What cultural traits do Armenians share?

[Anonymouse]

Look - I think your better off just sticking to stormfront. Posts like these just illustrate to everyone here what a racist a*hole you are.

Posts like that just illustrate how you can't take a joke. By the way, I don't post on stormfront. I do post on sherdog.

[ArmoBarbi]

Whats sherdog? Similar to stormfront?

[Anonymouse]

No .

[ArmoBarbi]

No .

Answer both questions?

[rabinovich]

magdalinka,
Thank you. I have never been to an Armenian anything and am so happy to have a frame of reference. I'm going out right after posting this to rent "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." Any books, articles or films...anything that will give me a clue about Armenian culture/identity is so welcome!

Shoshan, watching a movie about Greeks in America, made by Americans, is really not the best way to learn about Armenian culture

Films - there's some nice ones, if you like arts and stuff like that, you can try Parajanov's films. Like "The Color of Pomegranates ", it's available on Amazon. Try searching "Armenian" on Amazon, it will bring some nice stuff (hopefully).

Sorry everyone for offtopic, I was trying to be helpful

[rabinovich]

Today my geography prof said that Hebrew is the source of Aramaic, which I do not agree with, but anyway... it reminded me of something I saw on the Russian channel a few months ago.

There was a show about Armenians in Israel, and an Armenian woman was talking about how Hebrew and Armenian are very similar (she speaks both), and went on to hypothesize that they are similar because they come from the same language - Aramaic. She said that she has spoken to linguists, and they agreed.

Am I the only one who thinks that this is balogna??? None of my research has ever suggested that Armenian and Hebrew have the same origin. Hebrew - Semitic group Armenian - Indo-European group....no same source

Armenian does have very old borrowings from semitic languages, from Aramaic too. Words like "shuka" for market, "targmanich" for translator, and some others I can't really remember now. But they are certainly not related languages.

And Armenians are certainly not Jews Although once in a while you see some striking similarities

[Anonymouse]

Answer both questions?

Yes .

[ArmoBarbi]

Yes .

no further comment

[Tres Bien]

Tres, how can you say that there is nothing similar between Judeism and Christianity??? One is based on the other historically.

If you are to insist and defend judaism so much i guess there are some simliarites between jews and armenians im sad to say.


If u should listen to the jews...then israel too was always jewish from the begninng.

Have i yunderstood it wrongly or is judism not infact the complete opposite to christianity , if you loook at the Old and New testamente History cannot justify anything, and certainly it cant justify how they are treating people today ,palestians first of all, and their racist ways.
Besides if you'd ask a jew he would never be on the side of an armenians no matter what.. in the conflict with Turkey or in karabahk...
that you fail to see how the sionist and religios jews defend this acts of crimes in Israel and the their politics against Armenia and you as an "armenian" are to defent the jews. I am sorry for you.

[magdalinka]

Today my geography prof said that Hebrew is the source of Aramaic, which I do not agree with, but anyway... it reminded me of something I saw on the Russian channel a few months ago.

There was a show about Armenians in Israel, and an Armenian woman was talking about how Hebrew and Armenian are very similar (she speaks both), and went on to hypothesize that they are similar because they come from the same language - Aramaic. She said that she has spoken to linguists, and they agreed.

Am I the only one who thinks that this is balogna??? None of my research has ever suggested that Armenian and Hebrew have the same origin. Hebrew - Semitic group Armenian - Indo-European group....no same source

i am sorry to disappoint you but armenian language has nothing in common with hebrew. and, actually it has nothing in commom (i dont mean separate words, which come to the language through trade, during envesions, etc.) with any language out there. eg: russian has several brunches(ukranian, slovakian, chekh, belorussian, polish etc.), so a person who speaks one can understand the other ones.