Armenian Marriage

[Lamb Boy]

Although i get your point and agree with most of it, your GPA analogy fails. in most schools, an A+ (or an AP class) will contribute a 4.3 (or 4.0 + .05/class) to your GPA, meaning enough of those could get you back up to a 4.0. So let's see, if you were to marry a super armo who's like over 100% armo, then there's hope for your kids...such silliness
on a more serious note, do you actually think that those who claim to be 100% armo are indeed that? does such a thing exist? the exponential model is probably true of everyone because if you trace back far enough you'd notice that no one is 100% anything. just a thought...
and if this is true (which it is), the italian kid is right. if he keeps increasing the "italian-ness" of his family, somewhere down the line, in a few hundred yrs, the descendent would call himself a full Italian.

Ok well if at ANYTHING allows you to go over the 100% mark then obviously you can attain 100% and even over. So in college my GPA example still holds true unless some universities award marks higher than 100% which means they wouldn't be accredited to offer a degree in the first place.

Yeah it was silly but that was the point ... highlighting the silliness of "genetic purity". As you pointed out no one is 100% anything so why do ppl make such a big stink about keeping bloodlines within certain ethnic genetics? Silliness indeed ... Believe me I DO get it and would even be a willing participant in the whole purification process if the right Armenian woman came into my life But it is still funny how wound up ppl get about it.

Its crazy how much this reminds me of the thread I posted in the Intellectuals lounge about how we define ethnicity. Especially since ALL ethnic groups had a starting point. Check it out ...

[Anonymouse]

Ok well if at ANYTHING allows you to go over the 100% mark then obviously you can attain 100% and even over. So in college my GPA example still holds true unless some universities award marks higher than 100% which means they wouldn't be accredited to offer a degree in the first place.

Yeah it was silly but that was the point ... highlighting the silliness of "genetic purity". As you pointed out no one is 100% anything so why do ppl make such a big stink about keeping bloodlines within certain ethnic genetics? Silliness indeed ... Believe me I DO get it and would even be a willing participant in the whole purification process if the right Armenian woman came into my life But it is still funny how wound up ppl get about it.

Its crazy how much this reminds me of the thread I posted in the Intellectuals lounge about how we define ethnicity. Especially since ALL ethnic groups had a starting point. Check it out ...

Differences are in degrees, not in kinds. And while your occasional garden variety liberal zealot like winoman will throw a tantrum over it, that does not absolve anything.