnt a Negroid or Mongoloid, although that system is old...

Anyway, it is complicated and is still being studied and debated. I, of course, consider Armenians Caucasian. Anything else is absurd.

[rabinovich]

Caucasians by an educated American's standards are Caucazoids. That is anyone who isnt a Negroid or Mongoloid, although that system is old...

Anyway, it is complicated and is still being studied and debated. I, of course, consider Armenians Caucasian. Anything else is absurd.

Yeah but the better term would be Eurasians or something. I mean Caucasus is a small piece of land, and many so-called "Caucasoids" have absolutely nothing to do with our mountains Am I right or what?

[ArmoBarbi]

or what lol

Yeah, like I told you, Caucasoid became famous because of the Georgian skull thing, not because all Caucasoids are believed to be from the Caucasus. lol

So yeah...you have the idea down.

Eurasian doesnt work - no matter which "Eurasia" you mean. The region Eurasia includes Turkestan (Central Asia) and such... The real Eurasia is a continent that includes Asia, which clearly isnt "Caucasian"

[rabinovich]

or what lol

Yeah, like I told you, Caucasoid became famous because of the Georgian skull thing, not because all Caucasoids are believed to be from the Caucasus. lol

So yeah...you have the idea down.

Eurasian doesnt work - no matter which "Eurasia" you mean. The region Eurasia includes Turkestan (Central Asia) and such... The real Eurasia is a continent that includes Asia, which clearly isnt "Caucasian"

Yeah there's no strict border though, you can find so many European-Asian mixes throughout Russia (Boris Yeltsin) and Central Asia and India etc. I have no idea how can they divide these in two - it's a real gradient, and any division would be arbitrary (if you base it on physical features, that is).

So I vote for one Eurasia as a race. As opposed to natives of Africa, Australia, and America Why am I not an anthropologist?