Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!
Again, you misunderstand the point that is being made, maybe you will never understand, not now, not ever, but going to recap. Oxford is Oxford because there exist individual researching and pushing forward the progress, lifetime by lifetime. Microsoft is Microsoft because the act of creation that lead to Bill Gates birth occured in the United States. And even the possibility of a Bill Gates being born occurs via statistical chance. Out of many Bill Gates that were born, one, decided to drop out of Harvard and pursue the Software revolution, meaning, out of all the intellectual capital of the United States there existed only a handful that capitalized on a idea that eventually lead to economic and technological gains for the United States. Wealth was generated in the United States because there existed driven individuals that capitalized on ideas that lead to the wealth. What does this mean? This leads one to the conclusion that this idea of a "diaspora" and the emphasis on a "diaspora" is a figment of ones imagination, a monster created to mask the short comings of a people. You want to progress, you roll up your sleeves and work your hands to your bones, anything else only is a excuse. I can not stress how wrong this idea of a "diaspora" is, it only robs the national drive and strength of a nation, it tricks the citizens within Armenia to pursue their dreams outside the safety of their nation, eventually, this leads to centrafugal assimilation, anyone else claiming centrafugal assimilation can be "avoided" is just a big fat lier. Understand this absolute and move on, statistical odds are not on the side of the Diaspora, every generation drifts away from the center, but at the same time, they pull more and more people from the center (i.e Armenia) by their example. When you put up "Armenian-American xyz" as a success, Armenians in Armenia ask themselves what is the intrinsic motive to stay in Armenia, when in fact, you have "Armenian-American xyz" claiming to be a "progessive" and "instramental" in the development of the Armenian people, which begs the question, if you were in Armenia right now and you read your statement, what would keep you from staying in Armenia? I have asked myself this and I would not stay, if it was me and I saw that the Diaspora was robbing me of my identity and intrinsic motive, then, no, I would not stay, only a fool would stay given that circumstance, when your nationalistic drive is being hijacked by foreign nationals claiming to be citizens of the nation you reside in, certainly, there is something wrong here.
Originally posted by freakyfreaky
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