I have a problem??

[ArmoBarbi]

Its not about blood %, its about exposure I think. Im full Armenian, but I sound like a Russian Armenian. lol

[LadySilver]

Ya most Armenians know Russian. If I'm correct you speak Russian and Armenian, do you speak one more than the other or is it mixed?

[nairi]

@ karoaper: love nosy "Armenian" traits as much as you want. I, for one, could care less. As long as it doesn't bother you that some of us, Armenians, don't engage in such behavior and have trouble accepting it coming from others. I don't consider gossiping to be an Armenian trait. It's simply a bad habit. Get over it.

@ accents: we all have an accent in whatever language we speak. And certainly Armenian, there are zillions of accents. I can't stand people who try to fake an accent just to sound more "sophisticated", or try to force others to speak like them just because they like to believe that their accent or dialect is superior to all others. Get over it too.

[Seb]

Hey because you're really think just like this, you should be proud of yourself for being full Armenian, it hasn't to do of being half armenian, Don't care for what other people say, but you should answer to that lady even by few armenian words that gossiping doesn't suit for armenians...

[Dihya]

I agree! Having black friends does not necessarily mean "being trendy."



Your own path!

Yeah oh my gosh...to call it trendy is such an awfull thing! i grew up with people from all diffrent backgrounds!

i am very multicultural so are my friends!from Suriname, Armenia, Holland,Germany,Portugal,China, Indonesia, Italy, Morocco

so diffrent colors of skin! and no its not a trend i love them for who they are!
I find it quite scary that i hear stories about the US and the UK where they have groups! why only stick to your own race!

And For the topicstarter be proud of what you are, you share 2 cultures that makes you even richer then 1!Dont let a woman you dont know, ruin your day!ITS HER problem...that he makes a fuzz of it!

i wish you good look...i never knew there was such a things as LIL Armenia..near hollywood...ah i learned something new today!

[Lamb Boy]

I've read a bunch of posts from you (Siamanto and others) at this point and more often than not you seem to go right off the deep end in regards to your advice. Seems some people know how to live everybodies life but their own...or those who talk the most have the least to say. Pick either or better yet both and apply regularly to your person. Not trying to be a jerk but sheesh give it a rest oh pious one.

As far as this thread goes I think everybody here would be a hypocrite if they didn't already acknowledge that SOME Armenians look at each other with a "caste" sensibility. Depending on how close you are to the root of the "Armenian tree of life" the better. The older you are (in terms of what you grew up with and what you're used to tradition wise), the closer you are to Armenia geographically speaking, and what generation from Armenia you were born into partially determines your "Armenian worth". I know my Grandmother was pretty damn racists which my dad didn't really care for growing up in Queens!

I do not speak Armenian (shock waves sent through the forum proving my point j/k ... hopefully) as my dad and uncle understood Armenian when spoken ... actually my uncle didn't know how to speak english when he first went to school ... anyway for those of us living in the U.S. the prospect of being taught the Armenian language in a public school is seriously laughable. Maybe in Fresno or some private Armenian schools around the Detroit area if they even exist. Really knowing the language is just one of the main trials that the purists will gauge a fellow Armenian by.

I mean seriously folks people from other countries don't label countrymen, and women, diasporic whatevers just because they decided to leave their home country at a time when longevity of life was a primary concern! We do it all the time segregating ourselves from ourselves. Then we wonder why Armenian culture is dissolving so rapidly. We should all look at each other as brothers and sisters not distant strangers, where one group feels abandoned by the other. My grandparents didn't even leave Armenia when they left, they left from Iran where they had lived. Believe it or not, not every single Armenian before the holocaust actually lived in Armenia. Do you guys think at that time they viewed those who didn't live directly in Armenia as diasporic Armenians?

I'm rambling pce out sorry if you feel insulted Siamanto and others just trying to illustrate a point to advice pez dispensers.

[Diasporic] (not even a real usage of the word diaspora if I am correct although it gets thrown around this forum SOOO much that I'm sure it'll be in the next update for the english language/dictionary maybe we already got it in there! I am not really that close to a dictionary to check actually ... and yes I HATE the online ones so no I obviously didn't use one ... durh.)

[armenianteen]

wow i didn't know that SOME armenians could be mean like that. I live in IL and i'm my ethnicity is half armenian half irish and i don't speak armenian (i'm a freshmen in high school so thats part of the reason, but i dunno if i will want to learn it too(foriegn languages are really hard)). Also, all my friends have various different backgrounds (them individually) and all of our ancestors got here like in the 1900s-1910s. So i have never seen people act this, ignore them or.... tell them off (i don't recomend that but whatever if they deserve it).
(Those people would hate me, I act like a normal american teen, cause its all I know)

Also, is Glendale where all the armenians are in CA?

[Salpy]

well how about this,

im half armenian half mexican. i was raised in the US and dont speak armenian.

ive had my share of people talking too. and it does make me feel low, as if im not armenian. although im very much attatched to the armenian culture and wish i can respond when spoken to.

so dont feel too bad, at least you speak the language.

[Salpy]

i didnt realize this thread had six pages. i just read the first page.
poo.