Do you wish you were not Armenian?

[TJ]

Re: Do you wish you were not Armenian?

They have their share of fair-skinned people as well, but I suppose you're correct in saying they are dark-skinned.

Cyprus was okay... I would have rather gone to Greece instead.

no argument here. i hear greece is amazing by the way.

[jgk3]

Re: Do you wish you were not Armenian?

So you come from a family where your father hates his own nation and people, and your mom probably knows more about turkish culture than ARmenian and you dont even speak your own language yet you think you know of what descent we are. Im sure your mom and dad taught you quite well about our culture and history. (Just in case you dont get it, that last sentence is dripping with sarcasm.)

Goddamn, you're totally missing the point. I am the only one in the family that I know has made a true effort to learn about his culture. I am the one who has to yell at my fathers denouncing of his people, I'm the one who explains things I've learned from resources such as this site to my mother's family. I'm actively relearning my language, reading all the articles that the intellectuals on this site can provide about my heritage and people, and then you give me this kind of xxxx?

[TJ]

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Goddamn, you're totally missing the point. I am the only one in the family that I know has made a true effort to learn about his culture. I am the one who has to yell at my fathers denouncing of his people, I'm the one who explains things I've learned from resources such as this site to my mother's family. I'm actively relearning my language, reading all the articles that the intellectuals on this site can provide about my heritage and people, and then you give me this kind of xxxx?

i dont know what gives you the idea that there are intellectuals on this site. but bravo if your making an effort to be a true Armenian.(and that WASNT sarcasm). now just out of curiousity what exactly does your father say about us?

[crusader1492]

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Hi, im sorry for posting this but I wish I wasnt Armenian.

I was raised the only Armenian in my whole neighborhood, only Armenian in school. Never went to Armenian Church because parents were too busy.
I never met Any Armenians. Everyone in my family is married to J ewss. I thought Armenian was a form of being a J ew for a long time.
People say what are you? I say Armenian they say whats that?
They have made fun of my looks. Dark eyes, pale skin.

I have met Armenians at a club-they were so nasty and told me i cant be Armenian because i look too white.

I remember when i was 10, my mom gave me a book that said "I am Armenian"
i ripped it up into pieces
I just hate it. I wish I was Italian, Greek, I hate being Armenian. Its awful

Holy xxxx...you make me sick! Stop wallowing in self pity. You remind me of the trash people who star on MTV reality shows...petty, selfish, ignorant and sad. Are you pubesent? That would explain a lot. Otherwise, get your head out of your ass and get over yourself!

This goes for you too, hellenized persian.

[ace]

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This is a biproduct of assimilation - people who have given into the more seducing local culture.

But he's probably just a Turk thinking he can trick us all with this bullxxxx. I say we stick a pineapple up his ass.

edit: Maybe he's just ugly?

[jgk3]

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i dont know what gives you the idea that there are intellectuals on this site. but bravo if your making an effort to be a true Armenian.(and that WASNT sarcasm). now just out of curiousity what exactly does your father say about us?

Well, he commonly calls us horsethieves (especially the hayastantsi), says we deserved the genocide for standing up to the Turks (he is also a bolsahye by birth, yet his mother never bought those stupid Turkish lies, as she came from Bitlis). Just like many of the Armenians in this thread, my father went to public schools (when he came to Canada) where no one knew about Armenians, but since he had a fair complexion and blue eyes, he had an easy time assimilating with them anyway. My father could pass for any type of European except a Nordic looking one, as his father's Swiss genes could not eliminate the fact that he has a large Dinaric type nose.

So he found it easy to distance himself from Armenians in terms of the way many of them look, and got a chance to criticize the way they look: "That thieverish and unruly look".

Although he got to be assimilated during highschool, when college time arrived, he found himself among Armenians once again. He made friends with some he still laughs about today for the stupidities he used to do with them, but he resents them for "luring" him to play cards and fool around instead of going to class. I don't blame him, he spent 5 years in Cegep because of those stupidites when he could've been out in 2, and go straight to University (in Quebec, Cegep is an intermediary school between highschools and Colleges, which we call exclusively, Universities). He eventually got back on track when his application to University was accepted, but he had to do the equivalent of the 2 year program he was supposed to do in Cegep in a much shorter period of time, and that made him resent those Armenians a hell of a lot.

Sorry to give you his life story, I just wanted you to see what's behind his thinking.

Other things he says include, "If three Armenians have a discussion and share the exact same outlooks and give similar answers, they'll still end up fighting for no intelligent reason."

"Kurds, Armenians, same xxxx."

Just after the dissolution of the USSR, he was asked by someone who didn't know about Armenia, where it could be found on the globe. His reply, "Oh, you know those Baltic states, Lithuania, Estonia, etc... Yeah, you just go down, and down... and it's right there." The man replied, "Oh, yeah yeah, I gotcha." (I find this kinda funny actually).

And finally, to bash his Swiss ancestry, he says, "Thousand years of peace, and all they do is make cookoo clocks".

So when it all comes down to it, what really upsets me are his statements of how we deserved the Genocide and we should've been killed to extinction and how we are a disgraceful race. Otherwise, his statements just make me laugh.

[jgk3]

Re: Do you wish you were not Armenian?

And by intellectual people on the site, I mean those who engage in intellectual discussion and bring invaluable articles to our attention.

[TomServo]

Re: Do you wish you were not Armenian?

Your dad is quite the arsehole.

[Armenian]

Re: Do you wish you were not Armenian?

Your dad is quite the arsehole.

You beat me to it. This applies to most Bolsa-turks.

Pinkshiny: You are full of kaka.

[TJ]

Re: Do you wish you were not Armenian?

yeah no offense to you, and if somone said this about my family id be very very angry, but your dad is a stinking piece of xxxx.